 | Robert Fergusson - 1773 - 344 trang
...Then happiness at length should reign; And golden age begin again. ON THE COLD MONTH OF APRIL, 1771. Oh ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on...By bare imagination of a feast ; Or wallow naked in December's snow, By thinking on fantastic summer's heat ? SHAKSPEARB'S Richard II. POETS in vain have... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 632 trang
...For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it, and sets it light. Boling. O, who can. hold a fire in his hand, By thinking on the...? Or wallow naked in December snow, By thinking on fantastick summer's heat? O, no! the apprehension of the good, Gives but the greater feeling to the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 trang
...For gnarling4 sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it, and sets it light. Boling. O, who can hold a fire in his hand. By thinking on the...? Or wallow naked in December snow, By thinking on fantastick summer's heat ? O, no ! the apprehension of the good, Gives but the greater feeling to the... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 trang
...of the wearer ! How many then should cover that stand bare I How many be commanded , that command I Oh , who can hold a fire in his hand , By thinking...By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December's snowy By thinking on fantastic summer's heat ? Oh , no ! the apprehension of the good Gives... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 480 trang
...For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it, and sets it light. Boling. O, who can hold a fire in his hand, By thinking on the...? Or wallow naked in December snow, By thinking on fantastick summer's heat ? O, no ! the apprehension of the good, Gives but the greater feeling to the... | |
 | E H. Seymour - 1805 - 504 trang
...not agree with the context. 37. " Faintly borne." Borne with feebleness or dejection of mind. 38. " - >Who can hold a fire in his hand, " By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ?" Sec. A sentiment resembling this occurs in Romeo and Juliet— " He that is stricken blind cannot... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 432 trang
...For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it, and sets it light. Baling. O, who can hold a fire in his hand, By thinking on the...? Or wallow naked in December snow, By thinking on fantastick summer's heat ? O, noj the apprehension of the good, Gives but the greater feeling to the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 356 trang
...hold a fire in his hand, &.c.~] Fire is here, as in many other places, used as a dissyllable. Malone. Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite, By bare imagination...feast? Or wallow naked in December snow, By thinking on fantastick summer's heat? O, no! the apprehension of the good, Gives but the greater feeling to the... | |
 | 1806 - 408 trang
...THOUGHTS ineff'cftual to moderate AFFLICTIONS. (SHAKESPEARE) OH, who can hold a fire in his hand, liy thinking on the frosty Caucasus ? . • • Or cloy...of appetite, .' .. By bare imagination of a feast I Or wallow naked in December snow, By thinking on fantastic summer's heat? Oh, no, the apprehension... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1806 - 884 trang
...master of nature, whose works every philosopher who reads them will often have occasion to quote. " Oh ! who can hold a fire in his hand, By thinking on the frosty Caucasus, &c." Nor is it fit it Philosophers, nevertheless, there are who assert that ihould. man mav ;n time... | |
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O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? 
