 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 544 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...By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December snow, By thinking on fantastick summer's heat ? O, no ! the apprehension of the good, Gives... | |
 | Robert Fergusson - 1812 - 292 trang
...should reign, And golden age begin again. ON TUB COLD MONTH OF APRIL, 1771. Oh ! who can hold ajire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ; Or...December's snow By thinking on fantastic Summer's heat ? • SHAKESP. RICHARD II. 1 OETS in vain have hail'd the op'ning spring, In tendfer accents woo'd... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1813 - 520 trang
...former of these phrases, and the words imagination and apprehension as synonymous with each other. -Who can hold a fire in his hand, By thinking on the...December's snow, By thinking on fantastic summer's heat ? Oh no ! the apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse. K. KICHAWJ JI. Act... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1813 - 476 trang
...: For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it, and sets it light. Bolini*. O, who can hold a fire in his hand, By thinking on...hungry edge of appetite, By bare imagination of a feast I Or wallow naked in December snow, By thinking on fantastic summer's beat? O, no ! the apprehension... | |
 | Robert Fergusson - 1815 - 348 trang
...Then happiness at length should reign, And golden age begin again. ON THE COLD MONTH OF APRIL, Oh ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the...December's snow, By thinking on fantastic summer's heat. SHAKES, RICH. H. POETS in vain have hail'd the op'ning spring, In tender aecents woo'd the blooming... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 trang
...power to bite The man that mocks at it, and sets it light. Thoughts ineffectual to moderate Affliction. O, who can hold a fire in his hand, By thinking on...By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December snow, By thinking on fantastic summer's heat ? O, no ! the apprehension of the good Gives... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1816 - 428 trang
...snarling Sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it, and sets it light. Eolingbroke. Oh, who can hold a fire in his hand. By thinking on the...By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December snow, By thinking on fantastic summer's heat ? Oh, no 1 the apprehension of the good Gives... | |
 | 1856 - 834 trang
...that Bolingbroke must have been a Circassian traveller, and spoke feelingly when he said — " Oh, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the...hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast ? " It was late on the following morning before we roused ourselves from the heavy slumbers consequent... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 424 trang
...dance : For gnarling 1 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...By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December snow, By thinking on fantastick summer's heat ? 0, no ! the apprehension of the good, Gives... | |
 | Mrs. Jamieson (Frances Thurtle) - 1820 - 538 trang
...WALLER.—" True; but Shakspeare never tires, for • he's always changing and for ever new." EDWARD.— " Oh who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the...appetite, By bare imagination of a feast? Or wallow in December snow, By thinking on fantastic summer's heat? Oh, no, the apprehension of the good Gives... | |
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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? Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat? 
