 | William Shakespeare - 1817 - 372 pagini
...the end, Having my freedom, boast of nothing eke, But that I was a journeyman to grief ?» Baling. O, 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 ? O, no! the apprehension of the good, Gives... | |
 | 1856 - 834 pagini
...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 pagini
...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 on...? Or wallow naked in December snow, By thinking on fantastick summer's heat ? 0, no ! the apprehension of the good, Gives but the greater feeling to the... | |
 | Mrs. Jamieson (Frances Thurtle) - 1820 - 538 pagini
...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... | |
 | Robert Fergusson - 1821 - 278 pagini
...Then happiness at length should reign ; The golden age begin again. OS THE COLD MONTH OF APRIL 1771. O ! 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 ! Shakespeare's Richard II. POETS in vain have... | |
 | Robert Fergusson, James Gray - 1821 - 292 pagini
...Then happiness at length should reign ; The golden age begin again. ON THE COLD MONTH OF APRIL 1771. O ! 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 ! Shatespeare'i Richard II. POETS in vain have... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1822 - 312 pagini
...we should use conception, and the words imagination and apprehension as (synonymous with each other. Who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the...By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December's snow, By thinking on fantastic summer's heat ; Oh no ! the apprehension of the good Gives... | |
 | 1822 - 640 pagini
...resist grief by reasoning upon its inutility, or conquer love by reflecting on its transitory nature — Who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the...hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast .' " Whip me under the gallows" the cold philosopher that would banish the Muses from his republic... | |
 | 1822 - 654 pagini
...resist grief by reasoning upon its inutility, or conquer love by reflecting on its transitory nature — Who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the...hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast ? Poetry of life and feeling to be extinct, let him for ever dwell " h ca/do, e 'n gteío," as Dante... | |
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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? 
