 | Robert Fergusson - 1812 - 292 páginas
...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...bare imagination of a feast ; Or wallow .naked in December's snow By thinking on fantastic Summer's heat ? • SHAKESP. RICHARD II. 1 OETS in vain have... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1813 - 520 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1813 - 476 páginas
...: 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 páginas
...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...By bare imagination of a feast; Or wallow naked in December's snow, By thinking on fantastic summer's heat. SHAKES, RICH. H. POETS in vain have hail'd... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 páginas
...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...? Or wallow naked in December snow, By thinking on fantastic summer's heat ? O, no ! the apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1816 - 428 páginas
...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...? Or wallow naked in December snow, By thinking on fantastic summer's heat ? Oh, no 1 the apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1817 - 372 páginas
...passages; and in 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...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...flowers, fair ladies ; and thy steps, no more Than a delightful measure, or a dance : For gnarling 1 sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks...December snow, By thinking on fantastick summer's heat ? 0, no ! the apprehension of the good, Gives but the greater feeling to the worse : Fell sorrow's... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens - 1820 - 348 páginas
...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...to the worse: Fell sorrow's tooth doth never rankle morei Than when it bites, but lanceth not the sore. Gaunt. Come, come, my son, I '11 bring thee on... | |
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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? 
