 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 544 pages
...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 frosty Caucasus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite, By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December snow,... | |
 | Anna Seward - Authors, English - 1811 - 454 pages
...left England. To be sure Shakespeare's exclamation questions the power of such sort of comfort : " OI who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ! " but then a Sirocco wind on the banks of the Tagus and actual cautery are two things. Adieu ! LETTER... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 534 pages
...For gnarlingt 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 frosty Cancasus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite, By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in... | |
 | James Grey Jackson - 1811 - 388 pages
...back-ground, seem to cool the parched and weary traveller reposing in the plains ; for although none " Can hold a fire in his hand, " By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ;" SHAKSPEARB. yet, in the sultry season, the traveller, by viewing these mountains, experiences an... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 454 pages
...For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it, and sets it lightJ Baling. 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's snow,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft - 1812 - 544 pages
...and Justice strike, Lament we may, but not avenge the dead. 376- IMAGINATION — WHERE INEFFECTUAL. Who can hold a Fire in his hand By thinking on the frozen Caucasus ; Or bate the fang of stern December's snow By thinking of fantastic Summer's beat... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1813 - 476 pages
...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 the frosty Caucasus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite, By bare imagination of a feast I Or wallow naked in December snow,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1813 - 520 pages
...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 frosty Caucasus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite, By bare imagination of a feast ? / Or wallow naked in December's... | |
 | Robert Fergusson - Scotland - 1815 - 348 pages
...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 frosty Caucasus ; Or 'cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast; Or wallow naked in December's snow,... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1816 - 428 pages
...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 frosty Caucasus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of Appetite, By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December snow,... | |
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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? 
