| 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... | |
| Robert Patterson, Recluse - 1817 - 340 páginas
...! thy fairy skill Can turn the IDEAL flood at will, * Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. . t Oh, who can hold a fire in his hand, By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ? Or cloy the hungty edge of appetite, By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December's snow, By thinking... | |
| 1817 - 254 páginas
...than Bolingbroke was willing to allow, when he asked him with such an air of confidence— , ____ Oh ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ? Or clog the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December snoir,... | |
| Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1817 - 578 páginas
...for the previous ones — from the quantity of kyan pepper which they had sprinkled upon each set ! ' (O, who can hold a fire in his hand ' By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ?') So terminated a transaction, as vexatious as it was unanticipated — and, perhaps, unprecedented.... | |
| 1817 - 236 páginas
...than Bolingbroke was wilIhv to' allow, when he asked him with such an air of confidence— . _ Oh ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus i Or clog the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast .' Or wallow naked in December... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1818 - 424 páginas
...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...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... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1819 - 424 páginas
...snarling Sorrow hath leas power to bite The man that mocks it, and sets it light. Bolingbroke. Oh, who can hold a fire in his hand, By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ? Or cloy the hungry edga of Appetite, By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December snow, By thinking on... | |
| Mrs. Jamieson (Frances Thurtle) - 1820 - 538 páginas
...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... | |
| William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens - 1820 - 348 páginas
...dance: 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?9 fore us, probably remembered that part of Lvly's Euphues, 1580, in which Euphnes exhorte... | |
| Robert Fergusson - 1821 - 278 páginas
...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...December's snow By thinking on fantastic Summer's heat ! Shakespeare's Richard II. POETS in vain have hail'd the opening Spring, In tender accents woo'd the... | |
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