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 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1816 - 428 pages
...For 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,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...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 the frosty Caucasus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite, By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December snow,... | |
 | Robert Patterson, Recluse - 1817 - 340 pages
...nymph ! 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,... | |
 | 1856 - 834 pages
...believe 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 frosty Caucasus ; Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast ? " It was late on the following morning... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1817 - 578 pages
...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.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 424 pages
...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 the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite, By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December snow,... | |
 | Mrs. Jamieson (Frances Thurtle) - 1820 - 538 pages
...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 frosty Caucasus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite, By bare imagination of a feast? Or wallow in December snow, By thinking... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens - 1820 - 348 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?9 fore us, probably remembered that part of Lvly's Euphues, 1580, in which Euphnes exhorte... | |
 | Robert Fergusson - 1821 - 278 pages
...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 the frosty Caucasus ! Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast ! Or wallow naked in December's snow... | |
 | Robert Fergusson, James Gray - 1821 - 292 pages
...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 the frosty Caucasus ! Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast ! Or wallow naked in December's snow... | |
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