 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1816 - 428 էջ
...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... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 էջ
...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... | |
 | 1856 - 834 էջ
...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... | |
 | Robert Patterson, Recluse - 1817 - 340 էջ
...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... | |
 | 1817 - 254 էջ
...Gaunt 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... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1817 - 578 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 էջ
...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,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens - 1820 - 348 էջ
...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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 232 էջ
...the purer page Of Smollet, Prior, Ariosto, Fielding, Who say strange things for so correct an age ; I once had great alacrity in wielding My pen, and liked...cant Would have provoked remarks which now it shan't. As boys love rows, my boyhood liked a squabble ; But at this hour I wish to part in peace, Leaving... | |
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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? 
