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Gems of genius; or, Words of the wise: a collection of the most pointed ... - Page 47
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The Works of William Shakespeare: In Nine Volumes, Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1810 - 454 pages
...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...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...
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Aphorisms from Shakespeare

William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft - 1812 - 544 pages
...frozen Caucasus ; Or bate the fang of stern December's snow By thinking of fantastic Summer's beat ; Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite ' By bare imagination of a feast. The apprehension of a banisht good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse. 377. GRIEF SILENT. Fell...
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind

Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1813 - 520 pages
...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...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...
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1813 - 476 pages
...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...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...
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The Poems of Robert Fergusson: in Two Parts. To which is Prefixed ..., Volume 1

Robert Fergusson - Scotland - 1815 - 348 pages
...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...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...
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The Augustan review, Volume 1

1815 - 930 pages
...aspirants to exotic fame and pleasure, rarely find that they can •gratify their curiosity by deputy, or " cloy the hungry edge of appetite, by bare imagination of a feast." — This is not a political, a philosophical, a classical, a sentimental, or a pittoresque tour ; it...
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Elements of Criticism, Volume 1

Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1816 - 428 pages
...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...snow, By thinking on fantastic summer's heat ? Oh, no 1 the apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse. King Richard II. Act I....
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Elegant extracts in poetry, Volume 2

Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...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...December snow, By thinking on fantastic summer's heat ? O, no ! the apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse: Fell sorrow's tooth...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections ..., Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1817 - 372 pages
...boast of nothing eke, But that I was a journeyman to grief ?» Baling. O, who can hold a fire in his hand, By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ? Or cloy...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...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 80

England - 1856 - 834 pages
...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...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...
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