| William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens - 1820 - 348 pages
...hold a fire in his hand, &c.] Fire is here, as in many other places, used as a dissyllable. Malone. Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite. By bare imagination...to the worse: Fell sorrow's tooth doth never rankle morei Than when it bites, but lanceth not the sore. Gaunt. Come, come, my son, I '11 bring thee on... | |
| 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...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... | |
| Robert Fergusson, James Gray - 1821 - 292 pages
...Then 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...By bare imagination of a feast ! Or wallow naked in December's snow By thinking on fantastic Summer's heat ! Shatespeare'i Richard II. POETS in vain have... | |
| Robert Fergusson - 1821 - 278 pages
...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...By bare imagination of a feast ! Or wallow naked in December's snow By thinking on fantastic Summer's heat ! Shakespeare's Richard II. POETS in vain have... | |
| Alexander Jamieson - 1822 - 312 pages
...we should use conception, and the words imagination and apprehension as (synonymous with each other. Who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the...By 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... | |
| 1822 - 640 pages
...resist grief by reasoning upon its inutility, or conquer love by reflecting on its transitory nature — Who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the...hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast .' " Whip me under the gallows" the cold philosopher that would banish the Muses from his republic... | |
| 1822 - 654 pages
...resist grief by reasoning upon its inutility, or conquer love by reflecting on its transitory nature — Who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the...hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast ? Poetry of life and feeling to be extinct, let him for ever dwell " h ca/do, e 'n gteío," as Dante... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1822 - 572 pages
...phrases» and the words imagination and apprr/ie»•ion as synonymous with each other. Who can hold a (ire in his hand, By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ?...By bare imagination of a feast? Or wallow naked in December's snow, tly thinking on fantastic summer's heat ? O!i no! the apprehension of the good Gire»... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1823 - 984 pages
...com'st: Suppose the singing birds, musicians ; The grass whereon thou tread'st, the presence! strewM ; there repose ; a turn or two I'll walk, To still...cleave to; What's thy pleasure I Pro. Spirit, We must December's snow. By thinking on fantastic summer's heat? < ), no ! the apprehension of the good, Gives... | |
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