| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 psl.
...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... | |
| 1817 - 254 psl.
...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... | |
| Robert Patterson, Recluse - 1817 - 340 psl.
...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... | |
| 1856 - 834 psl.
...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... | |
| Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1817 - 578 psl.
...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,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1818 - 424 psl.
...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... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1819 - 424 psl.
...measure, or a dance. j For 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... | |
| Mrs. Jamieson (Frances Thurtle) - 1820 - 538 psl.
...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... | |
| William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens - 1820 - 348 psl.
...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... | |
| Robert Fergusson, James Gray - 1821 - 292 psl.
...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... | |
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