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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? Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat? "
Sketch of the life of Shakespeare. Tempest. Two Gentlemen of Verona. Merry ... - Page 366
by William Shakespeare - 1848
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The Works of William Shakspere

William Shakespeare - English drama - 1868 - 786 pages
...: For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it, and sets it light.] Baling. heatî O, no ! the apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse : Fell sorrow's...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: With a Life of the Poet

William Shakespeare - 1869 - 1046 pages
...For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it, and sets it light. Baling. 0 ! X= it1 bites, but lanceth not the sore. Gaunt. Come, come, my son, I '11 bring thee on thy way : Had I...
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Greek verse composition, a revised ed. of the Greek verses of Shrewsbury ...

Shrewsbury sch - 1869 - 250 pages
...dance; For gnarling 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...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 complete works of Shakspere, with a memoir, and essay, by ..., Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1870 - 740 pages
...dance : For gnarling 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...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 Tragedy of King Richard II.

William Shakespeare - 1871 - 216 pages
...gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light. C Bolingbroke. O, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on...December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat ? O, no ! the apprehension of the good joo Gives but the greater feeling to the worse : Fell sorrow's...
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Sermons to the Natural Man

William Greenough Thayer Shedd - Presbyterian Church - 1871 - 452 pages
...denying its existence ?* Will the mere calling men good at heart, and by nature make them such ? " Who can hold a fire in his hand, By thinking on the...wallow naked in December snow, By thinking on fantastic summer heat ?" ' 2. In the second place, we remark that it is the duty of every one, not to be discouraged...
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and ...

John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...II. All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Act i. Sc. 3. O, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on...December snow, By thinking on fantastic Summer's heat. O, no ! the apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse. Act i. Sc. 3. This...
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The Shakespeare argosy, containg much of the wealth of Shakespeare's wisdom ...

William Shakespeare - 1874 - 310 pages
...stroke Between thy begging and my meditation. I am not in the giving vein to-day. IMPOSSIBILITIES [361]. O, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on...December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat ? O, no ! the apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse : Bolingbroke. Richard...
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First (-Sixth) illustrated reader

Illustrated reader - 1874 - 408 pages
...the wearer ; How many then should cover that stand bare ! How many bo commanded, that command ! Oh, who can hold a fire in his hand, By thinking on the...December snow, By thinking on fantastic summer's heat ; Oh, no ! the apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse ; Fell sorrow's...
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The Epigrammatists: A Selection from the Epigrammatic Literature of Ancient ...

Henry Philip Dodd - Epigrams - 1875 - 768 pages
...of possession, in the well-known passage in " Richard II." (Act I. so. 3), where Bolingbroko says: O, who can hold a fire in his hand, By thinking on...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...
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