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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? "
Macbeth. King John. King Richard II.-v. 2. King Henry IV. King Henry V.-v. 3 ... - Page 211
by William Shakespeare - 1807
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Is Inheritance Legitimate?: Ethical and Economic Aspects of Wealth Transfers

Guido Erreygers, Toon Vandevelde - Business & Economics - 1997 - 256 pages
...what we consume. As Bolingbroke says in Shakespeare's Richard II (Act I. Ill): 0 who can hold afire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or...feast? Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer 's heat? Who indeed? And there are likewise narrow limits on the creation of wealth...
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William Shakespeare, Richard II

Martin Coyle - Drama - 1999 - 196 pages
...recognises the power to remake the referent in accordance with the signifier as precisely imaginary: O, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on...feast? Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat? (I.iii.294-9) But if Bolingbroke recognises the differance that Richard has...
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A History of the Mind: Evolution and the Birth of Consciousness

Nicholas Humphrey - Medical - 1999 - 244 pages
...that he can always find solace in remembering or thinking about happier days. Bolingbroke replies: O1 who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the...feast? Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat?17 O no, he says, a memory or a thought provides no comfort at all when the...
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Richard II

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 270 pages
...For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light. BOLLINGBROKE O who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the...feast? Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat? O no, the apprehension of the good 300 Gives but the greater feeling to the...
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How We Got Here: The 70's: The Decade that Brought You Modern Life (For ...

David Frum - History - 2008 - 450 pages
...the Desiderata.36 The Desiderata! Imagine Thaw cheering himself up with that! O who can hold afire in his hand by thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or...by bare imagination of a feast? Or wallow naked in December's snow by thinking on fantastic summer's heat?37 But guess what? It worked. Whatever hesitations...
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The Tragedy of King Richard the Second

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 164 pages
...gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite 292 The man that mocks at it and sets it light. 293 BOLINGBROKE O, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on...frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite 296 By bare imagination of a feast? 297 Or wallow naked in December snow 299 By thinking on fantastic...
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The Wisdom of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - Quotations, English - 2002 - 244 pages
...Corin—AYLI IILii Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour. John of Gaunt — Richard II I. in O, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on...feast? Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat? O, no! the apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse:...
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Lectures on Shakespeare

Wystan Hugh Auden - Drama - 2002 - 428 pages
...the style of gods And made a push at chance and sufferance. [Much Ado About Nothing, Vi35-38] (28) O, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on...hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast [Richard II, 1. iii. 294-97] (29) All things that are Are with more spirit chased than enjoyed. How...
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A Nest of Magpies

Sybil Marshall - Fiction - 1994 - 486 pages
...is little less in joy Than hope enjoyed.' 'I can cap that with a contradiction from the same source: O who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the...edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?' He stopped, and came close again. That puts it in a nutshell. I'm hungry. I've been hungry for thirty-five...
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William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1989 - 1286 pages
...that mocks at it and sets it light. HENRY BOLINGBROKE. O, who can hold a fire in his hand By flunking . FATHER. Thou that so stoutly hast resisted me, Give...For I have bought it with an hundred blows. — B fantastic summer's heat? O, no! the apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse:...
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