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Page 287 - 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?
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Page 510 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why ? Detraction will not suffer it : — therefore I'll none of it: Honour is a mere 'scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
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| Title | Elements of Criticism, Volume 1 Elements of Criticism, Lord Henry Home Kames |
| Author | Lord Henry Home Kames |
| Publisher | J. Bell and W. Creech, 1788 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 14 Jun 2008 |
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