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Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society - Page 13
by Massachusetts Horticultural Society - 1879
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Travels Through Sweden, Finland, and Lapland, to the North Cape ..., Volume 1

Giuseppe Acerbi - 1802 - 448 pages
...knowledge might have been .enereafed, but his creative fancy could not have been affifted :—r Oh! who can hold a fire in his hand, By thinking of the frofty Caucafus ? Or wallow naked in December (how, By thinking on fantaftic fummer's heat ? CHAPTER...
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Travels Through Sweden, Finland, and Lapland, to the North Cape ..., Volume 1

Giuseppe Acerbi - 1802 - 442 pages
...knowledge might have been jcncreafed, but his creative fancy could not have been affifted : — Oh ! who can hold a fire in his hand, By thinking of the frofty Caucafus ? Or wallow naked in December fnow, By thinking on fantaftic fummer's heat ? CHAPTER...
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Annual Register, Volume 44

Edmund Burke - 1803 - 892 pages
...a B3 might might have been increased, but his creative fancy could not ha\* been assisted :— Oh ! who can hold a fire in his hand, By thinking of the frosty Caucasus ? Or wallow naked in December snow, By thinking on fantastic summer's heat? Manners and Characters...
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Annual Register, Volume 44

Edmund Burke - 1803 - 1298 pages
...B 3 might might have been increased, but his creative fancy could not have been assisted: — Oh ! who can hold a fire in his hand, By thinking of the frosty Caucasus ? Or Callow naked in December snow, By thinking on fantastic summer's heat? Manners and Characters...
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Annual Register of World Events, Volume 44

1803 - 866 pages
...Celsios. 3B3 . might have been increased,- but his creative fancy could not liave been assisted : — Oh ! who can hold a fire in his hand, By thinking of the frnsty Caucasus? Or wallow naked in December snow, By thinking on fantastic summer's heat ? Manners...
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The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 91

1823 - 832 pages
...to the ground, — the spark must ignite the gunpowder, — the laws of nature must be obeyed : For who can hold a fire in his hand, By thinking of the frosty Caucasus ? Montesquieu has said, that honour is the principle of a monarchy : but Mr Hunt, who knows better,...
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De Vere: Or, The Man of Independence, Volume 3

Robert Plumer Ward - 1827 - 284 pages
...mind. Perhaps, however, the same master you speak of, taught him to answer himself — - • ' ' ' Oh ! who can hold a fire in his hand, By thinking of the frosty Caucasus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite, By bare imagination of a feast.'" Both the gentlemen here became...
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De Vere: Or, The Man of Independence, Volume 3

Robert Plumer Ward - 1827 - 422 pages
...of his mind. Perhaps, however, the same master'you speak of, taught him to answer himself — ' Oh ! who can hold a fire in his hand, By thinking of the frosty Caucasus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite, By bare imagination of a feast ?' " Both the gentlemen here...
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Sketches from Life, Parts 1-2

Laman Blanchard - 1846 - 410 pages
...no rational doubt that the words have the whip in them. It is of no use to quote Shakspeare — Oh ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking of the frosty Caucasus .' Shakspeare puts fine truths into some particular mouth which they well become, and we falsify them...
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Ainsworth's magazine: a miscellany of romance, general literature ..., Volume 25

1854 - 562 pages
...strives to call forth and exercise the imagination of the Sombretonians ; for any man who could . . Hold a fire in his hand By thinking of the frosty Caucasus, might perhaps be able, with a deal of practice, to read a book in royal type with a Sombreton gas-light...
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