 | William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine - 2011 - 352 pągines
...gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light. 300 BOLINGBROKE O, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the...imagination of a feast? Or wallow naked in December snow 305 By thinking on fantastic summer's heat? O no, the apprehension of the good Gives but the greater... | |
 | John Baxter - 2005 - 272 pągines
...power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light. Bol. O, who can hold a fire in his hand 295 By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry...December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat? 300 O no, the apprehension of the good Gives but greater feeling to the worse. Fell sorrow's tooth... | |
 | Laurie E. Maguire - 2006 - 214 pągines
...Shakespearean advice: see things differently and they will become different. But Bolingbroke resists it: "Who can hold a fire in his hand / By thinking on...December snow / By thinking on fantastic summer's heat?" (1.3.294-99). He has a point. (I might add, however, that as an impecunious and hungry graduate student... | |
 | Timothy Rosendale - 2007
...is a thorough statement of imaginative representation's impotence in the face of hard realities: O, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the...Fell Sorrow's tooth doth never rankle more Than when he bites, but lanceth not the sore. (i.iii.294—303) reality, signifier and signified. But rather... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2007 - 1280 pągines
...gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light. HENRY BOLINGBROKE. O, e start he bites, but lanceth not the sore. JOHN OF GAUNT. Come, come, my son, I'll bring thee on thy way:... | |
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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? 
