 | David Grene - Drama - 1988 - 176 pages
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 | François Jost, Melvin J. Friedman - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 300 pages
...thee. But thou the King — , (1.3.278-80) calling for Bolingbroke's own show of dialectical skills: O, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on...By bare imagination of a feast? Or wallow naked in the December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat? (1.3.294-99) Shakespeare uses the commonplaces... | |
 | James Boyd White - Family & Relationships - 1994 - 348 pages
...power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light. [I.iii.282-93.]" But Bolingbroke responds: O, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on...Fell sorrow's tooth doth never rankle more Than when he bites, but lanceth not the sore. [I.iii.294-303.| Here, as we shall see him do in the deposition... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 884 pages
...For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light. BOLINGBROKE O, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on...summer's heat? O no, the apprehension of the good 300 Gives but the greater feeling to the worse. Fell sorrow's tooth doth never rankle more Than when... | |
 | Murray Cox, Alice Theilgaard - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 482 pages
...Bolingbroke, who diminished the power of imagination. Normotic patients show the same tendency (see p.276). 'O, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on...December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat?' (Richard 7/I.3.294) 'This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill; cannot be good: If ill, why hath it... | |
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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? 
