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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? O, no! the apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse.”
Provenance
- Source:
- King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 3.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- fbb287d8a807180340b19860ad1adcc06904d7a703fc1920b774d801ba88f708
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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