...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...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...

...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...

...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...

...gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light. HENRY BOLINGBROKE. d he start he bites, but lanceth not the sore. JOHN OF GAUNT. Come, come, my son, I'll bring thee on thy way:...

...rejoinder 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...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...