Thinking. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Thinking


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? Shakespeare.—King Richard II., Act I. Scene 3. (Bolingbroke to Gaunt.) The wife of Bath’s tale. Prol. Line 6721.	1
Thinking is but an idle waste of thought; For nought is every thing, and every thing is nought. Smith.—Rejected Addresses; imitation of Lord Byron.	2
So in this way of writing without thinking, Thou hast a strange alacrity in sinking. Dorset.—Sat. on Edward Howard.	3
I have a kind of alacrity in sinking. Shakespeare.—Merry Wives of Windsor, Act III. Scene 5. (Falstaff.)	4