 | Roden Noel - 1890 - 272 pages
...Greece," too, are here, with their comical birth out of, and relapse into, buffoonery. But he says : — " If I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep." And that he has " Nothing planned, Except to be a moment merry." Life, after all, is half comic, half tragic... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1891 - 752 pages
...And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque. IV. And if Т it imj.ins one or the o»hcr, or what it means at nil. has b Tiling Itself to apathy, for we must steep Our hearts first in the depth of Lethe's spring, Ere what... | |
 | Samuel Longfellow - 1891 - 492 pages
...just in sentiment or calculated to work permanent benefit. Besides, rest assured, my dear sir, that "if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'tis that I may not weep;" and I should not have ventured so far had I not felt some of the freedom of an old acquaintance, since... | |
 | Giuseppe Mazzini - 1891 - 356 pages
...the feet of the first people that had arisen in the name of the nationality and liberty he loved. * " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep." I know no more beautiful symbol of the future destiny and mission of art than the death of Byron in... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1892 - 324 pages
...her pinion, And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may...that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, for we must steep Our hearts first in the depths of Lethe's spring, Ere what we least wish to behold... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 pages
...the fount of tears is that of laughter also, and that to open one sluice is to shut off the other: b j j j efj hS+ Richardson, however, had said long before,— Indeed, it is to this deep concern that my levity is... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1893 - 696 pages
...her pinion, And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may...that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, for we must steep Our hearts first in the depths of Lethe's spring, Ere what we least wish to behold... | |
 | Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais - 1893 - 146 pages
...excellent edition of this play, quotes most appositely from Byron, Don Juan, Canto IV., Stanza 4: — And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep . . . 6 se sauver has almost entirely lost its original sense of : saving one's self by escape, and... | |
 | Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais - 1893 - 134 pages
...excellent edition of this play, quotes most appositely from Byron, Don Juan, Canto IV., Stanza 4: — And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep . . . 6 se sauver has almost entirely lost its original sense of : saving ont' s self by escape, and... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 860 pages
...her pinion, And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, Tis that I may...that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, for we must steep Our hearts first in the depths of Lethe's springy 1C re what we least wish to behold... | |
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And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep ; and if I weep, 'Tis that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, for we must steep Our... 
