...her pinion. And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk 24 Turns what was once romantic to burlesque. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may...if I weep, 'Tis that our nature cannot always bring 28 Itself to apathy, for we must steep Our hearts first in the depths of Lethe's spring, Ere what we...

...uncomfortable man in the author of Don Juan; the very writing of it is part of the attempt to cheer himself up. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, Tis that I may not weep. The switches and reversals of mood are not so much the result of a critical check upon his emotion,...

...Then why'd you laugh when you left me there? VELMA. To keep from crying. (Dramatically noble.) "For if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'tis that I may not weep." OTIS. Shakespeare. VELMA. Tennyson. MOONEY. Bullshit. OTIS. Count to ten, Velma. VELMA. (Winces.) I...

...reading of experience. Ionesco has declared that comedy may well produce tears. We remember Byron's "And if I laugh at any mortal thing, / Tis that I may not weep," and Shelley's "Our sincerest laughter / With some pain is fraught." The most that we can say for laughter...

...in The Age of Bronze. 19 Thus he strikes basically the same pose as Byron when he says in Don Juan: 'and if I laugh at any mortal thing, / 'Tis that I may not weep'. 80 These lines explain the reason for the irony of Don Juan and apply equally well to Magrico. It is...

...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. . . . [4.3-4] Byron goes on to defend his strange and complex point of view and the art form that has...

...sad face and wondered if she had ever read Byron's Don Juan and, if so, had she paused at the line And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'tis that I may not weep. 18 On the way to the airport, Michael loosened his tie and was relieved to discover that the constriction...

...bosom of the North, So shall a better spring less bitter fruit bring forth.' 1 Written in Italy. 3 'And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.' his 'death a victory.' When he heard the cry of nationality and liberty burst forth in the land he...

...Barbier de Seville, act 1 , se. 2 (1 775). Byron expressed a similar idea in Don ¡uan cto. 4, st. 4: "And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep." Nothing can confound A wise man more than laughter from a dunce. GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON, ÓTH BARON...

...is full of tears. The modern Pierrot is defined by the paradox that Lord Byron had already stated: "And if I laugh at any mortal thing, Tis that I may not weep." The state of world and society (Schonberg's "price of grain") is experienced as such that the sensitive...