...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...

...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...

...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...

...fellow, And wish'd that others held the same opinion; Now my sere fancy " falls into the yellow Leaf," and Imagination droops her pinion, And the sad truth...to burlesque. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'T is that I may not weep; and if I weep, "T is that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy,...

...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...

...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...

...in recollection of his frequent exhibitions of unaffected hysteria, we accept his own confession — If I laugh at any mortal thing, "Tis that I may not weep, as a perfectly sincere comment on the most sincere, and therefore in many respects Jhe most effective,...

...recollection of his frequent exhibitions of unaffected hysteria, we accept his own confession — " If I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep " — ..is a perfectly sincere comment on the most sincere, and therefore in many respects the most...

...Manners of the Present Age. Ch. IV. The landlord's laugh was ready chorus. k. BURNS — Tarn o' Shunter. I. BYRON— Bora Juan. Canto IV. St. 4. How much lies in Laughter: the cipherkey, wherewith we decipher...

...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...