| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1884 - 654 էջ
...mellow, And other minds acknowledged my dominion ; Now my sere fancy ' falls into the yellow Leaf,' and Imagination droops her pinion, And the sad truth...my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may rfbt weep ; and if I weep, 'Tis that our nature... | |
| Craufurd Tait Ramage - 1884 - 690 էջ
...fact I must not lead the life I do." And again: — " Now my sere fancy ' falls into the yellow Leaf,' and imagination droops her pinion: And the sad truth,...desk, Turns what was once romantic to burlesque." THE WORN-OUT STEED. Re wise and release from the chariot in time thy aged steed, lest he become the... | |
| Craufurd Tait Ramage - 1884 - 694 էջ
...fact I must not lead the life I do." And again: — " Now my sere fancy ' falls into the yellow Leaf,' and imagination droops her pinion: And the sad truth,...desk, Turns what was once romantic to burlesque." THE WORN-OUT STEED. Re wise and release from the chariot in time thy aged steed, lest he become the... | |
| Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais - 1884 - 194 էջ
...edition, although it is added here from the later ones. 1. 32. Cf. Byron's Don Juan, Canto iv, stanza iv: — ' And if I laugh at any mortal thing, "Tis that I may not weep,' etc. P. 85, 1. 8. M. Vitu finds here another resemblance to Regnard's Folies Amoureuses : — ' Lisette... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1885 - 290 էջ
...more mellow, Andotherminds acknowledged mydominion: Now my sere fancy "falls into the yellow Leaf,"* and Imagination droops her pinion, And the sad truth...my desk Turns what was once romantic 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... | |
| Samuel Longfellow - 1886 - 478 էջ
...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 - 1887 - 408 էջ
...bosom of the North, So shall a better spring less bitter fruit bring forth." * Written in Italy. t " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, "Tis that I may not weep." and whose grand and mysterious form, transfigured by time, reappears from age to age, between the entombment... | |
| Giuseppe Mazzini - 1887 - 380 էջ
...bosom of the North, So shall a better spring less bitter fruit bring forth." * Written in Italy. tl( And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep." and whose grand and mysterious form, transfigured by time, reappears from age to age, between the entombment... | |
| John Lothrop Motley - 1889 - 452 էջ
...have been playing with edge tools ever since the beginning of January, and somebody may get hurt. " If I laugh at any mortal thing 'tis that I may not weep," and I feel more like crying, a good deal, when I am writing to you. We miss you more and more every day,... | |
| Friedrich von Westenholz - 1890 - 72 էջ
...und Dichten Byrons eignenden Zug erkennt, zu dessen treffender Charakterisierung er auf die Verse: „And if I laugh at any mortal thing T'is that I may not weep." (Don Juan, IV, 4.) hinweist. Als Kundgebungen eines gesunden Humors erscheinen uns vielmehr Bemerkungen... | |
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