 | 1877 - 362 էջ
...SHAKESPERE, Julins Cœsar. Lata. — Better LATE than never — TCSSER, Points of Hushandry. Laugh, — And if I LAUGH at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep. — BYRON. Dun Juan. — A LACGH is worth a hundred groaus in any market. LAMR, Еssауs. — They... | |
 | Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth - 1878 - 764 էջ
...inspiring the soul to lofty emotions, and then arousing peals of laughter at some playful transition : And the sad truth, which hovers o'er my desk, Turns what was once romantic to burlesque. We have here the secret of his power : the sadness and the truth were still within his reach. As Pollok... | |
 | Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth - 1878 - 712 էջ
...soul to lofty emotions, and then arousing peals of laughter at some playful transition : And the sod truth, which hovers o'er my desk, Turns what was once romantic to burlesque. We have here the secret of his power : the sadness and the truth were still within his reach. As Pollok... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 648 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 not weep ; and if I weep, Tis that our nature cannot... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 650 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 not weep ; and if I weep, Tis that our nature cannot... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1880 - 630 էջ
...more mellow, And other mmds acknowledged my dominion. Now my sere fancy " falls into the yellow Leaf," and Imagination droops her pinion, And the sad truth...hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to hurlesque. IV. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep ; and if I weep, 'Tis that... | |
 | John Nichol - 1880 - 240 էջ
...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 the most effective,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1881 - 338 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 not weep ; and if I weep, 'Tis that our nature... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 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 not weep ; and if I weep, 'Tis that our nature... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1881 - 326 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 not weep ; and if I weep, 'Tis that our nature... | |
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And if I laugh at any mortal thing, Tis that I may not weep... 
