 | George Gilfillan - Authors, English - 1851 - 316 pages
...that of a fiend but resembles the neigh of a homeless steed. More truly than Byron might he say, " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'tis that I may not weep." For our parts, we love to see him, as he stands beside the boiling abyss of the French Revolution;... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1851 - 784 pages
...Leaf,' and Imagination droopi her pinion. And the ud truth which huvuri o'er my desk Turns what waa once romantic to burlesque : And If I laugh at any mortal thing, Tie that 1 may not weep ; and If I weep, 'Tie that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy,... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...by. Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt In soft adoption of another's sorrow. Aaron IIM. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may...that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, which we must steep First iu the icy depths of Lethe's spring, Ere what we kast wish to behold will... | |
 | Joseph Warren Fabens - Panama - 1853 - 414 pages
...the burlesque character of it exclusively ; I felt more in the condition of Byron, when he said — "And if I laugh at any mortal thing, Tis that I may not weep " "But," said I, with a jerk as it were, for I saw the necessity of calming Vale by a change of topic,... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1856 - 398 pages
...in town, I quoted one day to Rogers, as Shakspeare's, and as beautiful, the following lines : — " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep." * The next time we met, I found he had been in quest of the lines, thinking as I did of them, and it... | |
 | English literature - 1856 - 642 pages
...disjointed world and nature of ours, could its candour but overcome its caution, would echo the wail — And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep. We may add the expression of our personal belief, that in the most genial and humorous natures,tbe... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - Table-talk - 1856 - 434 pages
..." What a wonderful man that Shakespeare is ! how perfectly I now feel the truth of his words, — " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep ! " I happened to repeat to Mrs. N. what Moore had said ; upon which she observed, " Why, the passage... | |
 | Samuel Rogers, William Maltby - Classicists - 1856 - 372 pages
..." What a wonderful man that Shakespeare is ! how perfectly I now feel the truth of his words, — " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep" ! I happened to repeat to Mrs. N. what Moore had said ; upon which she observed, " Why, the passage... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1856 - 868 pages
...observations which he felt himself bound to make, to avoid giving anything like offence to any one. " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, ' Tis that I may not weep." Every one knew what the real meaning of the Bill was. It was a measure to settle and limit the prerogative... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1857 - 450 pages
...mellow. And other minds acknowledge! 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. IV. 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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Leaf,' and Imagination droops 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 not weep... 
