 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Anthologies - 1875 - 868 pages
...the sleeping images of things For the selection of the pausing judgment. — Doge of Venice, I. 2. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep. — BYRON : Don Juan. RICHARDSON had said; long before, — ; Indeed, it is to this deep concern that... | |
 | Bertha H. Buxton - 1876 - 454 pages
...stead." " I do believe you are laughing at something I don't understand," said Jennie, puzzled. ' " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep," As for Guy, instead of being pleased and sympathetic when he heard of Jennie's good fortune, he behaved... | |
 | Bertha H. Buxton, Jennie - 1876 - 316 pages
...stead." " I do believe you are laughing at something I don't understand," said Jennie, puzzled. " ' And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep,' " said the little mother, and would say no more, As for Guy, instead of being pleased and sympathetic... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1877 - 362 pages
...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 - Ballads - 1878 - 764 pages
...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... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1878 - 636 pages
...acknowledged my dominion. Now my sere fancy " falls into the yellow Leaf," and Imagination droops her pmion, And the sad truth which hovers o'er 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 th'at our nature... | |
 | Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth - Ballads, English - 1878 - 712 pages
...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... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1880 - 630 pages
...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 pages
...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,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 654 pages
...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...that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, fof we must steep Our hearts first in the depths of Lethe's spring, Ere what we least wish to behold... | |
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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... 
