 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 680 pages
...mellow. And other minds acknowledged my dominion. Now my sere fancjr " falls into the yellow I.eaf, ' 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... | |
 | Samuel Arthur Bent - Anecdotes - 1882 - 638 pages
...world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel. Letter to Sir Horace Mann, 1770. " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep." BVRON: Don Juan, IV. 4. Walpole also wrote, "In my youth, I thought of writing a satire upon mankind;... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1882 - 1434 pages
...Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom. j. BOVEE— Summaries of Thought. Cheerfulneas. eeler Hoyt k. BVBON— Don Juan. Canto IV. St. 4. Cheerful at morn he wakes from short repose. Breathes the keen... | |
 | Autumn leaves - 1882 - 210 pages
...did perfume the air, Sacred and sweet was all I saw in her.' 2. ' A turn for punning, call it .' 3. ' And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once .' 4. ' Let me play the fool, With age and wrinkles let sage counsels come.' 5. ' Fare thee well, and... | |
 | Cesare Cantù - 1883 - 122 pages
...foundation of all religion. (2)"Now, my sere fancy falls into the yellow leaf, And imagination droops his pinion, And the sad truth, which hovers o'er my desk, Turns what was once romantic to burlesque." Don Juan, Canto 4. Only 50 copies of this poem were first intended to be printed for private circulation.... | |
 | Biography - 1883 - 778 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,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1884 - 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...And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may rfbt weep ; and if I weep, 'Tis that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, for we must steep... | |
 | Craufurd Tait Ramage - Quotations, Latin - 1884 - 694 pages
...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 - 690 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
