 | 1804 - 452 pages
...ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step below the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime. Perhaps Gray might have iu his mind, when he conceived the idea of his bard, the language of Milton,... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1807 - 606 pages
...sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and...step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again." May I venture to illustrate this opinion ? Would it not appear the ridiculous or burlesque, to describe... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1819 - 758 pages
...sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and...step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again: the account however, abstracted from the poetical fancy, shews the ignorance of Joshua, for he should... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1824 - 536 pages
...sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and...step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again." May I venture to illustrate this opinion? Would it not appear the ridiculous or burlesque to describe... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1824 - 420 pages
...sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiclous makes the sublime again : the account, however, abstracted from the poetical fancy, shews... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1827 - 186 pages
...sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above tha ridiculous makes the subli.ne ag,ln : the account, however, abstracted from the poetical fancy,... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1832 - 400 pages
...sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and...step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again : the account, however, abstracted from the poetical fancy, shows the ignorance of Joshua, for he should... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1833 - 392 pages
...nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime vOL. III. 2* makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.' May I venture to illustrate this opinion 1 Would it not appear the ridiculous or burlesque, to describe... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1834 - 394 pages
...sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and...step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again." May I venture to illustrate this opinion ? Would it not appear the ridiculous or burlesque to describe... | |
 | James Smith - 1843 - 728 pages
...sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and...step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again; the account, however, abstracted from the poetical fancy, shows the ignorance of Joshua, for he should... | |
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The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again... 
