 | John Morley - 1894 - 468 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 " — ..is a perfectly sincere comment on the most sincere, and therefore in many respects the most... | |
 | John Nichol - 1894 - 240 pages
...in 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 Jhe most effective,... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 pages
...Manners of the Present Age. Ch. IV. The landlord's laugh was ready chorus. k. BURNS — Tarn o' Shunter. I. BYRON— Bora Juan. Canto IV. St. 4. How much lies in Laughter: the cipherkey, wherewith we decipher... | |
 | William Bramwell Powell, Louise Connolly - 1899 - 330 pages
...fortune. 17. The materials of action are variable, but the use we make of them should be constant/ 18. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, Tis that I may not weep. 19. Watchman, tell us of the night, What its signs of promise are. 103. CAUTIONS. I. Conjunctions.... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - 1899 - 602 pages
...such rights exist — all that is now the religion and the hope of the party of progress through• " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, Tis that I may not weep." out Europe, is gloriously typified in this image, which we, barbarians that we are, have already forgotten.... | |
 | 1900 - 524 pages
...such rights exist — all that is now the religion and the hope of the party of progress through" " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep." out Europe, is gloriously typified in this image, which we, barbarians that we are, have already forgotten.... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1902 - 850 pages
...truth which hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque. And if\I laugh^ at aYvy mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep ; and if I...that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, for we must steep Our hearts first in the depths of Lethe's spring, Ere what we least wish to behold... | |
 | Karl Federn - 1902 - 356 pages
...That I would die a hundred times a day, is not vividly reminded of the famous verses of Lord Byron : And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep . . . Arrived at this juncture the current of Italian poetry divided, and while one branch was pursuing... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1904 - 942 pages
...her pinion, •nd the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk . urns what was once romantic to burlesque. m E. 'T is that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, for we must steep Our hearts first in the... | |
 | M. H. Abrams - 1975 - 494 pages
...uncomfortable man in the author of Don Juan; the very writing of it is part of the attempt to cheer himself up. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, Tis that I may not weep. The switches and reversals of mood are not so much the result of a critical check upon his emotion,... | |
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And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep ; and if I weep, 'Tis that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, for we must steep Our... 
