| Alexander Keith - 1832 - 336 Seiten
...an illustration of the saying most rife upon his lips, immediately after his flight from Smorgoni, that there is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous. He passed the Niemen as the head of half a million ; he recrossed the frontier of Russia slouching... | |
| 1832 - 348 Seiten
...motion, and cannot therefore be represented by any fixed and permanent colour. Let him also remember, that there is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous. This gaudy ribbon and vulgar nosegay style of painting is a complete mistake, and as friends and warm... | |
| John Watkins - 1832 - 800 Seiten
...good, and rendering himself beloved, he did mischief, and created enemies. It has been truly said, that there is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous. The Emperor Joseph, in his conduct, exemplified the observation to the fullest extent. At the same... | |
| Summer - 1836 - 206 Seiten
...wretches are refusing from them with disdain. Painters as well as princes ought certainly to remember " that there is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous." Whilst I was at Madrid a proclamation was issued by the government, abolishing all convents which did... | |
| 1836 - 418 Seiten
...friend, when I was again surprised to see him become perfectly calm. " Did you never hear," said he, " that there is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous ?" " Yes, a thousand times ; but what can you mean ?" (somewhat doubting his sanity.) " Nothing ; only... | |
| George Newenham Wright, John Watkins - 1837 - 972 Seiten
...good, and rendering himself beloved, he did mischief, and created enemies. It has been truly said, that there is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous. The Emperor Joseph, in his conduct, exemplified the observation to the fullest extent. At the same... | |
| George Newenham Wright, John Watkins - 1857 - 462 Seiten
...good, and rendering himself beloved, he did mischief, and created enemies. It has been truly said, that there is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous. The Emperor Joseph, in his conduct, exemplified the observation to the fullest extent. At the same... | |
| George Newenham Wright, John Watkins - 1837 - 954 Seiten
...good, and rendering himself beloved, he did mischief, and created enemies. It has been truly said, that there is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous. The Emperor Joseph, in his conduct, exemplified the observation to the fullest extent. At the same... | |
| 1841 - 754 Seiten
...BY ALBANY FOYNTZ. ' The first Link in the scale of Creation.' — Occasional Sermon. • WE are told that there is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous. It may be observed, with equal truth, that between the mobs of the great world and the swell mob there... | |
| 1841 - 744 Seiten
...LINEMAN. BY ALBANY POTNTZ. ' The first Link in the scale of Creation.' — Occasional Sernum. WE are told that there is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous. It may be observed, with equal truth, that between the mobs of the great world and the swell mob there... | |
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