...regards canto iv. stanza iv., Mr. Coleridge may in a reissue notice that the idea contained in the lines And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep, is suggested by Figaro in Beaumarchais. A Catalogue of the Armour and Arms in the Armoury of the Knights...

...that of a fiend but resembles the neigh of a homeless steed. More truly than Byron might he say, " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'tis that I may not weep." For our parts, we love to see him, as he stands beside the boiling abyss of the French Revolution;...

...Leaf,' and Imagination droopi her pinion. And the ud truth which huvuri o'er my desk Turns what waa once romantic to burlesque : And If I laugh at any mortal thing, Tie that 1 may not weep ; and If I weep, 'Tie that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy,...

...by. Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt In soft adoption of another's sorrow. Aaron IIM. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may...that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, which we must steep First iu the icy depths of Lethe's spring, Ere what we kast wish to behold will...

...the burlesque character of it exclusively ; I felt more in the condition of Byron, when he said — "And if I laugh at any mortal thing, Tis that I may not weep " "But," said I, with a jerk as it were, for I saw the necessity of calming Vale by a change of topic,...

...observations which he felt himself bound to make, to avoid giving anything like offence to any one. " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, ' Tis that I may not weep." Every one knew what the real meaning of the Bill was. It was a measure to settle and limit the prerogative...

..." What a wonderful man that Shakespeare is ! how perfectly I now feel the truth of his words, — " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep" ! I happened to repeat to Mrs. N. what Moore had said ; upon which she observed, " Why, the passage...

..." What a wonderful man that Shakespeare is ! how perfectly I now feel the truth of his words, — " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep ! " I happened to repeat to Mrs. N. what Moore had said ; upon which she observed, " Why, the passage...

...in town, I quoted one day to Rogers, as Shakspeare's, and as beautiful, the following lines : — " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep." * The next time we met, I found he had been in quest of the lines, thinking as I did of them, and it...

...disjointed world and nature of ours, could its candour but overcome its caution, would echo the wail — And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep. We may add the expression of our personal belief, that in the most genial and humorous natures,tbe...