 | Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais - 1884 - 194 Seiten
...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... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1885 - 290 Seiten
...more mellow, Andotherminds acknowledged mydominion: Now my sere fancy "falls into the yellow Leaf,"* and Imagination droops her pinion, And the sad truth...to burlesque. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'T is that I may not weep ; and if I weep, 'T is that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy,... | |
 | Samuel Longfellow - 1886 - 478 Seiten
...just in sentiment or calculated to work permanent benefit. Besides, rest assured, my dear sir, that "if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'tis that I may not weep;" and I should not have ventured so far had I not felt some of the freedom of an old acquaintance, since... | |
 | Giuseppe Mazzini - 1887 - 408 Seiten
...bosom of the North, So shall a better spring less bitter fruit bring forth." * Written in Italy. t " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, "Tis that I may not weep." and whose grand and mysterious form, transfigured by time, reappears from age to age, between the entombment... | |
 | Giuseppe Mazzini - 1887 - 380 Seiten
...bosom of the North, So shall a better spring less bitter fruit bring forth." * Written in Italy. tl( And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep." and whose grand and mysterious form, transfigured by time, reappears from age to age, between the entombment... | |
 | John Lothrop Motley - 1889 - 452 Seiten
...have been playing with edge tools ever since the beginning of January, and somebody may get hurt. " If I laugh at any mortal thing 'tis that I may not weep," and I feel more like crying, a good deal, when I am writing to you. We miss you more and more every day,... | |
 | Roden Noel - 1890 - 272 Seiten
...Greece," too, are here, with their comical birth out of, and relapse into, buffoonery. But he says : — " If I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep." And that he has " Nothing planned, Except to be a moment merry." Life, after all, is half comic, half tragic... | |
 | Friedrich von Westenholz - 1890 - 72 Seiten
...und Dichten Byrons eignenden Zug erkennt, zu dessen treffender Charakterisierung er auf die Verse: „And if I laugh at any mortal thing T'is that I may not weep." (Don Juan, IV, 4.) hinweist. Als Kundgebungen eines gesunden Humors erscheinen uns vielmehr Bemerkungen... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1890 - 488 Seiten
...midnight, " I go to my bed with a heaviness of heart at having lived so long and to so little purpose." " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep," he says in " Don Juan." " Mine were my faults, and mine he their reward. My whole life was a contest... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1891 - 752 Seiten
...mellow, And other minds acknowledged my dominion : Now my sere fancy ' falls into the yellow Leaf,' here could gaze denying thee I • The wrangling about...• the broad Hellespont, or the ' bouiuliess Helles IV. And if Т laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep ; and if I weep, 'Tis that our nature... | |
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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... 
