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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... "
The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life - Seite 6
von George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833
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Garrett and the English Muse

Lia Noêmia Rodrigues Correia Raitt - 1983 - 168 Seiten
...who will, the cynic shall be free; / His tub hath tougher walls than Synope!' » Don Juan, C. IV, 4. The sad truth which hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque. 81 When we know what all are, we must bewail us. But ne'ertheless I hope it is no crime To laugh at...
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Byron's Don Juan

Bernard G. Beatty - 1985 - 264 Seiten
...private history. Nothing in Don Juan articulates this unmitigated bravura so directly. Byron's couplet And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque (IV, 3) appears specifically to disclaim it. Nevertheless Professor Ridenour's contention that the...
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Desperate Storytelling: Post-Romantic Elaborations of the Mock-Heroic Mode

Roger B. Salomon - 2008 - 318 Seiten
...more mellow, And other minds acknowledged my dominion: Now my sere Fancy "falls into the yellow Leaf," and Imagination droops her pinion, And the sad truth...that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy. . . . [4.3-4] Byron goes on to defend his strange and complex point of view and the art form that has...
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The Arimaspian Eye

David L. Hall - 1992 - 448 Seiten
...sad face and wondered if she had ever read Byron's Don Juan and, if so, had she paused at the line And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'tis that I may not weep. 18 On the way to the airport, Michael loosened his tie and was relieved to discover that the constriction...
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The Collected Poems of Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 Seiten
...mellow, And other minds acknowledged my dominion: Now my sere fancy " falls into the yellow Leaf," and Imagination droops her pinion, And the sad truth...my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque. IV. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, "Г is that I may not weep ; and if I weep, 'Tie that onr nature...
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Byron and the Victorians

Andrew Elfenbein - 1995 - 310 Seiten
...later career. Don Juan relentlessly pokes fun at the Byronic style that exhausted itself in Manfred: "And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk / Turns what was once romantic to burlesque" (1v.3). Throughout, as McGann has argued in "Don Juan" in Context, Byron mocks his audience's desire...
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The Ambiguity of Taste: Freedom and Food in European Romanticism

Jocelyne Kolb - 1995 - 368 Seiten
...comment from canto 4 that often setves as a summary of Byron's themes and of his stance in Don Juan: And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque. (4.3) Another passage that merges truth with taste and poetry occurs in canto 8, where a Turk bites...
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Lord Byron: The Critical Heritage

Andrew Rutherford - 1995 - 536 Seiten
...bosom of the North, So shall a better spring less bitter fruit bring forth.' 1 Written in Italy. 3 'And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.' his 'death a victory.' When he heard the cry of nationality and liberty burst forth in the land he...
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Schönberg and Kandinsky: An Historic Encounter

Konrad Boehmer - 1997 - 248 Seiten
...is full of tears. The modern Pierrot is defined by the paradox that Lord Byron had already stated: "And if I laugh at any mortal thing, Tis that I may not weep." The state of world and society (Schonberg's "price of grain") is experienced as such that the sensitive...
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Famous Lines: A Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations

Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 Seiten
...Barbier de Seville, act 1 , se. 2 (1 775). Byron expressed a similar idea in Don ¡uan cto. 4, st. 4: "And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep." Nothing can confound A wise man more than laughter from a dunce. GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON, ÓTH BARON...
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