...doing 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...

...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...

...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...

...subject a sort of mania prevailed which carried the devotion so far as to realize the truth of the remark that there is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous. French fashions, French phrases and manners were caught at, and imitated as though they were themselves...

...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...

...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...

...doing 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...

...doing 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...

...though to get to these affecting thoughts, 1 had to pass through the tailor's shop where they were made. There is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, and so backward from the ridiculous to the sublime. But in the height of my satisfaction in being permitted...

...though to get to these affecting thoughts, I had to pass through the tailor's shop where they were made. There is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, and so backward from the ridiculous to the sublime. But in the height of my satisfaction in being permitted...