 | 1928 - 664 Seiten
...Verse" is of this delicate variety that bears out the feeling expressed by Lord Byron in "Don Juan," "And if I laugh at any mortal thing 'tis that I may not weep." Books about Humor MEREDITH, GEORGE. 1828-1909. AN ESSAY ON COMEDY. Scribner Modern Student's 1897 $1.00... | |
 | Robert Bechtold Heilman - 320 Seiten
...reading of experience. Ionesco has declared that comedy may well produce tears. We remember Byron's "And if I laugh at any mortal thing, / Tis that I may not weep," and Shelley's "Our sincerest laughter / With some pain is fraught." The most that we can say for laughter... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1977 - 772 Seiten
...grew more mellow, And other minds acknowledged my dominion. Now my sere fancy ' falls into the yellow 4 And if I laugh at any mortal thing, Tis that I may...that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, for we must steep Our hearts first in the depths of Lethe's spring, Ere what we least wish to behold... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Donald E. Morse, Csilla Bertha, István Pálffy - 1993 - 274 Seiten
...termed, as Byron terms the 'wandering' Don Juan, a 'half-serious rhyme': thus toned and tuned because 'if I laugh at any mortal thing', 'Tis that I may not weep'. Muldoon too on close inspection might be accused 'of a strange design / Against the creed and morals... | |
 | David L. Hall - 1994 - 308 Seiten
...philosopher, nothing can be really appreciated if one ignores its context. Recall Byron's confession: “And if I laugh at any mortal thing ‘tis that I may not weep.” As usually understood, comedy is twice removed from reality. It is the mask of tragedy; that makes... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1995 - 412 Seiten
...that in vain 30 I would essay as I have sung to sing. Yet, though a dreary strain, to this I cling; So that it wean me from the weary dream Of selfish...or gladness — so it fling Forgetfulness around me — it shall seem To me, though to none else, a not ungrateful theme. He, who grown aged in this world... | |
 | Andrew Rutherford - 1995 - 536 Seiten
...bosom of the North, So shall a better spring less bitter fruit bring forth.' 2 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... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 Seiten
...that in vain 30 I would essay as I have sung to sing. Yet, though a dreary strain, to this I cling; So that it wean me from the weary dream Of selfish grief or gladness—so it fling Forgetfulness around me-it shall seem To me, though to none else, a not ungrateful... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 Seiten
...be, that in vain I would essay as I have sung to sing. Yet, though a dreary strain, to this I cling So that it wean me from the weary dream Of selfish grief or gladness - so it fling 35 Forgetfulness around me - it shall seem To me, though to none else, a not ungrateful theme. v He,... | |
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So that it wean me from the weary dream Of selfish grief, or gladness !—so it fling Forgetfulness around me ! " Childe Harold, Canto III. Stanza 4. " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, Tis that I may not weep ;—and if I weep, 'Tis that our nature... 
