 ... at the look of blank amazement with which Paddy received my announcement of the necessity of taking out all the coals from the grate, before he could hope to kindle a fire, and the stare of the man of affairs for the D House, as he entered upon the...  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Seite 1591852Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1824 - 476 Seiten
...to dispel the fiction in which Yorick's arithmetic seems to be involved. As in eloquence it has been said, there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous, so of jocularity it may be asserted, that its partition from offensive levity, or constructive insult,... | |
 | 1846 - 708 Seiten
...correct, how harmonious the colouring — how classic the outline in the Englishman ! If (as is often said) there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous, that step should surely be a long one, and the gradient should at least be easy. Viewed through this... | |
 | Margaret Cockburn Conkling - 1857 - 506 Seiten
...of affairs for the D House, as he entered upon the field of my efforts to say that tea was ready." " There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous !" I exclaimed, laughing, in spite of my sympathy with my fair friend. " And what became of the barbarian... | |
 | Margaret Cockburn Conkling - 1858 - 482 Seiten
...of affairs for the D House, as he entered upon the field of my efforts to say that tea was ready" . "There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous!" I exclaimed, laughing, in spite of my sympathy with. my fair friend. u And what became of the barbarian... | |
 | Kit Kelvin - 1860 - 300 Seiten
...rich, warm sunbeams. Merry chimes of tuneful bells are calling you to sacred portals. Not so here ; aad yet it is well, for God is omnipotent, and the " Sea...intemperate, polite, crude, polished, indifferent ; old travellers, clergymen, young beginners ; infidels, rich, pretenders ; generous, eccentric, listeners,... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1888 - 620 Seiten
...more solemn and surprising. So fitly, so tenderly, let us part here with Thackeray. We all know that there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. I am going to take that step, and wonder how it looks. But in my sense, it is but a step from the top... | |
 | Henry Lunettes - 1863 - 492 Seiten
...of affairs for the D House, as he entered upon the field of my efforts to say that tea was ready." " There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous !" I exclaimed, laughing, in spite of my sympathy with my fair friend. " And what became of the barbarian... | |
 | James Robinson Planché - 1879 - 386 Seiten
...modus operandi of that classical period, which really illustrates the old proverbial observation that there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. I therefore selected a subject which might be treated ludicrously without any violation of good taste,... | |
 | Bourchier Wrey Savile - 1885 - 342 Seiten
...simple particles of protoplasm ; and these " monera originated from nonliving matter." f It is often said there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous ; a saying peculiarly apposite to the various * Anthropo genie, p. 39 9 f Huxley's Critiques and Addresses,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1888 - 916 Seiten
...more solemn and surprising. So fitly, so tenderly, let us part here with Thackeray. We all know that there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. I am going to take that step, and wonder how it looks. But in my sense, it is but a step from the top... | |
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