...country which had been one of slavery for centuries," he adds, " But there is no freedom, even for " And If I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep." ] This laughter, — which, in such temperaments, is the near neighbour of tears, — served as a diversion...

...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 ; and if I weep, "Tls that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, for we must steep Our hearts first In the...

...country which had been one of slavery for centuries," he adds, " But there Is m< freedom, even for 0 ' " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep." > This laughter, — which, in such temperaments, is the near neighbour of tears, — served as a diversion...

...sympathy and sorrow shuddering down the wind on it as it dies away. More truly than Byron might he say, " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'tis that I may not weep." For our parts, we love to see this great spirit, as he stands beside the boiling abyss of the French...

...sympathy and sorrow shuddering down the wind on it as it dies away. More truly than Byron might he say, " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'tis that I may not weep." For our parts, we love to see this great spirit, as he stands beside the boiling abyss of the French...

...regards canto iv. stanza iv., Mr. Coleridge may in a reissue notice that the idea contained in the lines And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep, is suggested by Figaro in Beaumarchais. A Catalogue of the Armour and Arms in the Armoury of the Knights...

...that of a fiend but resembles the neigh of a homeless steed. More truly than Byron might he say, " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'tis that I may not weep." For our parts, we love to see him, as he stands beside the boiling abyss of the French Revolution;...

...by. Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt In soft adoption of another's sorrow. Aaron IIM. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may...bring Itself to apathy, which we must steep First iu the icy depths of Lethe's spring, Ere what we kast wish to behold will sleep. Byron. Weep not for...

...the burlesque character of it exclusively ; I felt more in the condition of Byron, when he said — "And if I laugh at any mortal thing, Tis that I may not weep " "But," said I, with a jerk as it were, for I saw the necessity of calming Vale by a change of topic,...

..." What a wonderful man that Shakespeare is ! how perfectly I now feel the truth of his words, — " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep" ! I happened to repeat to Mrs. N. what Moore had said ; upon which she observed, " Why, the passage...