...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...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...

...recollection of his frequent exhibitions of unaffected hysteria, we accept his own confession — " If I laugh at any mortal thing, Tis that I may not weep " — as a perfectly sincere comment on the most sincere, and therefore in many respects the most effective,...

...edition, although it is added here from the later ones. 1. 32. Cf. Byron's Don Juan, Canto iv, stanza iv: — ' And if I laugh at any mortal thing, "Tis that I may not weep,' etc. P. 85, 1. 8. M. Vitu finds here another resemblance to Regnard's Folies Amoureuses : — ' Lisette...

...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 rfbt weep ; and if I weep, 'Tis that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, for we must steep...

...just in sentiment or calculated to work permanent benefit. Besides, rest assured, my dear sir, that "if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'tis that I may not weep;" and I should not have ventured so far had I not felt some of the freedom of an old acquaintance, since...

...bosom of the North, So shall a better spring less bitter fruit bring forth." * Written in Italy. tl( And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep." and whose grand and mysterious form, transfigured by time, reappears from age to age, between the entombment...

...bosom of the North, So shall a better spring less bitter fruit bring forth." * Written in Italy. t " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, "Tis that I may not weep." and whose grand and mysterious form, transfigured by time, reappears from age to age, between the entombment...

...have been playing with edge tools ever since the beginning of January, and somebody may get hurt. " If I laugh at any mortal thing 'tis that I may not weep," and I feel more like crying, a good deal, when I am writing to you. We miss you more and more every day,...

...midnight, " I go to my bed with a heaviness of heart at having lived so long and to so little purpose." " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep," he says in " Don Juan." " Mine were my faults, and mine he their reward. My whole life was a contest...

...und Dichten Byrons eignenden Zug erkennt, zu dessen treffender Charakterisierung er auf die Verse: „And if I laugh at any mortal thing T'is that I may not weep." (Don Juan, IV, 4.) hinweist. Als Kundgebungen eines gesunden Humors erscheinen uns vielmehr Bemerkungen...