 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 368 pages
...And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque. And if I langh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep ; and if I weep, 'Tia that onr natnre cannot always bring Itself to apsithy, for we mnst steep Onr hearts first in the... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Literary curiosa - 1874 - 876 pages
...Holding the sleeping images of things For the selection of the pausing judgment — Doge of Venice, L 2. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep. — BYRON : Don Juan. RICHARDSON had said, long before, — Indeed, it is to this deep concern that... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1875 - 444 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Anthologies - 1875 - 868 pages
...the sleeping images of things For the selection of the pausing judgment. — Doge of Venice, I. 2. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep. — BYRON : Don Juan. RICHARDSON had said; long before, — ; Indeed, it is to this deep concern that... | |
 | Bertha H. Buxton - 1876 - 454 pages
...stead." " I do believe you are laughing at something I don't understand," said Jennie, puzzled. ' " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep," As for Guy, instead of being pleased and sympathetic when he heard of Jennie's good fortune, he behaved... | |
 | Bertha H. Buxton, Jennie - 1876 - 316 pages
...stead." " I do believe you are laughing at something I don't understand," said Jennie, puzzled. " ' And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep,' " said the little mother, and would say no more, As for Guy, instead of being pleased and sympathetic... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1877 - 362 pages
...SHAKESPERE, Julins Cœsar. Lata. — Better LATE than never — TCSSER, Points of Hushandry. Laugh, — And if I LAUGH at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep. — BYRON. Dun Juan. — A LACGH is worth a hundred groaus in any market. LAMR, Еssауs. — They... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1878 - 636 pages
...acknowledged my dominion. Now my sere fancy " falls into the yellow Leaf," and Imagination droops her pmion, And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk Turns...th'at 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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 650 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 648 pages
...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... | |
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And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep ; and if I weep, 'Tis that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, for we must steep Our... 
