 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1873 - 826 pages
...it has been wisely said, " springs not more from the head than from the heart ; it is not contempt, its essence is love ; it issues not in laughter, but...it were into our affections what is below us, while * l. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray. In twelve volumes (Popular Edition). London : 1871-72.... | |
 | 1873 - 660 pages
...humour are close relations and imply a fellow feeling, sensibility, and geniality. Carlyle says " humour is a sort of inverse sublimity ; exalting, as it were,...sublimity draws down into our affections what is above us. It is, in fact, the bloom and perfume, the purest effluence of a deep, fine, and loving nature ; a... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1873 - 582 pages
...contempt, its '•aenr.fr i? love: it issues not in laughter, jut in still smiles, which .5e far deeper. Il is a sort of inverse sublimity; exalting, as it were,...what is below us, while sublimity draws down into our affection* what is above us. The former is scarcely less srecious or heart-affecting than the latter;... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - Authors, American - 1875 - 458 pages
...it has been wisely said, ' springs not more from the head than from the heart ; it is not contempt, its essence is love ; it issues not in laughter, but...sublimity draws down into our affections what is above us. It is, in fact, the bloom and perfume, the purest effluence of a deep, fine, and loving nature.' Without... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1876 - 412 pages
...and irrational. True humour springs not more from the head than from the heart ; it is not contempt, its essence is love ; it issues not in laughter, but...above us. The former is scarcely less precious or heart affecting than the latter ; perhaps it is still rarer, and, as a test of genius, still more decisive.... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1876 - 406 pages
...hearf";7il" is not contempt, itsjgssence is lave.;, it issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which }ie far deeper. It is a sort of inverse sublimity^ exalting,...above us. The former is scarcely less precious or heart- affecting than the latter; perhaps it is still rarer, and, as a test of genius, still more decisive.... | |
 | American literature - 1873 - 164 pages
...the heart; it is not contempt, its essence is fcve ; it issues not in laughter, but in still (miles, which lie far deeper. It is a sort of inverse sublimity...sublimity draws down into our affections what is above us. It is, in fact, the bloom and perfume, the purest effluence of a deep, fine and loving nature." Without... | |
 | Edward Barrett - 1881 - 412 pages
...and irrational. True humour springs not more from the head than from the heart ; it is not contempt, its essence is love ; it issues not in laughter, but...above us. The former is scarcely less precious or heart- affecting than the latter; perhaps it is still rarer, and, as a test of genius, still more decisive.... | |
 | Medical Association of Georgia - Medicine - 1884 - 508 pages
...forms of existence. * * * True humor springs not more from the head than the heart; it is not contempt, its essence is love; it issues not in laughter, but...sublimity draws down into our affections what is above. The former is scarcely less precious or heart affecting than the latter; perhaps it is still rarer,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 430 pages
...from the heart ; it is not contempt, its essence is love ; it issues not in laughter, but in »«till smiles, which lie far deeper. It is a sort of inverse...than the latter ; perhaps it is still rarer, and, as « test of genius, still more decisive. It is, in fact, the bloom and perfume, the purest effluence... | |
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True humour springs not more from the head than from the heart ; it is not contempt, its essence is love ; it issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. 
