 | 1856 - 642 str.
...disjointed world and nature of ours, could its candour but overcome its caution, would echo the wail — And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep. We may add the expression of our personal belief, that in the most genial and humorous natures,tbe... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1856 - 434 str.
..." 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... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1856 - 398 str.
...in town, I quoted one day to Rogers, as Shakspeare's, and as beautiful, the following lines : — " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep." * The next time we met, I found he had been in quest of the lines, thinking as I did of them, and it... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1856 - 868 str.
...observations which he felt himself bound to make, to avoid giving anything like offence to any one. " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, ' Tis that I may not weep." Every one knew what the real meaning of the Bill was. It was a measure to settle and limit the prerogative... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1857 - 450 str.
...held the same opinion i They took it up when my days grew more mellow. And other minds acknowledge! my dominion ; Now my sere fancy " falls into the yellow...that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, for we must steep Our hearts first m the depths of Lethe's spring, Ere what we least wish to behold... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1887 - 628 str.
...landed us in the Crimean War, has never been so well detailed. It is terribly ludicrous. Byron said, " If I laugh at any mortal thing, 'tis that I may not weep." And one cannot help laughing at some of the incidents recorded in the Journal of Mr. Greville. A learned... | |
 | 1883 - 598 str.
...you not perceive that I am growing very sportive — quite "gamesome," as Orlando puts it? — " But if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep. ..." Ha, ha ! I wax Byronic ! Take my merriment for what it is worth, and let me proceed. In spite,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1868 - 666 str.
...the torrent widens towards the ocean, We ponder deeply on each past emotion. fhrongr, DON JUAN. 1821, am low? Sweet lady ! speak those words again : Yet...Ixisotn pain. My heart is sad, my hopes are gonr, for we must steep Oar hearts first in the depths of Lethe's spring. Ere what we least wish to behold... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1870 - 770 str.
...too fast; But as the torrent widens towards the ocean, We ponder deeply on each past emotion. itr. As boy, I thought myself a clever fellow, And wish'd...any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep ; and if 1 weep, To that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, for we must steep Our hearts first... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 404 str.
...droops her pinion, And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk And if I laugh at auy mortal thing, "f is that I may not weep ; and if I weep, "Tis 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... 
