 | John William Carleton - 1840 - 532 str.
...smoke on the board." Return we now to the sports of merrie England and bonnie Scotland. It is said, that there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. Fly-fishing is the sublimity of the sport ; worm-fishing the antipodes of it. What can better exemplify... | |
 | 1841 - 210 str.
...peculiarities of his style repeated, until they produce feelings bordering on the ludicrous. We all know that there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous ; and he who dwells in elevated regions, has most cause to beware lest he stumble into this very different... | |
 | London univ, King's coll - 1842 - 686 str.
...boiling than the freezing point. Besides this, the author seems often to forget the oft-quoted maxim, that " there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous." Bad rhymes, long metres, and undignified or incongruous expressions, are apt to divert our fancy from... | |
 | 1842 - 818 str.
...goodfellowship, and sufficient of itself to set the table in a roar. How true is the remark of Bonaparte, that there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. Possessed of such multiplied claims to the gratitude and the countenance of man, the beard, in various... | |
 | 1846 - 844 str.
...birds, and their hoarse and discordant cries, are rather ludicrous than otherwise. It is a trite saying that there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous; and we presume the proverb must be interpreted by the fact that the same object viewed by different... | |
 | Llewelyn (fict.name.) - 1846 - 914 str.
...other the men rose from their seats and stood with their eyes fixed upon him in statue-like attention. That there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous was never more correctly illustrated than on the present occasion, for the instant the sermon was ended,... | |
 | 1847 - 498 str.
...But, indeed, if it were not so in reality, it should never be so in romance. The common maxim has it, that there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous ; but in actual experience, there is often only one step from the comic to the tragic, from the banquet-hall... | |
 | 1847 - 496 str.
...But, indeed, if it were not so in reality, it should never be so in romance. The common maxim has it, that there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous ; but in actual experience, there is often only one step from the comic to the tragic, from the banquet-hall... | |
 | 1848 - 480 str.
...manners. Tn two words, one is the outside, the other the inside of nature. But as Voltaire wisely observed that ' there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous,' pure and unmixed tragedy is a very rare thing. A mixed drama of light and shade is the most perfect,... | |
 | W. Andrew - 1848 - 116 str.
...its reasonable charge, he is induced to hope, that many will peruse its contents. It has been said, that " there is but one step, from the sublime to the ridiculous ;" and bearing this in mind, the author has carefully endeavoured to steer a medium course, pointing,... | |
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Napoleon utter a more original truth than when he said, that there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous... 
