 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1839 - 782 str.
...country which had been one of slavery for centuries," he adds, " But there is no freedom, even for " And If I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep." ] This laughter, — which, in such temperaments, is the near neighbour of tears, — served as a diversion... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1844 - 780 str.
...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 not weep ; and if I weep, "Tls that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, for we must steep Our hearts first In the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1844 - 786 str.
...country which had been one of slavery for centuries," he adds, " But there Is m< freedom, even for 0 ' " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep." > This laughter, — which, in such temperaments, is the near neighbour of tears, — served as a diversion... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1845 - 500 str.
...sympathy and sorrow shuddering down the wind on it as it dies away. More truly than Byron might he say, " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'tis that I may not weep." For our parts, we love to see this great spirit, as he stands beside the boiling abyss of the French... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1846 - 508 str.
...sympathy and sorrow shuddering down the wind on it as it dies away. More truly than Byron might he say, " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'tis that I may not weep." For our parts, we love to see this great spirit, as he stands beside the boiling abyss of the French... | |
 | 1903 - 664 str.
...regards canto iv. stanza iv., Mr. Coleridge may in a reissue notice that the idea contained in the lines And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep, is suggested by Figaro in Beaumarchais. A Catalogue of the Armour and Arms in the Armoury of the Knights... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1851 - 316 str.
...that of a fiend but resembles the neigh of a homeless steed. More truly than Byron might he say, " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'tis that I may not weep." For our parts, we love to see him, as he stands beside the boiling abyss of the French Revolution;... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 str.
...by. Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt In soft adoption of another's sorrow. Aaron IIM. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may...bring Itself to apathy, which we must steep First iu the icy depths of Lethe's spring, Ere what we kast wish to behold will sleep. Byron. Weep not for... | |
 | Joseph Warren Fabens - 1853 - 414 str.
...the burlesque character of it exclusively ; I felt more in the condition of Byron, when he said — "And if I laugh at any mortal thing, Tis that I may not weep " "But," said I, with a jerk as it were, for I saw the necessity of calming Vale by a change of topic,... | |
 | Samuel Rogers, William Maltby - 1856 - 372 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... | |
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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... 
