 The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again...  Curiosities of Literature - Página 462por Isaac Disraeli - 1807Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | William Francis Henry King - 1887 - 630 páginas
...approaches very nearly to the sublime .• Tom Paine, Age of Reason, 1794, pt. 2, fin. (note), had said, "One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous,...step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again." Cf. also Wieland, Abderiten (1774), vol. iii. cap. 12 : Die Dummheit hat ihr Sublimes so gut als der... | |
 | Francis Marion Crawford - 1888 - 330 páginas
...his taste. Discrimination, sir, is a great element in wit. Thomas Paine was right when he said that ' one step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and...step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.' It is very true." " I always thought Napoleon said that," remarked Lady Brenda. " He may have said... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 páginas
...Humphrey Ward, Translator.) Style is the dress of thoughts. 5211 Lord Chesterfield: Letter, Nov. 24, 1749. The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly...step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again. 5212 Thomas Paine : Age of Reason. Pt. ii. Note at Finis. (Also attributed to Napoleon I. and Fontenelle.)... | |
 | 1889 - 934 páginas
...ridiculous nre often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step below the sublime makes the ridiculous; and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again. d. THOMAS PAINE— Aye of Reason. Pt. II. (Also attributed to Napoleon I. nnd Fontenelle. ) Expression... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1892 - 474 páginas
...as Guy Fawkes carried his dark lantern, and taken them out to shine as he might happen to want them. The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly...step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again ; the account, however, abstracted from the poetical fancy, shows the ignorance of Joshua, for he should... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 páginas
...imaginative nature pours out luxuriantly, and blossoms all over with ornament. — Beeeher. SI I-.MMITY. The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly...step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again. — Thomas Paine. Sublimity is Hebrew by birth. — Coleridge. Stupidity has its sublime as well as... | |
 | Prentiss Webster - 1894 - 252 páginas
...yet boldly contradicted the one the other, each positive in his own views. The Commission felt that one step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and...step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again ; it therefore trod gently the shapeless lot, each member constituting himself arbiter elegantiarum.... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1896 - 560 páginas
...as Guy Faux carried his dark lanthorn, and taken them out to shine as he might happen to want them. The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly...step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again ; the account, however, abstracted from the poetical fancy, shews the ignorance of Joshua, for he should... | |
 | Helen H. Watson - 1902 - 264 páginas
...sober frolic; the only sorrow was that the party had been of necessity limited to four. CHAPTER V ' The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly...related that it is difficult to class them separately.' — THOMAS PAINE. HAT do you think of Hester Lavenham ? ' inquired Miss Millington of her two governesses,... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 páginas
...full of change, change, change — nothing but change! k. I). M. MULOCK — Immutable. The sublime and below the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.... | |
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