| 1920 - 1146 páginas
...richest comedy. Few have expressed this more intensely than he has. 'Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.' Yet the very extravagance of expression here suggests my difficulty. Somehow in Mark the humor and... | |
| Mark Twain - 1899 - 370 páginas
...belt of civilization, population, and good climate around it. CHAPTER X. Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. — Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar. CAPTAIN COOK found Australia in 1770, and eighteen years later... | |
| Mark Twain - 1899 - 340 páginas
...belt of civilization, population, and good climate around it. CHAPTER X Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of Humor itself Is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. — Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar. CAPTAIN COOK found Australia in 1770, and eighteen years later... | |
| Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner - 1899 - 372 páginas
...belt of civilization, population, and good climate around it. CHAPTER X. Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. — Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar. /CAPTAIN COOK found Australia in 1770, and v-, eighteen years... | |
| Mark Twain - 1899 - 368 páginas
...belt of civilization, population, and good climate around it. CHAPTER X. Everything human Is pathetic. The secret source of Humor itself Is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. —Pudd'nhcad Wilson's New Calendar. /CAPTAIN COOK found Australia in 1770, and V* eighteen years later... | |
| Mark Twain - 1901 - 378 páginas
...belt of civilization, population, and good climate around it. CHAPTER X. Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. —Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar. CAPTAIN COOK found Australia in 1770, and eighteen years later... | |
| Mark Twain - 1920 - 326 páginas
...class except Congress. It is your human environment that makes climate. . Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it — and stop there;... | |
| Carl Van Doren - 1921 - 320 páginas
...heart." In such a companionship he pitied men more than he hated them. " Everything human is pathetic. The secret s'ource of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven." In various unendurable hours, however, Mark Twain did seek something upon which to throw off his burden.... | |
| Brander Matthews - 1922 - 314 páginas
...calendar which served as chapter-headings in 'Following the Equator': "Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven." Many of those who had followed Mark faithfully were surprised and even grieved by the saturnine misanthropy,... | |
| Gamaliel Bradford - 1922 - 298 páginas
...richest comedy. Few have expressed this more intensely than he has: "Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven." 1S Yet the very extravagance of expression here suggests my difficulty. Somehow in Mark the humor and... | |
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