| William Hazlitt - 1819 - 360 páginas
...LECTURES on THE COMIC WRITERS, &c. OF GREAT BRITAIN. LECTURE I.— INTRODUCTORY. ON WIT AND HUMOUR. MAN is the only animal that laughs and weeps ; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things 'are, and what they ought to be. We weep at what thwarts or... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1819 - 368 páginas
...LECTURES THE COMIC WRITERS, &c. OF GREAT BRITAIN. LECTURE I.— INTRODUCTORY. ON WIT AND HUMOUR. I MA 1ST is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and wHt they ought to he.f We weep at what thwarts or... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1845 - 242 páginas
...the Last Century 178 LECTURES ENGLISH COMIC WEITEES. LECTURE I— INTRODUCTORY. On Wit and Humour. MAN is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the [A only animal that is struck with the difference between what I things are, and what they ought to... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1854 - 980 páginas
...the Last Century 178 LECTURES ENGLISH COMIC WRITEBS. LECTURE I.— INTRODUCTORY. On Wit and Humour. MAN is the only animal that laughs and weeps ; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be. We weep at what thwarts or... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1855 - 498 páginas
...any long endurance : for as language ripens, and the meaning - — , * * [Hazlitt observes : — " Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps ; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be. We weep at what thwarts or... | |
| 1867 - 850 páginas
...principles not essentially at variance with those we bive been suggesting: — • .M in.' he says, ' is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is strurk with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be. We weep at what thwarts... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1876 - 474 páginas
...AKD CIlAUliJO CUO*. THE ENGLISH COMIC WRITERS. LECTUKE I.— INTRODTJCTORY. X ON WIT AND HUMOTJK. ' MAN is the only animal that laughs and weeps ; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be. We weep at what thwarts or... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1879 - 834 páginas
...fountain of tears ; touch the one, and, by a slight transition, the other may be evoked. It has been well said that " man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between things as they are and things as they ought to be." Shakspere saw all this... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1879 - 806 páginas
...fountain of tears; touch the one, and, by a slight transition, the other may be evoked. It has been well said that " man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between things as they are and things as they ought to be." Shakspere saw all this... | |
| John Nichol - 1882 - 496 páginas
...Raphael to himself, or from Ben Jonson to Shakespeare. 2D CHAPTER XII. AMERICAN HUMORISTS — CONCLUSION. IT has been said that man is the only animal that laughs or weeps ; for he alone is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to... | |
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