 | William Hazlitt - 1819 - 360 sayfa
...extraordinary personage cuts a great figure in his life, he is no less wonderful in his death and burial. " From the sublime to the ridiculous there is but one step;" and this character would almost seem to prove, that there is but one step from the ridiculous to the sublime.... | |
 | 1820 - 696 sayfa
...others, who indulge any pretensions to it, deserve nothing, save contempt and ridicule. Let us remember that " from the sublime to the ridiculous there is but one step ;" — that a man must either excel in this particular, or sink into a prattler of trifles and absurdity.... | |
 | 1821 - 456 sayfa
...others, who indulge any pretensions to it, deserve nothing, save contempt and ridicule. Let us remember that " from the sublime to the ridiculous there is but one step ;" — that a man must either excel in this particular, or sink into a prattler of trifles and absurdity.... | |
 | 1824 - 398 sayfa
...others, who indulge any pretensions to it, deserve nothing, save contempt and ridicule. Let us remember, that " from the sublime to the ridiculous there is but one step ;" — that a man must either excel in this particular, or sink into a prattler of trifles and absurdity.... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1835 - 568 sayfa
...fallen upon an egregious subject for ridicule, but the second volume convinced us it was beyond even that From the sublime to the ridiculous there is but one step —how many steps are there from the ridiculous to the disgusting? Such a pretty villain as the hero,... | |
 | 1841 - 658 sayfa
...relative to the sects denominated Jumpers and Crawlers. It has been often said, and very often confirmed, that from the sublime to the ridiculous there is but one step ; and M. Victor presumes that there is no more than the same degree of distance between enthusiasm and frenzy,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 512 sayfa
...extraordinary personage cuts a great figure in his life, he is no less wonderful in his death and burial. " From the sublime to the ridiculous there is but one step;" and this character would almost seem to prove, that there is but one step from the ridiculous to the sublime.—Lubin... | |
 | Robert Morehead - 1845 - 188 sayfa
...strongly feel the truth of the noted saying of one of the latest and most eminent of these mortal idols, that from the sublime to the ridiculous there is but one step. The moment that the prestige is dissipated, we no longer regard a worm in the character of a God. In... | |
 | Charles St. John - 1846 - 300 sayfa
...water ended and the land commenced — the shadow from the reality. The sun was already set, but its rays still illuminated the sky. It is said that from...apparition of a small waddling grey animal, who was busily employed in hunting about the grass and stones at the edge of the loch ; presently another, and another,... | |
 | 1846 - 806 sayfa
...water ended and the land commenced—the shadow from the reality. The sun was already set, but its rays still illuminated the sky. It is said that from the sublime to the ridiculous there is but one step;—and I was just then startled from my reverie by a kind of grunt close to me, and the apparition... | |
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... in hunting about the grass and stones at the edge of the loch ; presently another, and another, appeared in a little grassy glade which ran... 
