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 | 1886 - 894 pages
...close of the second part of his '' Age of Reason," had said the same thing less epigrammatically : — The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly...step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again. Again, Goldsmith's exquisitely expressed And as a hare whom hounds and horns pursue Pants to the place... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 686 pages
...close of the second part of his ' Age of Reason,' had said the same thing less epigrammatically : — The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult lo class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous... | |
 | William Francis Henry King - 1887 - 630 pages
...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... | |
 | 1887 - 564 pages
...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,...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 it,... | |
 | Francis Marion Crawford - 1888 - 330 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1893 - 616 pages
...uncultivated minds, and even by acute and judicious ones, who are destitute of imagination. He tells us that "the sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is diHicult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pages
...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... | |
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