 | England - 1834 - 918 pages
...perpetrating the Highland fling ! Never did Napoleon utter a more original truth than when he said, that there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous — Colonsay must have felt that as keenly as we did — lunghter convulsed our diaphragms— and so... | |
 | M. de Pradt (Dominique Georges Frédéric) - Europe - 1822 - 478 pages
...restrain the eyes from looking into the laboratory, where the thunders of his powers were forging; he knew that there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous, and that if the sublime were his throne, the ridiculous would be his grave. In this con'strained posture... | |
 | Horace Smith - English fiction - 1827 - 386 pages
...threw out his foot, it seemed as if every pace were doomed to illustrate the truth of the dictum — that there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. Cold, haughty, and repulsive in his demeanour, he received the welcome of Lady Trevanian, which was... | |
 | Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren - Colonies - 1829 - 426 pages
...sledge, and unknown, escaped death if not shame, to carry the first news of his defeat to his capital. " That there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous," was his consolation. VOL. u. 38 The French left the ruins of Moscow (the Kremlin having been blown... | |
 | Robert Huish - 1830 - 466 pages
...country, The Wellington administration promised much, and performed but little. Napoleon has said, that there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous ; and the DuUe of Wellington has proved that there is but one step from the ridiculous to the tragical.... | |
 | Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren - Colonization - 1834 - 490 pages
...sledge, and unknown, escaped death if not shame, to carry the first news of his defeat to his capital. " That there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous," was his only consolation. The French left the ruins of Moscow, (the Kremlin having Public been blown... | |
 | Robert Charles Sands - 1834 - 428 pages
...reading market. There is certainly nothing which may not be burlesqued. It is easy enough to conceive that there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. A little hero (and almost all heroes are little), cuts but a sorry figure in a picture-window, with... | |
 | Scotland - 1834 - 896 pages
...perpetrating the Highland fling ! Never did Napoleon utter a more original truth than when he said, that there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous — Colonsay must have felt that as keenly as we did — laughter convulsed our diaphragms — and... | |
 | Eliza Leslie - American fiction - 1835 - 302 pages
...as if it were seriously good. I need not remind you of the hacknied remarks, that extremes meet, and that there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. Look at this Ode to West Point, written in my Album by a very obliging cadet, a room-mate of my brother's.... | |
 | Robert Charles Sands - 1835 - 454 pages
...reading market. There is certainly nothing which may not be burlesqued. It is easy enough to conceive that there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. A little hero (and almost all heroes are little), cuts but a sorry figure in a picture-window, with... | |
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Napoleon utter a more original truth than when he said, that there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous... 
