 | 1827 - 698 pages
...and irrational. True humour springs not more from the head than from the heart ; it is uot coiitempt, its essence is love ; it issues not in laughter, but...affections what is above us. The former is scarcely less precious or heart-affecting than the latter; perhaps it is still rarer, and, as a test of genius,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1838 - 476 pages
...the soul is wanting; any life it has being false, artificial, and irrational. True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart; it is not...affections what is above us. The former is scarcely less precious or heart-affecting than the latter ; perhaps it is still rarer, and, as a test of genius,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 862 pages
...the soul is wanting ; any life it has being false, artificial and irrational. True humour springs not more from the head than from the heart ; it is not...affections what is above us. The former is scarcely less precious or heart-affecting than the latter ; perhaps it is still rarer, and, as a test of genius,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1845 - 594 pages
...soul is wanting ; any life it has being false, artificial, and irrational. True humour springs not more from the head than from the heart; it is not contempt, its ssence is love; it issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. It is a son of... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - 1848 - 536 pages
...mind of steel and adamant Against all greater wrongs." Cailyle has said that " true humor springs not more from the head than from the heart; it is not...draws down into our affections what is above us." But of this amiable, vivacious excellence, Randolph had little or none. His humor was not mere pleasant,... | |
 | Walter Macon Lowrie - 1849 - 522 pages
...Richter's humor, &c., according to Carlyle. Here's a good idea, " True humor springs not more frorn the head than from the heart. It is not contempt,...laughter, but in still smiles which lie far deeper." He speaks of " the freedom with which Richter bandies to and fro the dogmas of religion, nay, sometimes,... | |
 | Walter Macon Lowrie - 1850 - 528 pages
...Bentham !" Such is Richter's humor, &c., according toCarlyle. Here's a good idea, "True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not...laughter, but in still smiles which lie far deeper." He speaks of " the freedom with which Richter bandies to and fro the dogmas of religion, nay, sometimes,... | |
 | 1852 - 590 pages
...life it has being false, artificial, and irrational. True humour springs not more from the head •ban from the heart; it is not contempt, its essence is...affections what is above us. The former is scarcely less precious or heart-affecting than the latter; perhaps it is still rarer, and, as a test of genius,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 568 pages
...life it has being false, artificial, and irrational. True numour springs not more from the head *han from the heart; it is not contempt, its essence is love ; it issues not in laughter, biit in still smiles, which lie far deeper. It is a sort of inverse sublimity ;- exalting, as it were,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1855 - 572 pages
...any life it has being false, artificial, and irrational True humour springs not more from the heac than from the heart ; it is not contempt, its essence is love; it issues not in laughter in still smiles, which lie far deeper. It is a sort of inverse sublimity; exalting, as it were, into... | |
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True humour springs not more from the head than from the heart ; it is not contempt, its essence is love ; it issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. 
