 | Thomas Carlyle - 1845 - 588 pages
...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 inverse sublimity ; exalting, as it were, into our affections what is below us, while sublimity... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - 1848 - 498 pages
...said that " true humor springs not more from the head than from the heart ; it is not contempt — its essence is love ; it issues not in laughter, but...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
...a good idea, " True humor springs not more frorn 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." He speaks of " the freedom with which Richter bandies to and fro the dogmas of religion, nay, sometimes,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1855 - 572 pages
...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...less precious or heart-affecting than the latter; periaps it is still rarer, and, as a test of genius, still more decisive, f It is, in fact, the bloom... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1857 - 556 pages
...and irrational. 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...sublimity ; exalting, as it were, into our affections what IB below us, while sublimity draws down into our affections what is above us. The former is scarcely... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1857 - 598 pages
...heac •han from the heart; it is not contempt, it: essence is love; it issues not in laughter jnt of Doom, proclaiming into the ear of Lord Chesterfield,...the listening world, that Patronage should be no mor ns, while sublimity draws down into our affections what is above us. The former is scarcely less precious... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1858 - 570 pages
...irrational. True numour springs not more from the head *han from the heart; it is not contempt, it f?sence i? love; it issues not in laughter, but in still smiles,...inverse sublimity; exalting, as it were, into our aifections what is below us, while sublimity draws down into our affections what is above us. The former... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1859 - 616 pages
...head •nan from the heart ; it is not contempt, its e-senr.e is lore; it issues not in laughter, sut in still smiles, which lie far deeper. It is a sort of inverse sublimity; exalting, as it were, into onr affections what is below us, while sublimity draws down into onr affections what is above us. The... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1860 - 494 pages
...and irrational. 'True humour springs not more from the head than from the heart c it is not contempt, its essence is love ; it issues not in laughter, but...as it were, into our affections what is below us, wnile sublimity draws down into our affectipns what is above us. The former is scarcely less precious... | |
 | 1872 - 566 pages
...the rest — "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...still smiles which lie far deeper. It is a sort of universal sublimity, exalting as it were into our affections what is before us, while sublimity draws... | |
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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. 
