 | 1888 - 1004 pages
...follow ing passage ? — True humor springs not more from the head than the heart; it is not contempt, its essence is love; it issues not in laughter but...sort of inverse sublimity exalting as it were into o« affections what is below us, while sublimity draws down into our affections what is above US. Excellent... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 pages
...No. XCI. 1827.) 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...sublimity draws down into our affections what is above us 2596 Carlyle : Essays. Richter. (Edinburgh Review, No. XCI. 1827.) A good understanding; indeed, without... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1894 - 300 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...of inverse sublimity ; exalting, as it were, into onr affections what is below us, while sublimity draws down into our affections what is above us. The... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1897 - 660 pages
...and irrational. 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...sublimity ; exalting, as it were, into our affections what ia below us, while sublimity draws down into our affections what is above us. The former is scarcely... | |
 | John Scott Clark - 1898 - 910 pages
...produce the sneer of Voltaire, it rather smiles through the tear of Montaigne. . . . It is not contempt, its essence is love; it issues not in laughter but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. . . . When to the faculty of originating ridicule is added the power of concentrating pity or pathos... | |
 | 1899 - 704 pages
...child. Carfyk. 10 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 draws down into our affections what is above us. Cwlylt. True influence is latent influence. Кемп. True joy is a serene and sober motion ; and they... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1901 - 504 pages
...and irrational. True humor springs uot more from the head than from the heart; it is not contempt, its essence is love ; it issues not in laughter, but...affections what is above us. The former is scarcely lees precious or heart-affecting than the latter; perhaps it is still rarer, and, as a test of genius,... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 pages
...TWffigginson. True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. — It is not contempt ; pou the stars. — Bnlwer. To look upon the soul as going — Carlyle. Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.— Thackeray.... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 776 pages
...Higginson. True humor springs not more from the i head than from the heart. — It is not contempt ; ne ; go" young. — Sala. Age and sorrow have the gift of reading the future by the past. — Varlyle. Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society. — Thackeray.... | |
 | Louis Pope Gratacap - 1913 - 310 pages
...charmingly, "true humour springs not more from the head than from the heart; it is not con[219] tempt, its essence is love; it issues not in laughter but...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 still more decisive.... | |
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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. 
