 | Louis Pope Gratacap - 1913 - 300 pages
...charmingly, "true humour springs not more from die head than from the heart; it is not con[219] tempt, its essence is love; it issues not in laughter but...lie far deeper. It is a sort of inverse sublimity; pTalting as it were, into our affections, what is below us, while sublimity draws down into our affections... | |
 | Freeman Henry Morris Murray - 1916 - 330 pages
...funny or ridiculous or satirical. It is indeed a rare and precious gift. Carlyle says of true humor : It is a sort of inverse sublimity; exalting, as it...is above us. The former is scarcely less precious than the latter ; perhaps it is still rarer, and, as a test of genius, still more decisive. If that... | |
 | 1919 - 434 pages
...existence * * * 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. — Carlyle. Humor, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its objects in a genial and abiding... | |
 | William Charles Loosmore - 1920 - 246 pages
...True humour springs not more from the head than the heart ; it is not contempt ; its essence is love. It is a sort of inverse sublimity, exalting, as it...draws down into our affections what is above us." Hence it is that the greatest amongst us can laugh, even when they are under the domination of the... | |
 | Gertrude Frances Lanzer - 1928 - 86 pages
...forms of existence 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'. So wird der Humor zur Lebenskunst. Erhabenes und Komisches sind unmittelbar miteinander verbunden kraft... | |
 | Dianna Daniels Booher - 2003 - 316 pages
...—GERMAN PROVERB 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 in still smiles, which lie far deeper. —THOMAS CARLYLE The top fifty all-time biggest box-office hits include far more dramas than comedies.... | |
 | Larry Chang - 2006 - 826 pages
...Sartor Resartus, 1834 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 in still smiles, which lie far deeper. ~ Carlyle ~ laugh. Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods. ~ Japanese Saying ~ Laughter gives... | |
 | 1923 - 160 pages
...assertion 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...while sublimity draws down into our affections what is ahove us." The essence of humor Carlyle conceives to be "sensibility; warm and tender fellowfeeling... | |
 | 1873 - 306 pages
...said, "springs not more from the head than from the heart; it is not contempt, its essence is Jove ; it issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which...sublimity draws down into our affections what is above us. It is, in fact, the bloom and perfume, the purest effluence of a deep, fine and loving nature." Without... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1888 - 926 pages
...following 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 in still smiles, which He far deeper. It is a sort of inverse sublimity exalting as it were into our affections what is below... | |
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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. 
