 | 1887 - 480 σελίδες
...made a second attempt to explore the Aristotelian darkness, in which his first essay was totally lost. If there is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, it is not even a step from the absurd to the ludicrous and amusing. The professional wit or joker is... | |
 | 1904 - 850 σελίδες
...but to enliven and regenerate, — a recreation, and, as has been said, recreation is re-creation. If there is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous — a saying which has been attributed to both Napoleon and Tom Paine — it is quite as true that... | |
 | George Henry Nettleton - 1914 - 392 σελίδες
...tEem~ the ' grarioTrnanner ' became what .Scott, in another context, called the 'big bow-wow' style. If there is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, it is filled by the grotesque. Yet if heroic drama is grotesque, it is unfair to regard only its comic... | |
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If there is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, it is not even a step from the absurd to the ludicrous and amusing. 