 | William Hazlitt - 1819 - 360 pagina’s
...LECTURES on THE COMIC WRITERS, &c. OF GREAT BRITAIN. LECTURE I.— INTRODUCTORY. ON WIT AND HUMOUR. MAN is the only animal that laughs and weeps ; for he...what only disappoints our expectations in trifles. We shed tears from sympathy with real and necessary distress ; as we burst into laughter from want... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1819 - 368 pagina’s
...LECTURES THE COMIC WRITERS, &c. OF GREAT BRITAIN. LECTURE I.— INTRODUCTORY. ON WIT AND HUMOUR. I MA 1ST is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is...struck with the difference between what things are, and wHt they ought to he.f We weep at what thwarts or exceeds \ our desires in serious matters : we laugh... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 242 pagina’s
...Last Century 178 LECTURES ENGLISH COMIC WEITEES. LECTURE I— INTRODUCTORY. On Wit and Humour. MAN is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the [A only animal that is struck with the difference between what I things are, and what they ought to... | |
 | 430 pagina’s
...wonderfully fine until the hill is sent in and the costs arc paid. MAN is the only animal that langhs and weeps ; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference hetween what things are, and what they ought to he. , THE Athenians, at a time when they were the most... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 980 pagina’s
...Last Century 178 LECTURES ENGLISH COMIC WRITEBS. LECTURE I.— INTRODUCTORY. On Wit and Humour. MAN is the only animal that laughs and weeps ; for he...what only disappoints our expectations in trifles. We shed tears from sympathy with real and necessary distress ; as we burst into laughter from want... | |
 | George Washington Bungay - 1854 - 500 pagina’s
...with my hat for a writing-desk. Thackeray seems blest with an intuitive perception for distinguishing the difference between what things are and what they ought to be. " The world is a stage " and men are players, but he has a box to himself, and an opera glass with... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1855 - 498 pagina’s
...long endurance : for as language ripens, and the meaning - — , * * [Hazlitt observes : — " Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps ; for he...serious matters ; we laugh at what only disappoints our expectationa in trifles. We shed tears from sympathy with real and necessary distress; as we burst... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1859 - 512 pagina’s
...ripens, and the meaning * [Hazlitt observes:—"Man is the only animal thatlaughs and weeps ; for ne is the only animal that is struck with the difference...serious matters; we laugh at what only disappoints our expectation» iii tritios. We fthed tears from sympathy with real and necessary distress ; as we burst... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1859 - 512 pagina’s
...ripens, aud the meaning * [Hazlitt observes: — "Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps ; for ne is the only animal that is struck with "the difference...serious matters ; we laugh at what only disappoints our expectation» in trifles. We shed tears from sympathy with real and necessary distress; as we burst... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1879 - 806 pagina’s
...touch the one, and, by a slight transition, the other may be evoked. It has been well said that " man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is...animal that is struck with the difference between things as they are and things as they ought to be." Shakspere saw all this and more ; he saw that man's... | |
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MAN is the only animal that laughs and weeps ; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be. 
