...of his dearest friend. There is something that is suggestive in the lines of Thomas Hood, " There 's not a string attuned to mirth But has its chord in melancholy." While Governor of Kentucky, he sent to the Hon. Stoddart Johnston a certificate, officially signed...

...Kxplain the following: " There is no music in the life That sounds with empty laughter wholly; There's not a string attuned to mirth But has its chord in melancholy. ' ' What doos the skylark mean to Shelley .' If we think only of being happy shall we be very helpful...

...Explain the following: "There is no music in the life That sounds with empty laughter wholly; There's not a string attuned to mirth But has its chord in melancholy." What does the skylark mean to Shelley? If we think only of being happy shall we be very helpful to...

...of his dearest friend. There is something that is suggestive in the lines of Thomas Hood, " There 's not a string attuned to mirth But has its chord in melancholy." While Governor of Kentucky, he sent to the Hon. Stoddart Johnston a certificate, officially signed...

...tears, and musings holy I There is no music in the life That sounds with idiot laughter solely; There 's not a string attuned to mirth, But has its chord in Melancholy. K Perhaps it is the fatalistic pun on what might be and what is, luring the mind from beneath the more...

...sorrow, and Hood's apparent gaiety often sprang from a suffering heart. As he himself wrote, "There's not a string attuned to mirth, But has its chord in melancholy." Again, in science, we have the noble instance of the suffering Wollaston, even in the last stages of...

...tears, and musings holy ! There is no music in the life That sounds with idiot laughter solely; There 's not a string attuned to mirth, But has its chord in Melancholy. Perhaps it is the fatalistic pun on what might be and what is, luring the mind from beneath the more...

...as the ridiculous and the sublime. Masters of pathos have always been endowed with humour. " There's not a string attuned to mirth, But has its Chord in Melancholy," writes Hood, no mean illustration of the fact. Who can say which moves us most, the humour or the pathos...

...and is ours sings: " There is no music in the life That sounds with empty laughter wholly ; There's not a string attuned to mirth, But has its chord in melancholy." Well, this is the secret of the humor which scalds like tears. The wind was tempered to the shorn Lambs,...

...a little while ago is universally true of all humor which has any lasting hold upon us — there's not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord in melancholy. When we consider Hood's work on this side, then — when we read what for want of a better name we...