 After all, life has something serious in it. It cannot all be a comic history of humanity. Some men would, I believe, write the Comic Sermon on the Mount. Think of a Comic History of England ; the drollery of Alfred ; the fun of Sir Thomas More in the...  Some Literary Eccentrics - Sida 221efter John Fyvie - 1906 - 296 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1859 - 782 sidor
...however, that the world will get tired (at least, I hope so) of this eternal guffaw at all things. After all, life has something serious in it. It cannot...More in the Tower, the farce of his daughter begging the dead head, and clasping it in her coffin on her bosom. Surely the world will be sick of this blasphemy.'... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1859 - 368 sidor
...am convinced the world will get tired (at least I hope so) of this eternal guffaw about all things. After all, life has something serious in it. It cannot...history, of humanity. Some men would, I believe, write a Comic Sermon on the Mount. Think of a Comic History of England, the drollery of Alfred, the fun of... | |
 | John Camden Hotten - 1870 - 120 sidor
...A'Beckett's " Comic History of England") : "After all, life has something serious in it. It can not be all a comic history of humanity. Some men would,...More in the Tower ; the farce of his daughter begging the dead head, and clasping it in her coffin, on her bosom. Surely the world will be sick of this blasphemy."... | |
 | Blanchard Jerrold - 1872 - 502 sidor
...convinced that the world will get tired (at least I hope so) of this eternal guffaw at all things. After all, life has something serious in it. It cannot...More in the Tower ; the farce of his daughter begging the dead head, and clasping it in her coffin, on her bosom. Surely the world will be sick of this blasphemy.... | |
 | R. A. Hammond - 1871 - 450 sidor
...letter referred to by Dickens, had said (in deprecating Gilbert A'Beckett's Comi? History of England): " After all, life has something serious in it. It cannot...History of England ; the drollery of Alfred ; the fun of Thomas Moore in the Tower : the farce of his daughter begging the dead head, and clasping it in her... | |
 | John Camden Hotten - 1873 - 812 sidor
...don't get the paper * regularly. To the deprecating Gilbert A'Beckett's " Comic History of England"): " After all, life has something serious in it. It cannot...More in the Tower ; the farce of his daughter begging the dead head, and clasping it in her coffin, on her bosom. Surely the world will be sick of this blasphemy."... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1876 - 448 sidor
...am convinced the world will get tired (at least I hope so) of this eternal guffaw about all things. After all, life has something serious in it. It cannot...history of humanity. Some men, would, I believe, write a Comic Sermon on the Mount. Think of a Comic History of England, the drollery of Alfred, the fun of... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1878 - 402 sidor
...convinced the world will ire t tired, at least I hope so, of this eternal guffaw about all things. After all, life has something serious in it. It cannot be all comic history of liumani ty." — Doufflat Jfrrold. Saul asks David of Ilia lineage v. 68. See Clasi... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1881 - 856 sidor
...Xapolton ///..und otLe» work». humorists, be bad tenderness and pathos. 'After all,' he said, 'life bas something 'serious in it — it cannot be all a comic history of humanity.' Hence, amidst all the quips and turns of his fancy, the real mingles with the ideal, and shrewd, kindly... | |
 | Joseph Hatton - 1882 - 274 sidor
...of this eternal guffaw at all things. After all, life has something serious in it. It cannot all be a comic history of humanity. Some men would, I believe,...More in the Tower ; the farce of his daughter begging the dead head, and clasping it, in her coffin, on her bosom. Surely the world will be sick of this... | |
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