 | William Hazlitt - 1819 - 360 trang
...LECTURE I.— INTRODUCTORY. ON WIT AND HUMOUR. MAN is the only animal that laughs and weeps ; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference...serious matters : we laugh at what only disappoints our expectations in trifles. We shed tears from sympathy with real and necessary distress ; as we burst... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1819 - 368 trang
...LECTURE I.— INTRODUCTORY. ON WIT AND HUMOUR. I MA 1ST 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 wHt they ought to he.f We weep at what thwarts or exceeds \ our desires in serious matters : we laugh... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 512 trang
...LECTURE I.—INTRODUCTORY. On Wit and Humour. MAN is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference...serious matters: we laugh at what only disappoints our expectations in trifles. We shed tears from sympathy with real and necessary distress; as we burst... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 242 trang
...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 be. We weep at...serious matters : we laugh at what only disappoints our expectations in trifles. We shed tears from sympathy with real and necessary distress ; as we burst... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 980 trang
...LECTURE I.— INTRODUCTORY. On Wit and Humour. MAN is the only animal that laughs and weeps ; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference...serious matters : we laugh at what only disappoints our expectations in trifles. We shed tears from sympathy with real and necessary distress ; as we burst... | |
 | George Washington Bungay - 1854 - 506 trang
...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 trang
...meaning - — , * * [Hazlitt observes : — " Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps ; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference...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 trang
...: for as language ripens, and the meaning * [Hazlitt observes:—"Man is the only animal thatlaughs and weeps ; for ne is the only animal that is struck...we laugh at what only disappoints our expectation» iii tritios. We fthed tears from sympathy with real and necessary distress ; as we burst into laughter... | |
 | 1867 - 548 trang
...those we have been suggesting : — ' Man,' he says, ' is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference...serious matters ; we laugh at what only disappoints our expectations in trifles.' The aspects in which we have now considered Ridicule seem to harmonize well... | |
 | 1867 - 850 trang
...in.' he says, ' is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is strurk with the difference between what things are and what...at what thwarts or exceeds our desires in serious mat ers; we laujhat what only disappoints our expectations in trifles.' The aspects in which we have... | |
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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. 
