 The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again...  Curiosities of Literature - Page 462by Isaac Disraeli - 1807Full view - About this book
 | 1804 - 452 pages
...understandings, and even by judicious minds, who are without imagination. He tells us, that the sublime and ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step below the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime. Perhaps... | |
 | Thomas Paine - Political science - 1819 - 758 pages
...as Guy Faux carried his dark lanthorn, and taken them out to shine as he might happen to want them. The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly...step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again: the account however, abstracted from the poetical fancy, shews the ignorance of Joshua, for he should... | |
 | Thomas Paine - Chistianity and politics - 1822 - 254 pages
...carried his dark lanthorn, and taken them out to shine as he might happen to want them. The suhlime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that...it is difficult to class them separately. One step ahove the suhlime makes the ridiculous, and one step ahove the ridiculous makes the suhlime again:... | |
 | Richard Carlile - Censorship - 1822 - 242 pages
...lanthorn, and taken them out to shine as he might happen to want them. " The sublime and the ridiculons are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately, Ona step above the sublime makes the ridiculons, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime... | |
 | Thomas Paine - Rationalism - 1824 - 420 pages
...as Guy Faux carried his dark lanthorn, and taken them out to shine as he might happen to want them. The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly...sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiclous makes the sublime again : the account, however, abstracted from the poetical fancy, shews... | |
 | Thomas Paine - Christianity - 1827 - 186 pages
...as Guy Faux carried his dark lan'J,orn, and taken them out to shine as he might happen to want them. The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly...the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above tha ridiculous makes the subli.ne ag,ln : the account, however, abstracted from the poetical fancy,... | |
 | Thomas Paine - Rationalism - 1832 - 400 pages
...as Guy Faux carried his dark lanthorn, and taken them out to shine as he might happen to want them. The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly...step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again : the account, however, abstracted from the poetical fancy, shows the ignorance of Joshua, for he should... | |
 | James Smith - Bible - 1843 - 728 pages
...as Guy Fawkes carried his dark lantern, and taken them out to shine as he might happen to want them. The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly...step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again; the account, however, abstracted from the poetical fancy, shows the ignorance of Joshua, for he should... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1867 - 696 pages
...Napoleon's saying. " Du sublime au ridicule il n'ya qu'un pas," was evidently derived from Paine : — " The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to claw them separately. One step above the .sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - American literature - 1851 - 518 pages
...related, that it is difficult to claaa them separately. One step above the sublime make* the n :;> culous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.' May I venture tu illustrate this opiniun? Would it not appear the ridiculous or burlesque, to decribe the sublime... | |
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