...perpetrating the Highland fling ! Never did Napoleon utter a more original truth than when he said, that there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous — Colonsay must have felt that as keenly as we did — lunghter convulsed our diaphragms— and so...

...restrain the eyes from looking into the laboratory, where the thunders of his powers were forging; he knew that there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous, and that if the sublime were his throne, the ridiculous would be his grave. In this con'strained posture...

...threw out his foot, it seemed as if every pace were doomed to illustrate the truth of the dictum — that there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. Cold, haughty, and repulsive in his demeanour, he received the welcome of Lady Trevanian, which was...

...sledge, and unknown, escaped death if not shame, to carry the first news of his defeat to his capital. " That there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous," was his consolation. VOL. u. 38 The French left the ruins of Moscow (the Kremlin having been blown...

...country, The Wellington administration promised much, and performed but little. Napoleon has said, that there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous ; and the DuUe of Wellington has proved that there is but one step from the ridiculous to the tragical....

...without being chivalrous; sometimes humane, seldom generous; insatiable in ambition; inexhaustible in resources; without a thirst for blood, but totally...concerned ; without any fixed ideas on religion, but a strong perception of its necessity as a part of the mechanism of government; a great general with...

...reading market. There is certainly nothing which may not be burlesqued. It is easy enough to conceive that there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. A little hero (and almost all heroes are little), cuts but a sorry figure in a picture-window, with...

...sledge, and unknown, escaped death if not shame, to carry the first news of his defeat to his capital. " That there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous," was his only consolation. The French left the ruins of Moscow, (the Kremlin having Public been blown...

...perpetrating the Highland fling ! Never did Napoleon utter a more original truth than when he said, that there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous — Colonsay must have felt that as keenly as we did — laughter convulsed our diaphragms — and...

...reading market. There is certainly nothing which may not be burlesqued. It is easy enough to conceive that there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. A little hero (and almost all heroes are little), cuts but a sorry figure in a picture-window, with...