...With that he call'd the tailor— lown." By the way, this quotation aptly illustrates Burke's remark, that " there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous." Thus, for instance, the first line conveys to the mind the idea of a grand and magnificent monarch...

...meadows. It is the strangest transmogrification ever coiy;eived, and practically proves the old axiom, " that there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous." But I am not going to take the ridiculous side at present, and instead of preaching a sermon on the...

...meadows. It is the strangest transmogrification ever conceived, and practically proves the old axiom, " that there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous." But I am not going to take the ridiculous side at present, and instead of preaching a sermon on the...

...give the last kick, grab the box, or Peggy will steal it, by J ' The remark attributed to Napoleon, ' that there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous,' was here fully exemplified. He had previously requested the same friend to select him a suitable burial-place...

...are fifty phrases in daily use which illustrate my proposition. For instance, that extremes meet, — that there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous, — that women never knovr their own minds. Or, to give more forcible and touching illustrations, who...

...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...

...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 • —...

...woods and thickets ! The very attempt would lead to their extermination, thereby adducing a new proof that there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. The truth is, that the law prohibiting such settlement was practically a dead letter, and must remain...

...fellow-men of how dangerous a thing it is to act the artificial instead of the natural. How true it is that there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous, and that extremities meet. In this instance, the graceful has merged into the disgraceful. Why should...

...woods and thickets ! The very attempt would lead to their extermination, thereby adducing a new proof that there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. The truth is, that the law prohibiting such settlement was practically a dead letter, and must remain...