...but not to leap the gulf alone." (Makes desperate lea'i on stage.) PROF. Hold ! Mr. S., you well know that there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous, and why do you murder that sublime passage ? PUPIL. I was merely following out the teachings of Domosthenes...

...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...

...grave hymn, which went through and through me, Sut was very well sung. "AcKERMAN, Master-Locksmith." THAT there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous received fresh illustration recently in Atchison, Kansas, where n grief-stricken mother was compelled...

...is common to all children, allowance must be made for the peculiarities of their race. If it is true that there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous, the reverse also must hold good ; and thus it may not be improper to pass from the lowest iu the social...

...when the Greek forms are used in the construction of small buildings, the old maxim is illustrated, that " there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous." GENERAL CONSTRUCTION. every-day uses, we are obliged to depart from the model in these two important...

...was then, it was on that evermemorable occasion, that Bonaparte uttered the ever-memorable words, ' There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.' In the eye of Heaven, perhaps, he was just as ridiculous while marching to Russia at the head of his grand...

...rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green — one red." It has been indeed truly said that there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. That step may be made by a point falsely placed. The necessity of punctuation may be illustrated by...

...that they mean what they say, and are truly the subject of religious influences. If even it is true that there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous it is especially the case with the dipsomaniac, who may to-day electrify by his earnestness for temperance...

...my mind with the richest associations, as I sat alone waiting for my fellow-travellers. It is said that there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous ; and I certainly felt the truth of the proverb when, amidst the ruins of Ephesus, I was recalled from...

...littleness of the works of man compared with those of the Creator. PALACIO REAL. — It is a common remark that there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous, and this the reader will believe to be verified when after all the magnificent descriptions he has...