 | English literature - 1833 - 546 pages
...and laugh ; then all became doubt, strife, and bitterness within me — so true is it that '• Life is a comedy to those who think, A tragedy to those who feel." Mr. Deville soon explained to us all the" wacuums" and " horgans" in our respective craniums ; but... | |
 | Lady Catherine Pollock Manners Stepney - 1833 - 312 pages
...it attentively, and for the first time discovered the extent of her loveliness. CHAPTER VIII. " Life is a comedy to those who think — A tragedy to those who feel I" LADY BE LN OVINE and her companion, a young Swiss girl, were planning and making arrangements of... | |
 | 1833 - 484 pages
...and laugh ; then all became doubt, strife, and bitterness within rne — so true is it that '• Life is a comedy to those who think, A tragedy to those who feel." Mr. Deville soon explained to us all the " u-acuums" and " Itorgans" in our respective craniums; but... | |
 | Literature - 1833 - 488 pages
...and laugh; then all became doubt, strife, and bitterness within me — so true is it that • Life is a comedy to those who think, A tragedy to those who feel." Mr. Deville soon explained to us all the "uiocutiBtj" and "hor/fans" in our respective craniums ; but... | |
 | The Mirror of Literature,Amusement,and Instruction New Series VOL.IV - 1843 - 458 pages
...philanthropist, the Abbé de ГЕреe, was inaugurated at Versailles on the 25th of last month. — The world is a comedy to those who think— a tragedy to those who feel.— Horace Walpole. — " Mother," said a boy the other day, " is there any harm in breaking egg shells... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1843 - 492 pages
...copy to Garrick, in which he disclaims ambition. Recollect what I have said to you, that this world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel ! This is the quintessence of all I have learnt iii fifty years ! Adieu ! LETTER CXC. Arlington Street,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Strawberry Hill (Villa, England) - 1844 - 432 pages
...discover a plot, and lop some more noble heads. I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel — a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept. The only gainer is history, which has... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Strawberry Hill (Villa, England) - 1844 - 434 pages
...discover a plot, and lop some more noble heads. I have often said, and oftener think, thai this world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel—a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept. The only gainer is history, which... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - Philosophers - 1845 - 258 pages
...ANAXAGORAS. CHAP. III. EMPEDOCLES. CHAP. IV. DEMOCRITUS. THE SECOND EPOCH. CHAPTER I. HERACLITUS. " LIFE is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel." This, Horace Walpole's epigram, may be applied to Democritus and Heraclitus, celebrated throughout... | |
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I have often said, that this world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel ; and sensibility has not only occasion to suffer for others, but is sure of its own portion too. 
