 | Literature - 1864 - 672 pages
...be found iterating and reiterating in his letters a favourite apophthegm of his — that the world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. One might safely assume beforehand that a people of so histrionic a turn as the French would make good... | |
 | 1865 - 654 pages
...have been already published, including one which Lord Melbourne was fond of quoting : ' This world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy ' to those who feel.' Equally good, in the same genre, is one of Mrs. Piozzi's marginal notes on Dr. Wellesley's copy of... | |
 | Great Britain - 1867 - 972 pages
...JOHN WOOLLBY. je (Sasainsí. PUZZLES AND FALLACIES. "LiF»," said Horace Walpole, epigrammatically,'" is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel." And the вате may be said about the intellectual feuds of the old philosophera. As we examine the... | |
 | James Smith - Mathematics - 1869 - 492 pages
...Walpole, in one of his Letters to Sir Horace Mann, observes :—" This world is a comedy to those wlw think, a tragedy to those who feel" It has been well...REV. PROFESSOR WHITWORTH. BARKELEY HOUSE, SEAFORTH, 2i)th December, 1868. SIR, In your Letter of the I3th November you observed : — " / must decline... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1870 - 432 pages
...will be found iterating and reiterating in his letters a favourite apophthegm of his—that the world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. One might safely assume beforehand that a people of so histrionic a turn as the French would make good... | |
 | Francis Jacox - Bible - 1870 - 550 pages
...will be found iterating and reiterating in his letters a favourite apophthegm of his—that the world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. One might safely assume beforehand that a people of so histrionic a turn as the French would make good... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - Philosophy - 1871 - 894 pages
...of the orijin and limits of Knowledge. CHAPTEE I. § I. HERACLITDS. HORACE WALPOLE'S epigram, 'Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel,' may be applied to Democritus and Heraclitus, celebrated throughout antiquity as the laughing and the... | |
 | Miss Cornish - English fiction - 1871 - 400 pages
...but me. It would have been pleasant to me if I could see and not feel. Who is it says, 'This world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel'?" " And yet one could not endure to look upon life as a comedy." " No, I suppose, however much one suffered,... | |
 | Gleanings, A M V - 1873 - 116 pages
...seems to be. 1 88. Forsake thyself, resign thyself; and thou shalt enjoy much inward peace. 189. Life is a Comedy to those who think ; a Tragedy to those who feel. 190. Faith must contradict seemings. 191. The world is so much to us, only because God is so little.... | |
 | Edward Law Hussey - Quotations - 1873 - 172 pages
...Institution. — 'It is notorious that they have not,' he added. — V. PASSING THROUGH LIFE. world is a Comedy to those who think,- — a Tragedy to those who feel. — HORACE WALPOLE, Quarterly Review, vol. Ixxii. . . . But Democritus was a wiser man than Heraclitus.... | |
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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. 
