...LECTURES on THE COMIC WRITERS, &c. OF GREAT BRITAIN. LECTURE I.— INTRODUCTORY. ON WIT AND HUMOUR. MAN is the only animal that laughs and weeps ; for he...what only disappoints our expectations in trifles. We shed tears from sympathy with real and necessary distress ; as we burst into laughter from want...

...LECTURES THE COMIC WRITERS, &c. OF GREAT BRITAIN. LECTURE I.— INTRODUCTORY. ON WIT AND HUMOUR. I MA 1ST is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is...struck with the difference between what things are, and wHt they ought to he.f We weep at what thwarts or exceeds \ our desires in serious matters : we laugh...

...Last Century 178 LECTURES ENGLISH COMIC WEITEES. LECTURE I— INTRODUCTORY. On Wit and Humour. MAN is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the [A only animal that is struck with the difference between what I things are, and what they ought to...

...wonderfully fine until the hill is sent in and the costs arc paid. MAN is the only animal that langhs and weeps ; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference hetween what things are, and what they ought to he. , THE Athenians, at a time when they were the most...

...Last Century 178 LECTURES ENGLISH COMIC WRITEBS. LECTURE I.— INTRODUCTORY. On Wit and Humour. MAN is the only animal that laughs and weeps ; for he...what only disappoints our expectations in trifles. We shed tears from sympathy with real and necessary distress ; as we burst into laughter from want...

...with my hat for a writing-desk. Thackeray seems blest with an intuitive perception for distinguishing the difference between what things are and what they ought to be. " The world is a stage " and men are players, but he has a box to himself, and an opera glass with...

...long endurance : for as language ripens, and the meaning - — , * * [Hazlitt observes : — " Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps ; for he...serious matters ; we laugh at what only disappoints our expectationa in trifles. We shed tears from sympathy with real and necessary distress; as we burst...

...ripens, and the meaning * [Hazlitt observes:—"Man is the only animal thatlaughs and weeps ; for ne is the only animal that is struck with the difference...serious matters; we laugh at what only disappoints our expectation» iii tritios. We fthed tears from sympathy with real and necessary distress ; as we burst...

...ripens, aud the meaning * [Hazlitt observes: — "Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps ; for ne is the only animal that is struck with "the difference...serious matters ; we laugh at what only disappoints our expectation» in trifles. We shed tears from sympathy with real and necessary distress; as we burst...

...touch the one, and, by a slight transition, the other may be evoked. It has been well said that " man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is...animal that is struck with the difference between things as they are and things as they ought to be." Shakspere saw all this and more ; he saw that man's...