 | George Henry Lewes - 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... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1848 - 524 pages
...most depends the colour of our lives, and determines our being happy or miserable. 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. Had... | |
 | Joseph Bullar - 1850 - 164 pages
...too deeply in earnest? "The world," said Horace Walpole, with more seriousness than is common to him, "is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel, — a solution of why Democritus laughed, and Heraclitus wept." REPOSE AND NONCHALANCE. As hypocrisy has been so well... | |
 | Anna Bache - 1852 - 232 pages
...bedstead, bought by a broker and dealer in second-hand furniture, and by him placed in his shop. " The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel." This saying might well be applied to Mr. Farrell's shop. What an incongruous medly did it contain !... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1857 - 566 pages
...most depends the colour of our lives, and determines our being happy or miserable. 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. Had... | |
 | John Shaw (M.D.) - 1857 - 324 pages
...deeply in earnest ? " The world," said Horace Walpole, with more seriousness than is common to him, " is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel — a solution of why Democritus laughed, and Heraclitus wept." Yes, reader, life is neither a joke practical nor... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1857 - 560 pages
...has written a copy to Garrick, in which he disclaims ambition.1 Recollect what I have said to you, that this world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those whofeel! This is the quintessence of all I have learnt in fifty years ! Adieu.! 1305. TO SIR HORACE... | |
 | 1857 - 692 pages
...spirit blends itself ! My liege, there is no other marriage tie! " Tj1 G li. 9. Quotation. — " Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel." Whence ? MEHCATOB, AB Colours for Glass. — What kinds of colours are the best for painting on glass,... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1857 - 838 pages
...ON THE CEEATION OF THE UNIVERSE, AND ON THE ORIGIN OF KNOWLEDGE. CHAPTER I. § 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... | |
 | 1858 - 798 pages
...iv. 129.)— In a letter from Walpole to Sir Horace Mann, dated Arlington Street, Dec. 31, 1769, he says: " I have often said, and oftener think, that...comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feet, — a Solution why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept." And in another letter to the same,... | |
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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. 
