 | 1914 - 854 pages
...sufficiently shown in the various aphorisms that are used about it. For instance, Horace Walpole's "life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel," or the indubitably sage comment that if your comedian were to extend his play beyond the recognized... | |
 | Alexander Gardiner Mercer - 1899 - 222 pages
...their history seems an uneasy tossing from the abuses of a good idea to good not yet abused. " The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel," says Walpole, but to a mere thinker, untouched by sympathy for the scene, the impression must be a... | |
 | Juvenal - 1900 - 542 pages
...ßebat, ille ridebat. The tradition is well illustrated by Horace Walpole's favourite saying, ' Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who fee1.' 29. de liiiii n«. ' over his threshold.' 30. auctor, 'teacher': cf. Stat. Silv. ii 2, 113 Gargettius... | |
 | Noah Knowles Davis - 1900 - 312 pages
...establishing and maintaining. If from the drama of human life his part be left out, then indeed it were a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. But on recognizing him as its author, director, and principal personage, present throughout, combining,... | |
 | May Geraldine Frances Bateman - 1901 - 332 pages
...present — to point in the direction of the little line of trickling red. . . , CHAPTER II " Life is a comedy to those who think A tragedy to those who feel." " I'VE no patience with you, Fay. You're ridiculously quixotic." Mrs Stone turned impatiently towards... | |
 | Sir James Henry Yoxall - 1902 - 350 pages
...yeoman broke into a harsh laugh. "/ swan!" CHAPTER XVIII. TELLS OF THE DISCOVERY OF COPERNICUS. The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. —Letter to Sir Horace Mann. Hold out your dew-beaters till I take off the darbies. —Peveril of... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1904 - 490 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... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1904 - 472 pages
...to the fountain head ; yet I doubt M. d'Oeyras will discover a plot ; and lop some more noble heads. I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel — a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.... | |
 | 1903 - 898 pages
...innumerable blessings of life, \ve cannot expect to have no sorrows or anxieties. Life has been described as "a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel." It is indeed a tragedy at times and a comedy very often, but as a role it is what we choose to make... | |
 | 1881 - 398 pages
...Boileau. That virtue which requires ever to be guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel. — Goldsmith. The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. — Horace \Valpole. Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow... | |
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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. 
