 ... one of the lividly ludicrous, whom we cannot laugh at, but must contemplate, to distinguish where their character strikes the note of discord with life; for otherwise, in the reflection of their history, life will seem a thing demoniacally inclined...  The Three Heron's Feathers - Pàgina 252per Hermann Sudermann - 1900 - 234 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | George Meredith - 1881 - 286 pàgines
...stamped him a tragic comedian: that is, a grand pretender, a self-deceiver, one of the lividly ludicrous, whom we cannot laugh at, but must contemplate, to...demoniacally inclined by fits to antic and dive into gulfs. The characters of the hosts of men are of the simple order of the comic; not many are of a stature... | |
 | George Meredith - 1881 - 332 pàgines
...stamped him a tragic comedian : that is, a grand pretender, a selfdeceiver, one of the lividly ludicrous, whom, we cannot laugh at, but must contemplate, to...demoniacally inclined by fits to antic and dive into gulfs. The characters of the hosts of men are of the simple order of the comic ; not many are of a stature... | |
 | Richard Le Gallienne - 1890 - 278 pàgines
...Mr. Meredith, of Alvan, "that is, a great pretender, a selfdeceiver, one of the lividly ludicrous, whom we cannot laugh at, but must contemplate, to...character strikes the note of discord with life." But the measure of the disproportion to life of a soul of such high seriousness as Alvan's, though... | |
 | George Meredith - 1898 - 224 pàgines
...stamped him a tragic comedian: that is, a grand pretender, a selfdeceiver, one of the lividly ludicrous, whom we cannot laugh at, but must contemplate, to...demoniacally inclined by fits to antic and dive into gulfs. The characters of the hosts of men are of the simple order of the comic; not many are of a stature... | |
 | George Meredith - 1898 - 230 pàgines
...tfeeir character strikes the note oi discord with life ; for otherwise, in"the reflection of tKeif history, """life will seem a thing demoniacally inclined by fits to antic and dive into gulfs. T,he characters of the hosts of men are of the simple order of the comic ; not many are of a stature... | |
 | 1900 - 642 pàgines
...before them. And she has thrown away their help — yet she still hopes. Alvan sends a challenge to her father. Prince Marko accepts it, and now her shuddering...message. We have eaten of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and the power to choose between the two has entered into our souls. We... | |
 | George Meredith - 1910 - 232 pàgines
...stamped him a tragic comedian: that is, a grand pretender, a selfdeceiver, one of the lividly ludicrous, whom we cannot laugh at, but must contemplate, to...demoniacally inclined by fits to antic and dive into gulfs. The characters of the hosts of men are of the simple order of the comic; not many are of a stature... | |
 | George Meredith - 1916 - 248 pàgines
...of the lividly ludicrous, whom we cannot laugh at, but must contemplate, to distinguish where then- character strikes the note of discord with life ;...demoniacally inclined by fits to antic and dive into gulfs. The characters of the hosts of men are of the simple order of the comic ; not many are of a stature... | |
 | Robert Charles Rathburn, Martin Steinmann - 1958 - 342 pàgines
...stamped him a tragic comedian: that is, a grand pretender, a self-deceiver, one of the lividly ludicrous, whom we cannot laugh at, but must contemplate, to...their character strikes the note of discord with life. . . . The characters of the hosts of men are of the simple order of the comic; not many are of a stature... | |
 | Robert C. Rathburn, Martin Steinmann - 1967 - 340 pàgines
...stamped him a tragic comedian: that is, a grand pretender, a self-deceiver, one of the lividly ludicrous, whom we cannot laugh at, but must contemplate, to...their character strikes the note of discord with life. . . . The characters of the hosts of men are of the simple order of the comic; not many are of a stature... | |
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