...an illustration of the saying most rife upon his lips, immediately after his flight from Smorgoni, that there is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous. He passed the Niemen as the head of half a million ; he recrossed the frontier of Russia slouching...

...motion, and cannot therefore be represented by any fixed and permanent colour. Let him also remember, that there is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous. This gaudy ribbon and vulgar nosegay style of painting is a complete mistake, and as friends and warm...

...good, and rendering himself beloved, he did mischief, and created enemies. It has been truly said, that there is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous. The Emperor Joseph, in his conduct, exemplified the observation to the fullest extent. At the same...

...wretches are refusing from them with disdain. Painters as well as princes ought certainly to remember " that there is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous." Whilst I was at Madrid a proclamation was issued by the government, abolishing all convents which did...

...friend, when I was again surprised to see him become perfectly calm. " Did you never hear," said he, " that there is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous ?" " Yes, a thousand times ; but what can you mean ?" (somewhat doubting his sanity.) " Nothing ; only...

...good, and rendering himself beloved, he did mischief, and created enemies. It has been truly said, that there is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous. The Emperor Joseph, in his conduct, exemplified the observation to the fullest extent. At the same...

...good, and rendering himself beloved, he did mischief, and created enemies. It has been truly said, that there is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous. The Emperor Joseph, in his conduct, exemplified the observation to the fullest extent. At the same...

...good, and rendering himself beloved, he did mischief, and created enemies. It has been truly said, that there is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous. The Emperor Joseph, in his conduct, exemplified the observation to the fullest extent. At the same...

...BY ALBANY FOYNTZ. ' The first Link in the scale of Creation.' — Occasional Sermon. • WE are told that there is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous. It may be observed, with equal truth, that between the mobs of the great world and the swell mob there...

...LINEMAN. BY ALBANY POTNTZ. ' The first Link in the scale of Creation.' — Occasional Sernum. WE are told that there is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous. It may be observed, with equal truth, that between the mobs of the great world and the swell mob there...