...the distance between the two shall be adjusted, with a reference to the pithy maxim which declares, that " there is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous." As, however, we have no wish to prevent the author from pleading his own cause, we shall extract his...

...and repose, which he derives therefrom in his infancy; Sheridan replied, " Truly hath it been said, that there is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. All children who are brought up by hand must derive their pleasurable sensations from a very different...

...residence one of the monuments of snow, which now towered so nobly on the surrounding heights. It is said, that there is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous, and it is equally certain, that there is but one stage from the fearful to the ludicrous. To say that...

...residence one of the monuments of snow, which now towered so nobly on the surrounding heights. It 18 said, that there is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous, and it is equally certain, that there is but one stage from the fearful to the ludicrous. To say that...

...science in this astonishing exhibition ; but, as is unhappily her ladyship's tact, she has forgotten that there is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous ; and this she ought to have found has been always fatal in her always talented works. My aunt was...

...thanks of the Meeting were given to the Press and SIR GEORGE BOWYER." This convinces ns more than ever, that there is only one step from the Sublime to the Ridiculous. How strangely astonished SIR GEOHGB must have been to have found himself thrust into such intellectual...

...Although Mr. O'Neill was capable of using his pen in classic lore he fulfilled the common saying, " That there is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous," by descending to many whimsical productions ; one in particular, — a song on the 'Exhibition in 1851,'...

...and repose, which he derives therefrom in his infancy; Sheridan replied, "Truly hath it been said, that there is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. All children who are brought up by hand must derive their pleasurable sensations from a very different...

...and repose, which he derives therefrom in his infancy ; Sheridan replied, " Truly hath it been said, that there is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. All children who are brought up by hand must derive their pleasurable sensations from a very different...

...and tone of the Miltonic verse that ill agrees with the spirit of parody, travesty, or caricature. If there is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous, there is only one step from the ridiculous to the sublime. The sense of ridicule is lost in the elevation...