"RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character di…"

"We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which…"

"Jane borrow'd maxims from a doubting school, And took for truth the test of ridicule; Lucy saw no such virtue in a je…"

"I wish to become a teacher of the Truth." "Are you prepared to be ridiculed, ignored and starving till you are forty-…"

"The sublime and ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. One step below …"

"It frequently happens that where the second line is sublime, the third, in which he meant to rise still higher, is pe…"

"That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the c…"

"I distrust those sentiments that are too far removed from nature, and whose sublimity is blended with ridicule; which…"

"L'on ne saurait mieux faire voir que le magnifique et le ridicule sont si voisins qu'ils se touchent."

"Ridiculum acri Fortius ac melius magnas plerumque secat res."