 Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth, who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy. On the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such...  The popular educator - Σελίδα 3051872Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | William Scott - 1814 - 407 σελίδες
...Spectator. 8. I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of the mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth, who are subject to the greatest depressions... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1814 - 230 σελίδες
...into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like vflash of lightning that breaks thro' a gloom of clouds, and glitters »' for a moment ; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a steady ami perpetu.il serenity. 2. .Men of austere principles look u.;on mirth... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1815
...sorrow. Mirth is like a Hash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters fur a moment ; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and nils it with a steady and perpetual serenity." Mirth is sinful. 1. When men rejoice in that which... | |
 | George Crabb - 1816 - 772 σελίδες
...Т have always preferred cheerfiUntet to mirth : (lie latter I consider as an act, the former as an habit of the mind. Mirth Is short and transient. Cheerfulness fixed and permanent. ADDISON. Mankind may he divided into the merry and the serlou*, who both of them make a very good ñgnre... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816
...have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a hnbit of the mind Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth, who are subject to the greatest depressions... | |
 | William Scott - 1817 - 407 σελίδες
...any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment ; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. Spectator. 9. At the same time that I think discretion... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1819
...ANON. I HAVE always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as an habit of the mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth, who are o-Hpct to the greatest depressions... | |
 | William Scott - 1819 - 360 σελίδες
...Spectator. 8. I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of the mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transport? of mirth, who are subject to the greatest depressions... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1821
...any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment ; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." Mirth is -sinful, 1. When men rejoice in that which... | |
 | Moral essays - 1821
...any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment ; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, &nd fills it with a steady and perpetual se* fenity. » Men of austere principles look upon mirth sis... | |
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