 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 305των Popular educator - 1872Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | 1872 - 556 σελίδες
...CHEERFULNESS. I HAYE 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1872 - 660 σελίδες
..." 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 subject to the greatest depression... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - 610 σελίδες
...any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clonds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." — Дошsoя ; Speetator, p. 381, as a contemptible... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 σελίδες
...No. 249. 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. Thotie are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth who are subject to the greatest depressions... | |
 | 1879 - 446 σελίδες
..." 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...permanent. 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... | |
 | James Moir - 1880 - 204 σελίδες
...1843. 330. 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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 σελίδες
...No. 249. I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth who are subject to the greatest depressions... | |
 | 1881 - 578 σελίδες
...— Anon. I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former than that this universal frame is without a mind. And therefore God never wrought mira Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth who are subject to the greatest depressions... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 732 σελίδες
...Anecdotes. " 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 ihe greatest transports of mirth who are subject to the greatest depression... | |
 | Definitions - 1881 - 160 σελίδες
...Watts. — B— 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, or fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." Addison. — « — Miser — The martyr to Mammon.... | |
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