 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
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - 306 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... | |
 | 1855 - 488 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 day-light in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. Enough has heaven indulg'd of joy below, To tempt... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 384 σελίδες
...observed, that while " 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." The matin-song of the lark was in ancient Greece... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 410 σελίδες
...observed, that while " 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." The matin-song of the lark was in ancient Greece... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 426 σελίδες
...observed, that while " 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." The matin-song of the lark was in ancient Greece... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 542 σελίδες
...HOR. I HATE 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 depressions... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 226 σελίδες
...1, I HAVE always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I' consider as an act, II3 the former as a habit of the mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. mirth who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy ; on the con'trary, cheerfulness, though... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 226 σελίδες
...CHEERFULNESS. 1. I HAVE always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act,113 the former as a habit of the mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. 2 Those are often raised into the greatest transports17 of mirth who are subject to the greatest depressions... | |
 | 1857 - 240 σελίδες
...CHEERFULNESS. 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... | |
 | John Richardson Major - 1858 - 216 σελίδες
...contempt. IX. 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... | |
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