 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 376 σελίδες
...transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. — Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks througha gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." He considers cheerfulness in three points of view, as it regards ourselves, or those we converse with,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 378 σελίδες
...just and beautiful. " Mirth," says he, "is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. — Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters fora moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a steady and... | |
 | William Enfield - 1805 - 456 σελίδες
...fuch :m exquilite gladnefs, prevents U5 from falling into any depths of forrow. Mirth is like a fiafh of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulnefs keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a fteady and perpetual ferenity.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 346 σελίδες
...cheerfulness, though it does not Vf*t. XII. B giro the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents »is from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. Men of austere principles look upon mirth as too wanton and dissolute for a state of probation, and... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1807 - 508 σελίδες
...contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from talling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of...the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual seremty." ' . MISANTHROPIST, w**9fovns, a hater of mankind ; one that abandons society from a principle... | |
 | James Beattie - 1807 - 444 σελίδες
...a cheerful friend is always welcome, and one of the greatest comforts of life. Mirth, says Addison, is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a...glitters for a moment : cheerfulness keeps up a kind of sunshine in the soul, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. A cheerful man is master of... | |
 | William Enfield - 1808 - 434 σελίδες
...greatest depressions of melancholy : on the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. Men of austere principles look upon mirth as too wanton and dissolute for a state of probation, and... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1809 - 202 σελίδες
...greatest depressions of melancholy ; qn the contrary, cheerfulness, though &. does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling...through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment j cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 σελίδες
...greatest depressions of melancholly. On the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling...of clouds, and glitters for a moment ; cheerfulness . jlie^ps' up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady •' ' ami perpetual serenity.... | |
 | Abner Alden - 1814 - 222 σελίδες
...depressions of melancholy : on the contrary, cheeifulness, though it does not give the mind such an extensive gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths...of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that bteaks through a gloom of cloucs, and glitters for a moment ; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light... | |
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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... 
