 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 British Essayists: Spectator - Página 1editado por - 1823Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Charles Buck - 1838 - 1574 páginas
...contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not -ive such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from .Jling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of...lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, ami glitters for a moment : cheerfulness Seeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and [ills it with... | |
 | 460 páginas
...my lot to die, May I pass away with the summer wind's sigh ! ANNIE EMMELINE P . Cambridge. MIBTH — Is like a flash of .lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment . but cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual... | |
 | M. S. - 1839 - 194 páginas
...These, and a thousand griefs, minute as these, Corrode our comforts, and destroy our peace. H. MORE. Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. L THE GRAVES OF A HOUSEHOLD. They grew in beauty side by side, They fill'd one home with glee — Their... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1839 - 524 páginas
...images of his own youthful days. Thus, says Addison. is cheerfulness preferable to mirth. " The one, is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment. The other, keeps up a kind of day-light on the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity."... | |
 | Brandon Turner - 1840 - 258 páginas
...soften, and unite A thousand ways, is there no black or white?" — Pope. LESSON XIII. RULE XIII. " Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind,...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." — Addison. ' ' The pleasures of sense resemble a foaming torrent : which, after a disorderly course,... | |
 | 1842 - 346 páginas
...lightning, thai breaks through a gloom of clouds, anc glitters for a moment ; cheerfulness keep a kiml of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity EDftorfal. THE NEW YEAR. — Once more we make our best hbw to the thousands of our fair readers, and... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1849 - 316 páginas
...cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind nuch an exquisite gladness, prevents us from fallinir into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that leaps through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment ; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of da) light... | |
 | Alexander Reid - 1843 - 122 páginas
...gladness, prevents us from falling into any depth of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, which breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment: cheerfulness keeps up 8 kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. 4. Discretion and... | |
 | William Russell - 1844 - 428 páginas
...the former as a hdbit of the mind. Mirth is short and transient, ch&erfulness fixed and permanent. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through...glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of ddylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. 2. The very actions which... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 páginas
...gla'dness) prevents us from falling into any de'pths-of -sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lTghtning, that breaks through a gloom of clou'ds, and glitters...look upon m'irth as too wa'nton and diss'olute for a stut.Y of prob'ation, and as filled with a certain triumph and insolence of h'eart, that are inconsistent... | |
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