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...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 sivua
...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...the mind, 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... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1839 - 524 sivua
...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 sivua
...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... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1849 - 316 sivua
...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... | |
 | 1842 - 346 sivua
...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,... | |
 | Alexander Reid - 1843 - 122 sivua
...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 sivua
...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... | |
 | William Russell - 1845 - 410 sivua
...the former as a hdbit of the mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through...the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. 2. The very actions which they have only riad I have partly slen, and pdrtly myself achieved.... | |
 | John Hall - 1845 - 354 sivua
...personal worth, against them. Mirth' is short' and transient' : cheerfulness* fixed and permanent*. Mirth is like a flash of lightning' that breaks through...the mind*, and fills it with a steady' and perpetual serenity. I esteem a habit of benignity' greatly preferable to munificence*. The former is peculiar... | |
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... 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... 
