 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 sivua
...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...the mi'nd, and fills it with a steady and perpetual sere'nity. Men of austere prin'ciples/ look upon m'irth as too wa'nton and diss'olute for a stut.Y... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1845 - 312 sivua
...prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that leaps through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment...daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady, perpetual serenity. 2. If we consider cheerfulness in three lights, with regard to ourselves, to those... | |
 | Merritt Caldwell - 1845 - 348 sivua
...consider as an act, cheerfulness — as a habit of the mind. Mirth — is like a flash of lightning, that glitters for a moment; cheerfulness — keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind. 4. Men will wrangle for religion ; write for it; fight for it; die for it; any thing but — live for... | |
 | Merritt Caldwell - 1846 - 390 sivua
...consider as an act, cheerfulness — as a hahit of the mind. Mirth — is like a flash of lightning, that glitters for a moment ; cheerfulness — keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind. 4. Men will wrangle for religion ; write for it; fight for it; die for it; any thing but — live for... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1842 - 316 sivua
...cheerfulness, though it does not give the miad such an exquisite gladness, prevents us frorn falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that leaps through a gloom of clouds, and glitter* for a moment ; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight... | |
 | Salem Town - 1847 - 420 sivua
...transient ; cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through the gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness...the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. 1 esteem a habit of benignity greatly preferable to munificence. The former is peculiar to... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 410 sivua
...cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of...through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment ; 1 See No. 294. cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1898 - 828 sivua
...gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mil th is like a flash of lightning th.it breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for...moment ; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in th^ mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity."— ADDISON : Spectator, No. 381. STEELE... | |
 | George Gregory Smith - 1898 - 318 sivua
...Chearfulx ness, tho' it does not give the Mind such an exquisite Gladness, prevents us from falling into any Depths of Sorrow, Mirth is like a Flash of Lightning, that breaks thro' No,381, thro 1 a Gloom of Clouds, and glitters for a Moment; Saturday, Chearfulness keeps up... | |
 | Frederick Henry Sykes - 1900 - 232 sivua
...cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of...the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. —Joseph Addison. From " The Spectator" STUDY OF EXPOSITION.—The foregoing paragraph shows... | |
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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... 
