 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 Works of William Makepeace Thackeray - Page 95by William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881Full view - About this book
 | Noah Webster - 1802 - 278 pages
...pitvents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is' like a ftar.ii of lightning that bresks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a ^moment ; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in tie mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual *ereJiity. • t 2 Men of austere principles look... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...transports of Mirth , who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy : on the contrary , Cheerfulness , though it does not give the mind such...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... | |
 | 1804 - 412 pages
...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...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. Cheerfulness is, in the first place, the best promoter of health. Repinings, and secret murmurs of... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...of mirth, who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy : on the contrary, chearfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite...through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment ; chearfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1804 - 254 pages
...fepths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds, ?.B«! glitters for a moment: Cheerfulness keeps up a kind...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. 2. Men of austere principles look upon mirth as too vranton and dissolute for a state of probation,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 376 pages
...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 - 370 pages
...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 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 346 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
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