 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
 | William Russell - 1845 - 410 pages
...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...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. What... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1845 - 312 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...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 daylight... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...transports of mi'rth, who are su'bject/ to the greatest depre'ssions of melancholy : on the contrary, che'erfulness (though it does not give the mind such...exquisite 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... | |
 | Salem Town - 1847 - 420 pages
...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...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. 1 esteem a habit of benignity greatly preferable to munificence. The former is peculiar to great and... | |
 | 1851 - 316 pages
...thither — every warning alarms against the danger of its eternal loss. MIRTH AND CHEERFULNESS. — " Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through...and glitters for a moment. Cheerfulness keeps up a daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity." Addison. THE FAMILY ALTAR.... | |
 | C. T - 1847 - 350 pages
...occur, and even to meet misfortune with calm resignation and serenity. It has been well observed, that " Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; while cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual... | |
 | Goold Brown - 1848 - 324 pages
...thousand ways, is there no black or white ? — Pope. LESSON XVII.— RULE XIII. Cheerfulness f<eeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.— ^-Addison. King Solomon built a temple, and dedicated it to the Almighty. — Allen, The pleasures of sense resemble... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 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. 10. Never before were there so many opposing interests, passions, and principles committed to such... | |
 | 1851 - 278 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. Men of austere principles look upon mirth as too — wanton and dissolute for a state of probation,... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1851 - 442 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. Never before were there so many opposing interests, passions, and principles committed to such a decision.... | |
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