 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 418 páginas
...is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind. Here the words in Italic take no visible pause after them, without violence to grammatical relation.... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1829 - 614 páginas
...subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy ; on me contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling...lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glittei-s foc a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-j light in the mind, and fills it with... | |
 | William Scott - 1829 - 420 páginas
...greatest depressions of melancholy. On the contrary, cheerfulness, though 'I does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling...is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a floom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness eeps up a kind of day light in the mind, and... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1831 - 644 páginas
...to the greatest depressions of melancholy ; on the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash ot lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1831 - 1158 páginas
...depressions of melancholy ; on the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give such an extjuisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash ot lightning, that breaks through a gloom of cknids, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps... | |
 | Pierre François Merlet - 1837 - 314 páginas
...though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depth of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that...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... | |
 | 1840 - 546 páginas
...inworks: when he confrass the influence of mirth and cheerful* ness, it is in a simile. " Mirth," he says, "is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through...clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady aiid perpetual serenity." Again, how beautifully... | |
 | 1840 - 548 páginas
...of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." Again, how beautifully he observes upon the same quality, — " I would have my readers endeavour to... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
