 I HAVE always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of the mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth, who are subject...  The daughter at school - Page 88by John Todd - 1853Full view - About this book
 | 1739 - 312 pages
...Melancholy : On the contrary, Chearfulnefs.tho' it does not give the Mind fuch an exquifite Gladnefs, prevents us from falling into any Depths of Sorrow. Mirth is like a Flafh of Lightning, that breaks thro' a Gloom of Clouds, and glitters for a Moment ; Chearfulnefs keeps... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1801 - 338 pages
...melancholy : on the contrary, cheerfulnefs, though it does not give the mind fuch an exquifite gladntfs, prevents us from falling into any .depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a iiafh of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment : cheerfulnefs... | |
 | Noah Webster - Readers - 1802 - 278 pages
...the mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those ase often raised in16 the greatest transports of mirth, who are subject...does not giVe the mind such an exquisite gladness, pitvents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is' like a ftar.ii of lightning that bresks... | |
 | 1804 - 412 pages
...the mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth, who are subject...is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind,... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...the mind. Mirth is short and transient, Cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of Mirth , who are subject...is like a flash of lightning , that breaks through a gloom of clouds , and glitters for a moment ; Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...mind. Mirth is short and transient ; cheat-fulness, fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth, who are subject...greatest depressions of melancholy : on the contrary, chearfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling... | |
 | Noah Webster - Elocution - 1804 - 254 pages
...fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth, -who are sebject to the greatest depressions of melancholy : on the contrary, cheerfulness, though it docs not give; the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from fa!':i)g into any fepths of sorrow.... | |
 | Charles Buck - Theology - 1807 - 508 pages
...mind. Mirth is short and transient ; cheerfulness fixed and permanent. " Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth who are subject to...the 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 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 a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind,... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...the mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth, who are subject...is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment ; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind,... | |
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