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 British Essayists;: Spectator - الصفحة 2بواسطة Alexander Chalmers - 1808عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| James Beattie - 1807 - عدد الصفحات: 444
...a cheerful friend is always welcome, and one of the greatest comforts of life. Mirth, says Addison, is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a...glitters for a moment : cheerfulness keeps up a kind of sunshine in the soul, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. A cheerful man is master of... | |
| William Enfield - 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 434
...subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy : on the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents...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... | |
| Noah Webster - 1809 - عدد الصفحات: 202
...subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy ; qn the contrary, cheerfulness, though &. does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents...through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment j cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.... | |
| Charles Buck - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 498
...into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a Hash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of c'hjnds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight iu the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual se» renity." MISANTHROPIST, &••«>»>•T«5,... | |
| William Scott - 1814 - عدد الصفحات: 424
...subject to the greatest depressions of melancholly. On the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents...of clouds, and glitters for a moment ; cheerfulness . jlie^ps' up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady •' ' ami perpetual serenity.... | |
| Noah Webster - 1814 - عدد الصفحات: 240
...subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy; on the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents...from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like vflash of lightning that breaks thro' a gloom of clouds, and glitters »' for a moment ; cheerfulness... | |
| Abner Alden - 1814 - عدد الصفحات: 222
...depressions of melancholy : on the contrary, cheeifulness, though it does not give the mind such an extensive gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths...of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that bteaks through a gloom of cloucs, and glitters for a moment ; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light... | |
| Charles Buck - 1815 - عدد الصفحات: 546
...to the greatest depressions of melancholy ; on the contrary, cheerfulness, though it docs not give such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a Hash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters fur a moment ; cheerfulness... | |
| John Wilson (D.D.) - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 308
...greatest depressions of melaneholy : on the eontrary, eheerfulness though it does not give the mind sueh an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into...flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of elouds, and glitters for a moment ; eheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, .-- and... | |
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