...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy: on the contrary, cheerfulness, 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 breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters...

...contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not -ive such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from .Jling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of...lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, ami glitters for a moment : cheerfulness Seeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and [ills it with...

...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...

...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...

...images of his own youthful days. Thus, says Addison. is cheerfulness preferable to mirth. " The one, is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment. The other, keeps up a kind of day-light on the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity."...

...soften, and unite A thousand ways, is there no black or white?" — Pope. LESSON XIII. RULE XIII. " Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind,...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." — Addison. ' ' The pleasures of sense resemble a foaming torrent : which, after a disorderly course,...