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
| Nathan Drake - 1805 - عدد الصفحات: 370
...transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. — Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks througha gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." He considers cheerfulness in three points of view, as it regards ourselves, or those we converse with,... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1805 - عدد الصفحات: 378
...just and beautiful. " Mirth," says he, "is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. — Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters fora moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a steady and... | |
| William Enfield - 1805 - عدد الصفحات: 456
...fuch :m exquilite gladnefs, prevents U5 from falling into any depths of forrow. Mirth is like a fiafh of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulnefs keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a fteady and perpetual ferenity.... | |
| Charles Buck - 1807 - عدد الصفحات: 508
...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 of...the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual seremty." ' . MISANTHROPIST, w**9fovns, a hater of mankind ; one that abandons society from a principle... | |
| 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... | |
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