 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 726 páginas
...off by an exquisite expression.— -H. No. 381.] SPECTATOR. 275 is short and transient, chearfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the...greatest depressions of melancholy : on the contrary, chearfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - 306 páginas
...The latter I consider as an act, the former as an habit of the mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often...transports of mirth who are subject to the greatest depression of melancholy : on the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 710 páginas
...off by an exquisite expression.— -H. So. 381.] SPECTATOR. 275 ia short and transient, chearfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth, who are subjeet to the greatest depressions of melancholy : on the contrary, chearfulness, though it does not... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 704 páginas
...paper is supported and set off by an exquisite expression.— -H. is short and transient, chearfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the...greatest depressions of melancholy : on the contrary, chearfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 1090 páginas
...paper is supported and set off by an exquisite expreasion. — H. is short and transient, chearfuluess fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the...greatest. depressions of melancholy : on the contrary, chearfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 542 páginas
...The latter I consider as an act, the former as an habit of the mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often...subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy ; ou the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents... | |
 | 1857 - 240 páginas
...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...the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 226 páginas
...transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. 2 Those are often raised into the greatest transports17 of mirth who are subject to the greatest depressions...the con'trary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an ex'quisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any d§pths of sorrow. 3. Mir^h... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 226 páginas
...the former as a habit of the mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. mirth who are subject to the greatest depressions...the con'trary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an ex'quisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. 3. Mirth... | |
 | John Richardson Major - 1858 - 216 páginas
...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...the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like... | |
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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... 
