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" 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 - Página 1
editado por - 1823
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Moral essays in praise of virtue

Moral essays - 1821 - 188 páginas
...on the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the Wind much exquisite gladness, prevents it from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like...cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, &nd fills it with a steady and perpetual se* fenity. » Men of austere principles look upon mirth sis...
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An Introduction to the Universal Explanatory Reader: Designed for Junior ...

William Pinnock - 1822 - 252 páginas
...amiable simplicity, and render deformity itself agreeable. Cheerfulness is the health of the soul ; it is a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. • 8. Never be ashamed of being convinced, for he that is confuted is wiser than he was, and therefore...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, a Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse for the ...

William Scott - 1823 - 396 páginas
...depressions of melancholy. On the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into...flash of lightning , that breaks through a gloom of c loads and glitters for a moment ; cheerfulness keeps a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it...
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Elegant Extracts: Or Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose

Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 794 páginas
...though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depth and J. Rivington я 1 state of probation, and as filled with a certain triumph and insolence of heart that is inconsistent...
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The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant ...

1824 - 348 páginas
...depressions of melancholy ; on the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. which is every moment obnoxious to the greatest dangers. Writers of this complexion have observed,...
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A theological dictionary, containing definitions of all religious terms ...

Charles Buck - 1824 - 628 páginas
...contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from fajhnjinto any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning,...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." Mirth is sinful, 1. When men rejoice in that which is evil. 2. When unreasonable. 3. When tending to...
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Sequel to the English Reader: Or, Elegant Selections in Prose and Poetry ...

Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 páginas
...a gladness so exquisite, prevents it from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flush of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds,...austere principles look upon mirth, as too wanton dissolute for a state of probation, and as filled with a certain triumph and insolence of heart, that...
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - 1825 - 382 páginas
...the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents »s from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth in like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom...clouds and glitters for a moment ; cheerfulness keeps a kind of <;.i , 1 _• 1 .1. in the wind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. — Spectator....
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The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English ...

William Enfield - 1827 - 412 páginas
...depressions of melancholy ; on the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. dangers. Writers of this complexion have observed, that the sacred Person, who was the great pattern...
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Laconics: Or Instructive Miscellanies, Selected from the Best Authors ...

General reader - 1827 - 246 páginas
...On the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, yet it prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow....and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. — Spectator. Happiest of all men to me seems the private man, nor can the opinion of ill-judging...
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