 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...  The daughter at school - Side 88af John Todd - 1853Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1739 - 312 sider
...Melancholy : On the contrary, Chearfulnefs.tho' it does not give the Mind fuch an exquifite Gladnefs, prevents us from falling into any Depths of Sorrow. Mirth is like a Flafh of Lightning, that breaks thro' a Gloom of Clouds, and glitters for a Moment ; Chearfulnefs keeps... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1801 - 338 sider
...melancholy : on the contrary, cheerfulnefs, though it does not give the mind fuch an exquifite gladntfs, prevents us from falling into any .depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a iiafh of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment : cheerfulnefs... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1802 - 278 sider
...the mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those ase often raised in16 the greatest transports of mirth, who are subject...does not giVe the mind such an exquisite gladness, pitvents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is' like a ftar.ii of lightning that bresks... | |
 | 1804 - 412 sider
...the mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth, who are subject...is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind,... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 sider
...the mind. Mirth is short and transient, Cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of Mirth , who are subject...is like a flash of lightning , that breaks through a gloom of clouds , and glitters for a moment ; Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 sider
...mind. Mirth is short and transient ; cheat-fulness, fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth, who are subject...greatest depressions of melancholy : on the contrary, chearfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1804 - 254 sider
...fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth, -who are sebject to the greatest depressions of melancholy : on the contrary, cheerfulness, though it docs not give; the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from fa!':i)g into any fepths of sorrow.... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1807 - 508 sider
...mind. Mirth is short and transient ; cheerfulness fixed and permanent. " Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth who are subject to...the 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 346 sider
...cheerfulness, though it does not Vf*t. XII. B giro the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents »is from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind,... | |
 | William Enfield - 1808 - 434 sider
...the mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth, who are subject...is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment ; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind,... | |
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