 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - عدد الصفحات: 418
...is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind. Here the words in Italic take no visible pause after them, without violence to grammatical relation.... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1829 - عدد الصفحات: 614
...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 of...lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glittei-s foc a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-j light in the mind, and fills it with... | |
 | William Scott - 1829 - عدد الصفحات: 420
...cheerfulness, though 'I does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a floom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness eeps up a kind of day light in the mind, and... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1830 - عدد الصفحات: 996
...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 of...the mind, 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... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1831 - عدد الصفحات: 644
...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,...the mind, 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... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1831 - عدد الصفحات: 1158
...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 up a...the mind, 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... | |
 | Pierre François Merlet - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 314
...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...the mind, 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,... | |
 | 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 546
...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... | |
 | 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 548
...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... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 1574
...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... | |
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... 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... 
