 | James Beattie - Ethics - 1790 - 460 pages
...friend is always welcome, and one of the greateft comforts of life. Mirth, fays Addifon, is like a flam of lightning that breaks through . a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment : chearfulnefs keeps up a kind of funmine in the foul, and fills it with a fteady and perpetual ferenity.... | |
 | 1797 - 332 pages
...an exquiflte gladnefs, " prevents us from falling into any depths of forrow. " MIRTH is like a flafh of lightning, that breaks through " a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment ; CHEER" FULNESS keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and " fills it with a fteady and perpetual... | |
 | English literature - 1797 - 680 pages
...flaih of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment ; chearfulnefs keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a Heady and perpetual ferenity. Men of auftere principles look upon mirth as too wanton and difTolute... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1801 - 338 pages
...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 keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a fteady and perpetual ferenity.... | |
 | Noah Webster - Readers - 1802 - 278 pages
...pitvents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is' like a ftar.ii of lightning that bresks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a ^moment ; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in tie mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual *ereJiity. • t 2 Men of austere principles look... | |
 | 1804 - 412 pages
...cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind 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. Cheerfulness is, in the first place, the best promoter of health. Repinings, and secret murmurs... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...Cheerfulness , though it does not give the mind 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. Men of austere principles look upon Mirth as too wanton and dissolute for a state of probation,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...chearfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of...through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment ; chearfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.... | |
 | Noah Webster - Elocution - 1804 - 254 pages
...though it docs not give; the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from fa!':i)g into any fepths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds, ?.B«! glitters for a moment: Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 376 pages
...transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. — Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks througha gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness...the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." He considers cheerfulness in three points of view, as it regards ourselves, or those we... | |
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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... 
