always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. 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 raised into the greatest transports of mirth who are subject to... The British Essayists: The Spectator - Strana viipodľa Alexander Chalmers - 1802Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
| Alexander Reid - 1843 - Počet stránok 122
...if exercise dissipates a growing distemper, temperance starves it. 3. Cheerfulneis and mirth. 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... | |
| John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - Počet stránok 464
...was never seen'/ to lau v gh. latter/ I consider as an act, the former/ as a /•ift'tV-of-themind. Mir'th is sho'rt and tran'sient; cheerfulness fi'xed...on the contrary, che'erfulness (though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gla'dness) prevents us from falling into any de n pths-of-so'irow.... | |
| John Charles Tarver - 1845 - Počet stránok 248
...naturally flows out into friendship and benevolence towards the person who has so kindly an effect upon it. Those are often raised into the greatest transports...subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy. If I am to die to-morrow, that is what I am to do tomorrow ; nor will it be then, because I am willing... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders - 1845 - Počet stránok 312
...heerfulness.—Addison. 1. I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter, I consider an acl—the former, a habit of the mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised to the greatest transports of mirth, who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy; on... | |
| Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - Počet stránok 524
...falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent astonishment; and Pope with perpetual delight. 9. 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... | |
| Charles Buck - 1851 - Počet stránok 888
...merriment. It ia distinguished from cheerfulness thus: Mirtk is considered as an act ; clteerfulne$s an habit of the mind. Mirth is short and transient; cheerfulness fixed and permanent. "Those are oft en raised into the greatest transports of mirth who are subject to the greatest depressions of... | |
| 1851 - Počet stránok 278
...our farewell look of Rtfiflh, and steered on for Tobermory. Highland Note-Book. ON CHEERFULNESS. 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... | |
| William Draper Swan - 1851 - Počet stránok 440
...falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent astonishment; and Pope witli perpetual delight. 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... | |
| William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - Počet stránok 422
...of the extremes, and is sometimes attended with both. CHAPTER II. ON CHEERFULNESS. SPECTATOR. 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... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - Počet stránok 332
...YOUNG (Spence's Anecdotes). " I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider aa an act, the former as an habit of the mind. Mirth...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 exquisite... | |
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