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, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. Elegant extracts - Seite 28von Elegant extracts - 1816Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Charles Buck - 1824 - 628 Seiten
...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 daylight...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... | |
| 1824 - 348 Seiten
...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...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. which is every moment obnoxious to the greatest dangers. Writers of this complexion have observed,... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 Seiten
...of sorrow. Mirth is like a flush of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment ; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light...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... | |
| William Enfield - 1827 - 412 Seiten
...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 daylight...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... | |
| General reader - 1827 - 246 Seiten
...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...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... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 414 Seiten
...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.... | |
| William Scott - 1829 - 420 Seiten
...breaks through a floom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness eeps up a kind of day light in the mind, and fills it with a steady and' perpetual serenity. Spectator. 9. At the same time that 1 think discretion the most useful talent a man can be master ef,... | |
| Charles Buck - 1829 - 614 Seiten
...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 a steady and perpetual serenity." Mirth is sinful, 1. When men rejoice in that which is evil. 2. When unreasonable. 3. When tending to... | |
| Charles Buck - 1830 - 996 Seiten
...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...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... | |
| Charles Buck - 1831 - 644 Seiten
...of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash ot lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight...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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