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 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 Seiten
...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 daylight...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." — ADDISON (Spectator, p. 381). LECTURE THE THIRD. STEELE. WHAT do \ve look for in studying the history... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 Seiten
...permanent. 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." He considers cheerfulness in three points of view — as it regards ourselves, or those we converse... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 360 Seiten
...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 daylight...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." — ADDISON (Spectator, p. 381.) LECTURE THE THIRD. STEELE. WHAT do we look for in studying the history... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 272 Seiten
...depth 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. 8. Sincerity is, to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what... | |
 | John Todd - 1853 - 302 Seiten
...lightning, that breaks through the gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment ; cheerfulness keeps up a land of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." One good method of reformation in wrong habits, and in little things, when you are away at school,... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 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 in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity. — Addison. MIRTH AND WIT. — Mirth should be the... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - 306 Seiten
...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 daylight...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." — ADDISON (Spectator, p. 381). LECTURE THE THIRD. STEELE. WHAT do we look for in studying the history... | |
 | William Russell - 1854 - 398 Seiten
...permanent. 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. 2. The very actions which they have only read I have partly sten, and partly myself achieved. What... | |
 | 1854 - 316 Seiten
...of lightning that breaks through the gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment ; cheerfulness makes up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. — Addison. THE AIR PASSAGES. The following sixteen pages are a verbatim monograph of the edition... | |
 | 1855 - 488 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. Enough has heaven indulg'd of joy below, To tempt our tarriance in this lov'd retreat: Enough has heaven... | |
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