 | George Earle Merkley - 1902 - 336 pages
...through a ness to mirth.) gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment ; cheer- Illustration, fulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. — Addison : The Spectator, No. 381. This paragraph has clearness, because it keeps thought so that... | |
 | Oscar Israel Woodley, Myra Soper Woodley, George Rice Carpenter - 1902 - 186 pages
...a careless word will produce. 17. To be useful in some degree is within the means of every one. 18. Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual peace. 19. The eye that sees all things cannot see itself. 20. It often requires deep digging to obtain... | |
 | 1903 - 668 pages
...cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depth of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning that...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." A man's temperament Is made for him, but his habits are his own, and good 'humor and cheerfulness are... | |
 | 1812 - 552 pages
...it does not afford the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any vast depth of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that...Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and tills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. If we consider Cheerfulness in three points of view.... | |
 | Frederick Henry Sykes - 1905 - 362 pages
...greatest depressions of melancholy. On the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. —Joseph Addison. From " The Spectator." II. Principles — Exposition. — The foregoing paragraph... | |
 | Charles Maurice Stebbins - 1906 - 472 pages
...greatest depressions of melancholy. On the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. — The Spectator. Questions. 2. Does the second sentence explain the subject, or give a reason for... | |
 | Charles Maurice Stebbins - 1906 - 478 pages
...greatest depressions of melancholy. On the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling...fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.— The Spectator. Questions. 2. Does the second sentence explain the subject, or give a reason for the... | |
 | Harriet Louise Keeler, Mary Elizabeth Adams - 1906 - 296 pages
...greatest depressions of melancholy ; on the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. — ADDISON : "Cheerfulness and Mirth," Spectator, No, 381. At another time, it is better to begin... | |
 | Dorothy Canfield Fisher, George Rice Carpenter - 1906 - 306 pages
...greatest depressions of melancholy. On the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity — JOSEPH ADDISON : The Spectator. Exercise 132. — Using this device of comparison, and adding to... | |
 | Dorothy Canfield Fisher, George Rice Carpenter - 1906 - 306 pages
...contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us froin falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. — JOSEPH ADDISON : The Spectator. Exercise 132. — Using this device of comparison, and adding to... | |
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Mirth 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... 
