And that Mirth at the expence of Virtue, is an Over-purchase,' Nimium enim risus pretium est si probitatis impendio constat.
But Raillery apart, certainly Mirth and Laughing, without respect to the Cause, are not such supreme Satisfactions!
Of the mirth that is the natural outcome of a cheerful nature, the Dean knew nothing.
In the early years of the century the Italian opera, which had been brought into England in the reign of William and Mary, excited the mirth and opposition of the wits.
His humour is always allied to sadness; hismirth often sounds like a cry of misery.
He gives them mirth instead of argument, and thinks it more likely to prevail with the 'Fair Sex.
Disdainful of my mirth he merely muttered his basso-profundo thankfulness that we had not found her anywhere about there.
Why do you think so," asked the other, who could with difficulty restrain hismirth at the fellow's cool self-sufficiency and assurance.
They indulge in immoderate fits of laughter, look each other knowingly in the face, wink, and run the forefinger up the nose, after which their mirth bursts out afresh, and they laugh until the tears come down their cheeks.
Norton, on the other hand, was rather depressed, and could not be prevailed upon to partake of the gay and exuberant spirit of mirth and buoyancy which animated Dunroe.
Instead she saw both mirth and admiration shining in the baby-blue eyes.
Bandy O'Neil's roar of mirth was a sound to hearken to joyously from afar.
Here the whole five of us collected in a group, and an explanation followed which instantly banished all mirth from Pierre, and all poetry from la Jardiniere.
So did Mr. Hitchin, throwing himself back and swaying from side to side as his mirth shook him.
All orders of the people then devoted themselves to mirth and feasting; friends sent presents to one another; and masters treated their slaves upon a footing of equality.
But if we find him below par, and deficient both in body and mind, we must beware of giving occasion for him and ourselves to be laughed at by the world, which is ready enough to make such things the subject of mirth and derision.
Nor can I conceive any meaning attached to the words “separate attention,” that is not fully answered by one part of an exhibition exciting seriousness or pity, and the other raising mirth and loud laughter.
It cannot be; it is impossible; Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.
He was a queer-looking boy at the best, and then he always went in for the most extraordinary gestures, so it was not wonderful that people found food for mirth in watching him.
Besides, if her mind was not occupied by any particular sorrow, or study, she caught reflected pleasure, and was glad to see others happy, though their mirth did not interest her.
Their insensibility and want of fear, she could not name courage; their thoughtless mirth was quite of an animal kind, and their feelings as impetuous and uncertain as the element they plowed.
And thus waxing in mirth every day, that great festival continued for a long time, and all friends, relations and people generally were delighted by it, and had their wishes marvellously fulfilled.
There the merchant disembarked his wares, gladdening the hearts of his servants, and the minister went in high spirits with him to his house, which was full of mirth at his arrival.
Go into that hall of revelry, where ungodlymirth staggers and blasphemes.
I remember, I remember How my childhood fleeted by,-- The mirthof its December And the warmth of its July.
There 's not a string attuned to mirth But has its chord in melancholy.
As Tammie glow'red, amazed and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious.
Where lives the man that has not tried How mirthcan into folly glide, And folly into sin!
With an auspicious and a dropping eye,[127-3] With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage, In equal scale weighing delight and dole.
Far from all resort of mirth Save the cricket on the hearth.
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after.
The common growth of Mother Earth Suffices me,--her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears.
Then Helen laughed, feebly, it is true, but with a genuine mirth that chased away momentarily the evergrowing memory of Millicent's injustice.
It was wonderfully funny to far-away readers, and it made uproarious mirth in the aristocratic homes of the South.
His achievement in succoring, hiding, and finally rescuing Eliab Hill was a source of never-ending wonder, applause, and mirth in the kitchen.
But the music does more than reflect the life of mirth and folly which was led in the gay and voluptuous city.
She looked at him with bright eyes in which anger and reluctantmirth were strangely blended.
The dark eyes of little Golden's captor sparkled with mirth at her indignant question.
How the girl threw herself into it, bringing out the wailing love-song of the Andante, the dainty tripping mirth of the Scherzo, in a way which set every nerve in Langham vibrating!
Indeed, among all our public speakers I know but few who can combine so felicitously as he does the mirth and malice of Puck with the style of the minor prophets.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mirth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
