Tiffs among the faggots were apparently the stuff of quiet merriment.
Merrily, merrily shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.
These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment.
Dublin. . . is not only the capital of a nation, but the capital of an idea. The idea of Irishness is not universally beloved. Some people mock it, some hate it, some fear it. On the whole, though, I think it fair to say, the world interprets it chiefly as a particular kind of happiness, a happiness sometimes boozy and violent, but essentially innocent: and this ineradicable spirit of merriment informs the Dublin genius to this day.
Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously.
Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.
Nature's tears are reason's merriment.
Christmas is more than a time of music, merriment and mirth; it is a season of meditation, mangers and miracles. Christmas is more than a time of carols, cards and candy; it is a season of dedication and decision.
By his provocations to good-natured merriment, a humorist of the first water contributes as much to the sum of happiness as the gravest philosopher.
It make one's mouth hurt to speak with such forced merriment.
Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed.
School is established, not in order that it should be convenient for the children to study, but that teachers should be able to teach in comfort. The children's conversations, motion, merriment are not convenient for the teacher, and so in the schools, which are built on the plan of prisons, are prohibited.
And mo the merier is a Prouerbe eke. [The more the merrier. ]
Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.
This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.
