The cup is half empty. The cup is half full. The pessimistic and optimistic tone gives it a different connotation.
Dryden may have said the jest went around and he was laughed at in his turn who began the frolic about Zimri in his <em>Absalom, </em>however, I am not entirely certain. If that is one of the options, I would pick that one.
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The first sentence is correct.