The Gloomy Egoist: Moods and Themes of Melancholy from Gray to Keats |
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... early ode by Broome ) to be written as a funeral elegy . The details of the description , however , are not unique . Compare In her dusk - brown mantle clad See her walk sedate and sad , With folded arms , and tearful eyes , And breast ...
... early ode by Broome ) to be written as a funeral elegy . The details of the description , however , are not unique . Compare In her dusk - brown mantle clad See her walk sedate and sad , With folded arms , and tearful eyes , And breast ...
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... early death - which last was unknown in early days , when everyone lived a pastoral existence for a thousand years or so . Our woes are due to Envy , Ambition with war in its train , and Luxury , which kills its ten thousands to the ...
... early death - which last was unknown in early days , when everyone lived a pastoral existence for a thousand years or so . Our woes are due to Envy , Ambition with war in its train , and Luxury , which kills its ten thousands to the ...
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... early death - too truly , as the event proved , although disappointed love may not have been responsible for it . There are no pas- toral trappings in these outpourings , which doubtless lack more in poetic inspiration than in sincerity ...
... early death - too truly , as the event proved , although disappointed love may not have been responsible for it . There are no pas- toral trappings in these outpourings , which doubtless lack more in poetic inspiration than in sincerity ...
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COMPOUNDED OF MANY SIMPLES | 1 |
INVOCATION TO MELANCHOLY | 39 |
SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI | 91 |
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