The Gloomy Egoist: Moods and Themes of Melancholy from Gray to Keats |
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Page 172
... never able entirely to cast them off ; he distrusted also and defied contemporary moral dicta , but never altogether ceased to believe in them . He knew the suffering of re- morse , therefore , but never the submission of repentance ...
... never able entirely to cast them off ; he distrusted also and defied contemporary moral dicta , but never altogether ceased to believe in them . He knew the suffering of re- morse , therefore , but never the submission of repentance ...
Page 237
... never have allowed so much spirit to the heroine , nor would he have allowed his hero to come so close in the end to humility and heart - break , or to pine away in silence until he lay beside his mistress in the tomb over which the ...
... never have allowed so much spirit to the heroine , nor would he have allowed his hero to come so close in the end to humility and heart - break , or to pine away in silence until he lay beside his mistress in the tomb over which the ...
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... never anything pessimistic in Coleridge's philosophy . Although in his radical period his faith was not orthodox and gave offense to his clergyman brother , yet the Unitarianism of the " Religious Musings " period is a distinctly ...
... never anything pessimistic in Coleridge's philosophy . Although in his radical period his faith was not orthodox and gave offense to his clergyman brother , yet the Unitarianism of the " Religious Musings " period is a distinctly ...
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COMPOUNDED OF MANY SIMPLES | 1 |
INVOCATION TO MELANCHOLY | 39 |
SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI | 91 |
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