The Gloomy Egoist: Moods and Themes of Melancholy from Gray to Keats |
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Page 204
... philosophical melancholy , such as that of Milton in " Il Penseroso , " of Gray in the great " Elegy , " even of Pea- cock in " The Philosophy of Melancholy , " is indubitably based on a reasoned contemplation of life , and definitely ...
... philosophical melancholy , such as that of Milton in " Il Penseroso , " of Gray in the great " Elegy , " even of Pea- cock in " The Philosophy of Melancholy , " is indubitably based on a reasoned contemplation of life , and definitely ...
Page 240
... philosophical , half personal . From the least subjective end of this gamut the changes may be rung through all the notes of more and more intense introspection to a subjectivity in which consciousness of nature is almost absorbed in ...
... philosophical , half personal . From the least subjective end of this gamut the changes may be rung through all the notes of more and more intense introspection to a subjectivity in which consciousness of nature is almost absorbed in ...
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... philosophical , and the senti- mental ( though the last alone has but doubtful creden- tials ) . This is , however , much too neat . Byron , for example , was both egotistical and sentimental , Shelley both philanthropic and philosophical ...
... philosophical , and the senti- mental ( though the last alone has but doubtful creden- tials ) . This is , however , much too neat . Byron , for example , was both egotistical and sentimental , Shelley both philanthropic and philosophical ...
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COMPOUNDED OF MANY SIMPLES | 1 |
INVOCATION TO MELANCHOLY | 39 |
SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI | 91 |
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