The Gloomy Egoist: Moods and Themes of Melancholy from Gray to Keats |
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... religious melancholy , we are forgetting , not only the vast popularity of the literature we have been discuss- ing , but the whole intense and turbulent world of Metho- dism , and of the parallel Evangelical movement within the Church ...
... religious melancholy , we are forgetting , not only the vast popularity of the literature we have been discuss- ing , but the whole intense and turbulent world of Metho- dism , and of the parallel Evangelical movement within the Church ...
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... Religious and philosophical meditation are of course too closely allied to be always separable . James Hurdis has them walking together in the melancholy woodland shades : Such is the haunt Religion loves , a meek and humble maid ...
... Religious and philosophical meditation are of course too closely allied to be always separable . James Hurdis has them walking together in the melancholy woodland shades : Such is the haunt Religion loves , a meek and humble maid ...
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... religious , and seems to owe little except perhaps the general conception to Young . But the abuses - of - night poems take us too far from our sub- ject of the melancholy treatment of nature . The religious motif most frequent in the ...
... religious , and seems to owe little except perhaps the general conception to Young . But the abuses - of - night poems take us too far from our sub- ject of the melancholy treatment of nature . The religious motif most frequent in the ...
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COMPOUNDED OF MANY SIMPLES | 1 |
INVOCATION TO MELANCHOLY | 39 |
SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI | 91 |
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