The Gloomy Egoist: Moods and Themes of Melancholy from Gray to Keats |
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... sometimes with Miltonic elements , sometimes with the nascent sentimentalism , sometimes with Thomsonian description , sometimes with the old conception of melancholy as a disease , there is an- other type of melancholy , designedly ...
... sometimes with Miltonic elements , sometimes with the nascent sentimentalism , sometimes with Thomsonian description , sometimes with the old conception of melancholy as a disease , there is an- other type of melancholy , designedly ...
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... Sometimes these are merely formal panegyric of a departed patron or public character . Sometimes they exist only to point a moral . But sometimes they are honest expressions of the mood of black melancholy natural to one truly bereaved ...
... Sometimes these are merely formal panegyric of a departed patron or public character . Sometimes they exist only to point a moral . But sometimes they are honest expressions of the mood of black melancholy natural to one truly bereaved ...
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... sometimes the lovers meet only in death ; sometimes they part to meet no more . A reasonably early example of the type in which the tragedy is temporary is Anna Seward's " Louisa " ( 1782 ) , 143 already referred to . This poem has to ...
... sometimes the lovers meet only in death ; sometimes they part to meet no more . A reasonably early example of the type in which the tragedy is temporary is Anna Seward's " Louisa " ( 1782 ) , 143 already referred to . This poem has to ...
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COMPOUNDED OF MANY SIMPLES | 1 |
INVOCATION TO MELANCHOLY | 39 |
SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI | 91 |
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