The Gloomy Egoist: Moods and Themes of Melancholy from Gray to Keats |
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... spirits : Anna Seward , Charlotte Smith , Mary Tighe . These talented women , especially Charlotte Smith , fixed upon the sonnet in particular a tearful elegiac spirit in the presence of nature which it only with difficulty managed to ...
... spirits : Anna Seward , Charlotte Smith , Mary Tighe . These talented women , especially Charlotte Smith , fixed upon the sonnet in particular a tearful elegiac spirit in the presence of nature which it only with difficulty managed to ...
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... spirit hurt by the wrongs and miseries of life can lose itself in some active campaign of reform , its energy may be turned outward and its essential happi- ness may be preserved . This was the reaction of the great reforming spirits of ...
... spirit hurt by the wrongs and miseries of life can lose itself in some active campaign of reform , its energy may be turned outward and its essential happi- ness may be preserved . This was the reaction of the great reforming spirits of ...
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... spirit beyond all others came that weary drooping of the questing spirit which the Germans- and we after them - have called Weltschmerz . Long ago Aristotle wrote that men of genius are mel- ancholy . Cicero repeated the dictum ...
... spirit beyond all others came that weary drooping of the questing spirit which the Germans- and we after them - have called Weltschmerz . Long ago Aristotle wrote that men of genius are mel- ancholy . Cicero repeated the dictum ...
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COMPOUNDED OF MANY SIMPLES | 1 |
INVOCATION TO MELANCHOLY | 39 |
SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI | 91 |
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