The Gloomy Egoist: Moods and Themes of Melancholy from Gray to Keats |
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... things which have been from time im- memorial the objects of melancholy contemplation , a basis of discussion may be found , though our categories remain mercifully flexible and our definitions emerge but tenta- tively as we proceed ...
... things which have been from time im- memorial the objects of melancholy contemplation , a basis of discussion may be found , though our categories remain mercifully flexible and our definitions emerge but tenta- tively as we proceed ...
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... things which melancholy poets have in common one with another will be the things characteristic of the age as a whole . In many ways the middle decades of the eighteenth century were a period of transition , even more truly than are ...
... things which melancholy poets have in common one with another will be the things characteristic of the age as a whole . In many ways the middle decades of the eighteenth century were a period of transition , even more truly than are ...
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... things are involved one in another , all are parts of a multifarious whole . The only thing clear is that nothing is clear : that all life is touched with the primeval mystery . Mystery envelopes also the evil and suffering which are ...
... things are involved one in another , all are parts of a multifarious whole . The only thing clear is that nothing is clear : that all life is touched with the primeval mystery . Mystery envelopes also the evil and suffering which are ...
Contents
COMPOUNDED OF MANY SIMPLES | 1 |
INVOCATION TO MELANCHOLY | 39 |
SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI | 91 |
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