The Gloomy Egoist: Moods and Themes of Melancholy from Gray to Keats |
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... writer meditates on mutability at nightfall in the " desert , solitary wild " about the ruins of Ocriculum.136 Robert ... write of Babylon , 139 or - and she is the greatest favorite of all - of Palmyra . The blank desolation of this ...
... writer meditates on mutability at nightfall in the " desert , solitary wild " about the ruins of Ocriculum.136 Robert ... write of Babylon , 139 or - and she is the greatest favorite of all - of Palmyra . The blank desolation of this ...
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... write with a lip- less grin on the innocent first page for a title , ' Here be- gins Death's Jest - Book . ' " 127 And twice during the play , 128 to point the jest , the painted figures of the dance of death on the wall of the ...
... write with a lip- less grin on the innocent first page for a title , ' Here be- gins Death's Jest - Book . ' " 127 And twice during the play , 128 to point the jest , the painted figures of the dance of death on the wall of the ...
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... write love elegies , not only about Negroes , whom he does not understand , but even about a turtle - dove who dies of a broken heart , 50 or a nightin- gale who has lost her mate . He is capable of ending a long and serious monody on a ...
... write love elegies , not only about Negroes , whom he does not understand , but even about a turtle - dove who dies of a broken heart , 50 or a nightin- gale who has lost her mate . He is capable of ending a long and serious monody on a ...
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COMPOUNDED OF MANY SIMPLES | 1 |
INVOCATION TO MELANCHOLY | 39 |
SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI | 91 |
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