The Anatomy of Melancholy,: In which the Kinds, Causes, Consequences, and Cures of this English Malady, ... are -- "traced from Within Its Inmost Centre to Its Outmost Skin."N. Hailes, ... John Bumpus, ... John Walker, ...; and Richard Griffin and Company Glasgow., 1824 - 339 pages |
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... sweet as Melancholy . But when I feel love's various frights , Deep sighs , sad tears , and sleepless nights , My jealous fits , my cruel fate ! I then repent , but ' tis too late : No torment is so sad as love , So bitter 10 INTRODUCTION .
... sweet as Melancholy . But when I feel love's various frights , Deep sighs , sad tears , and sleepless nights , My jealous fits , my cruel fate ! I then repent , but ' tis too late : No torment is so sad as love , So bitter 10 INTRODUCTION .
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... night ; and , as St. Ambrose says , will spend totius anni labores in a tippling feast ; convert day into night , rousing the night - owl with their noise , and rise when sober - minded men are going to rest . “ They drink and sing the ...
... night ; and , as St. Ambrose says , will spend totius anni labores in a tippling feast ; convert day into night , rousing the night - owl with their noise , and rise when sober - minded men are going to rest . “ They drink and sing the ...
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... nights , and trenchermen , industriously prove , until they wilfully pervert the good temperature of their bodies , stifle the wit which God has blessed them with , strangle nature , and degenerate into beasts . • For when the wine's ...
... nights , and trenchermen , industriously prove , until they wilfully pervert the good temperature of their bodies , stifle the wit which God has blessed them with , strangle nature , and degenerate into beasts . • For when the wine's ...
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... night to avoid its pernicious effects ; and a similar prac- tice prevails for the like reason in many parts of the Mogul empire ; but particularly in the isle of Ormus , near the gulph of Persia , where the inhabitants of all ...
... night to avoid its pernicious effects ; and a similar prac- tice prevails for the like reason in many parts of the Mogul empire ; but particularly in the isle of Ormus , near the gulph of Persia , where the inhabitants of all ...
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... nights damp , the mind becomes tetric , sad , peevish , angry , dull , and melancholy but while the western gales blow calmly over our heads , and the sun shines mildly from the skies , all nature looks alert and cheerful . " Thus when ...
... nights damp , the mind becomes tetric , sad , peevish , angry , dull , and melancholy but while the western gales blow calmly over our heads , and the sun shines mildly from the skies , all nature looks alert and cheerful . " Thus when ...
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Page 239 - These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume...
Page 238 - Twere now to be most happy, for I fear My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Page 215 - So hand in hand they pass'd, the loveliest pair, That ever since in love's embraces met; Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.
Page 210 - Yet empty of all good wherein consists Woman's domestic honour and chief praise ; Bred only and completed to the taste Of lustful appetence, to sing, to dance, To dress, and troll the tongue, and roll the eye.
Page 9 - O mine hard fate 1 now repent, but 'tis too late. No torment is so bad as love, So bitter to my soul can prove. All my griefs to this are jolly, Naught so harsh as melancholy.
Page 122 - A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword...
Page 220 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her, with timbrels, and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously : the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Page 7 - When I go musing all alone Thinking of divers things fore-known. When I build castles in the air, Void of sorrow and void of fear, Pleasing myself with phantasms sweet, Methinks the time runs very fleet. All my joys to this are folly, Naught so sweet as melancholy.
Page 226 - So cheer'd he his fair spouse, and she was cheer'd ; But silently a gentle tear let fall From either eye, and wip'd them with her hair; Two other precious drops that ready stood, Each in their crystal sluice, he ere they fell Kiss'd, as the gracious signs of sweet remorse And pious awe, that fear'd to have offended.
Page 57 - The gates of hell are open night and day ; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way : But, to return, and view the cheerful skies — In this the task and mighty labour lies.