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...nforeseen Retreat Chapter 10: The Dutch Solar System Chapter 11: Saskia’s Awakening Chapter 12: Julie the Sweep Chapter 13: The Unbearable Melancholia of Sprouts Chapter 14: Christmas in Paris Chapter 15: Another Letter from the Coalfields Chapter 16: The Scholar Who Wouldn’t Eat Chapter 17: The Eyes of Alfred Célerie Chapter 18: Pablo and the Fish ...

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...1621. On its surface, the book is a medical textbook in which Burton applies his large and varied learning in the scholastic manner to the subject of melancholia (which includes what is now termed clinical depression). Though presented as a medical text, The Anatomy of Melancholy is as much a sui generis work of literature as it is a scientific or philosophical text, and B...

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...struggles with mortality, and the uncertainty of his fate and fame in this world and the next, to produce an extended funerary meditation tinged with melancholia. The changes wrought by time and eternity, the fleetingness of mortal fame, and our feeble attempts to cope with the certainty of death are Browne's subjects. Yet, at the same time, Browne can be tersely witty, mo...

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...1621. On its surface, the book is a medical textbook in which Burton applies his large and varied learning in the scholastic manner to the subject of melancholia (which includes what is now termed clinical depression). Though presented as a medical text, The Anatomy of Melancholy is as much a sui generis work of literature as it is a scientific or philosophical text, and B...

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...1621. On its surface, the book is a medical textbook in which Burton applies his large and varied learning in the scholastic manner to the subject of melancholia (which includes what is now termed clinical depression). Though presented as a medical text, The Anatomy of Melancholy is as much a sui generis work of literature as it is a scientific or philosophical text, and B...

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...ad not been in bed out of sheer laziness, but that I was still in a state of melancholia that only time would eradicate. “Well, Ma’am Claire,” Maggie... ... is not what it has been in the past. Again, I believe this is part of her melancholia. I am confident that she still loves me. Still, these month... ...the carriage house, were a tonic to Claire and me both. She shed the air of melancholia that had hung about her since the opera gala. Her demeanor ... ...upper later. As for me, I had never fully recovered from one aspect of the melancholia that struck me in London: I still ate very little. Veroniqu...

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...have been able to visit the princess, Lady French. Perhaps you can talk some sense into her. This melancholia of hers must stop. She is to be marrie...

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...sit by the stove or go out into the backyard, if it was summer or autumn. Melancholia has always dogged me. It seems to sit inside of me and peer out... ... frequently, staying away two or three weeks at a time. Marital bliss and melancholia are known to be mates. Executive Mansion 8/9/63 For years ... ... talk of Danville, circuit friends, horses; he is adept at driving off my melancholia. “The war is going to end soon,” he prophesizes. “It has to en...

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...Italians. She suggested a symbolic picture, something akin even to Durer’s Melancholia, and was so perfect an image of a type which I, in my ignorance...

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...ion, and that these extremer phases of 96 God The Invisible King mania or melancholia slip the leash of mental consistency altogether and take abnorm...

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...able and his pace quickened. There is nothing so good in all the world for melancholia as walking, and the exercise of the imagination in planning 12...

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...ter, and redoubled in attention to his lessons. But these were interrupted by spells of melancholia and brood- ing silence, when the boy was little be...

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...praying piously for forgiveness. After a time his fierce- ness gave way to melancholia. He had been married in this very overcoat, in his first and on... ...was a man of fair education, and he suffered, for weeks at a stretch, from melancholia and insomnia. Afraid to disturb his fam- ily, he would slip qui...

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...lusion. Or perhaps mine was a physical state, some sort of disease akin to melancholia which is a form of insanity? The only moments of relief I could...

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...ce of nature in his eyes. A new heaven seems to shine upon a new earth. In melancholiacs there is usually a simi- lar change, only it is in the revers... ...ons of my own state of mind (I have always thought that this experience of melancholia of mine had a religious bearing.” On asking this correspondent ... ... wild beasts clutch their living prey, the deadly horror which an agitated melancholiac feels is the literally right reac- tion on the situation.[85] ... ... Above, p. 243 ff. Compare the withdrawal of expression from the world, in Melancholiacs, p. 148. 460 The V arieties of Religious Experience makes no...