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She is aware that the "Ode to Melancholy" in _The Nice Valour_ begins in the same way as Milton's "Pensieroso," but she does not seem to know that the latter is also closely imitated from Burton's poem in his _Anatomy of Melancholy_.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various
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Melancholy, "(viz. that relating to _Religious Melancholy_), and at the same time to intimate my hope that any of your readers who may have it in their power to render me any assistance, will kindly aid me in the work.
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Melancholy is still readily available through us, and it's actually on sale for the holiday.
Media Mentions 2009
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Melancholy is dominant from August 6 to November 6 [at which point] phlegm flourishes.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Melancholy is still readily available through us, and it's actually on sale for the holiday.
A Different Stripe: 2007
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Melancholy is still readily available through us, and it's actually on sale for the holiday.
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Melancholy is the unspoken sign both of the Law's incapacity to bring all of the depths into light and sense, and of its inability to give up that Apollonian desire for mastery.
Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy 2000
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How diversely the word Melancholy | Definition of Melancholy: name, is taken. | difference.
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Lamartine and people of his kidney come in -- 'Melancholy gentlemen' pardon, my dear Elodie, if I quote it in English -- 'Melancholy gentlemen to whom life was only a dismal swamp, upon whose margin they walked with cambric handkerchiefs in their hands, sobbing and sighing and making signals to
The Mountebank William John Locke 1896
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The riders are sisters, played by Charlotte Gainsbourg and Ms. Dunst, and the world they inhabit may soon end as a smaller planet called Melancholy threatens to crash into planet Earth.
At Film Fest, Drugs, Dunst and Dazzle Joe Morgenstern 2011
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