It is a remarkable feature, though not perhaps a singular one, in the character of this great comic writer, that he was one of the most serious of men, and even of a melancholic temperament.
He was naturally of a melancholic temperament, apt to dwell on objects which occasion pain, rather than on those which exhilarate.
Aristotle had remarked that men of genius are of melancholic temperament, and after him Jürgen-Meyer has affirmed the same.
Kerner had a maternal uncle who was mad; his sister was melancholic and had two children, of whom one was insane, the other a somnambulist.
All his poems depict, in colours painfully vivid, suicidal and melancholic tendencies.
As a proof of this, it is sufficient to cite the following letter, written by a patient affected with melancholic delusion, to her husband, a country schoolmaster.
He was, in fact, a melancholic patient, subject to attacks of anxiety, and requiring long observation at a neuropsychiatric center for diagnosis.
The delirium of the physically injured sometimes takes on a melancholic tinge.
Logre classifies as a melancholic fugue the adventures of a man who had been depressed for some days, had stopped talking and eating, and ran away suddenly in the middle of an attack of anxious agitation.
She had been a stern dark woman, and had lent no feminine touch of grace to the palace while she lived in it, her melancholic temper rather rejoicing in the sepulchral gloom that hung over the house.
Meantime my melancholic companion in crime was weeping and wailing on the bed.
I believe a genuinemelancholic would have died under their hands.
As a religious melancholic he must do nothing but weep or pray or read his Bible, while his heart, if it was anything like mine, was thumping with joy at being quit of Yozgad and moving westwards towards Europe, England, and Liberty!
Hill’s life was saved by the fact that he was not a melancholic and by the care taken of him by Captain T.
Here we meet with a new and important feature in the little one's life: that is, we meet with reveries, even a tendency towards poetic fancies and melancholic attacks.
We know the depressing effect mournful and melancholic persons have upon us.
The reproaches and attacks directed towards the object come to light in the shape of melancholic self-reproaches.
A change into mania is not an indispensable feature of the symptomatology of melancholic depression.
There were even times when her father’s rigid and merciless view of the soul pleased her, and was in sympathy with her slightly melancholic temperament.
It appears that the Major, with a maiden sister who had kept his house, was subject to fits of melancholic lunacy, an infirmity easily reconcilable with the formal pretences which he made to a high show of religious zeal.
During the time he was in the house, he was in a very low and melancholic state; shewed an aversion to food, and said he was resolved to die.
It was then deposed, by the persons who brought him, that he had been for eight months in a melancholic state; but they were unable to assign any circumstances, which preceded his disorder, as a cause of his disease.
His life was miserably divided between furious paroxysms and melancholic languor, and there was great uncertainty in the duration of these states.
Her father was in a melancholic state for two years, before she was born, but this was afterwards dissipated by active employment.
There are patients in Bethlem Hospital, whose lives are divided between furious and melancholic paroxysms, and who, under both forms, retain the same set of ideas.
He had a large tumor on the throat which extended backward to the neck, principally on the left side; the increase of this swelling, they alledged, had much alarmed him, at the commencement of his melancholic attack.
His mother was melancholic during the time she was pregnant with him, and never afterwards completely recovered.
The melancholic cases have been equally relieved with the maniacal by this mode of treatment.
Madmen, do not always continue in the same furious or depressed states: the maniacal paroxysm abates of its violence, and some beams of hope, occasionally cheer the despondency of the melancholic patients.
She was in a truly melancholic state; she was lost to all the comforts of this life, and conceived herself abandoned for ever by God.
She had five children previously to this melancholic attack, who have hitherto continued of sound mind.
I know not whether I am justified in drawing from this description the conclusion that Tasso was, physically, a man of mixed lymphatic and melancholic temperament, of more than ordinary sensitiveness.
He suffers under peculiar delusions, believing himself guilty of heresy and dreading poison; which state of mind arises, I incline to think, from melancholic blood forced in upon the heart and vaporing to the brain.
In the melancholic states it usually beats less frequently and is sluggish.
Undoubtedly some of the old monastic regulations were efficient in preventing the more serious developments of despondency when the danger to himself and others of the melancholic was not so well recognized as at present.
Persons of a melancholic disposition may be surprisingly cheerful, and even gay, with comparative strangers when they make the effort to be so.
Every physician knows that if melancholic patients of the milder type can be amused quietly, their depression is modified for the better.
Melancholic states have occasionally been attributed to the slowness of the pulse, but the slow pulse seems to be a symptom connected with the mental condition rather than a causative factor.
A mother who is melancholic about her health and includes her children in her gloomy outlook makes away with them and herself.
At one side Mrs. Benham conversed in melancholic monotones with two elderly French ladies, who were clad in depressing black of a dowdiness surpassed only in English provincial towns.
We have patients in Bethlem Hospital, whose lives are divided between furious, and melancholic paroxisms; and who, under both states, retain the same set of ideas.
Knowing I had a bit of a melancholic streak in my blood, Norm used to wonder if I simply did not wish to live.
Leaving Syracuse was a melancholic affair which generated an inner sense of solitude and reminded me that I had no close friends of my own age and gender at home.
She preaches nothing but feasting and jollity; a melancholicanxious look shows that she does not inhabit there.
And yet, a for all that, I would not have this pupil of ours imprisoned and made a slave to his book; nor would I have him given up to the morosity and melancholic humour of a sour ill-natured pedant.
Morbid and melancholic had been her disposition at the commencement of the chapter:--morbid and melancholic she would naturally remain to its close.
She was certainly waking up from her normal melancholic condition; for, before this, she had been seen to smile--a phenomenon never noticed in her before by her oldest acquaintance.
The old soldiers had little regard for their new officers; and it quickly appeared, by the select and affected mixtures of sullen and melancholic parties of officers and soldiers.
When stags grow melancholic you 'll find the season.
Yes; and, like yourmelancholic hare, Feed after midnight.
Or, like the black andmelancholic yew-tree, Dost think to root thyself in dead men's graves, And yet to prosper?
So may you blame some fair and crystal river, For that some melancholic distracted man Hath drown'd himself in 't.
I 'll close mine eyes, And in a melancholic thought I 'll frame [Enter Isabella's Ghost.
Melancholia precedes mania so constantly that it is not an unusual mistake in diagnosis to consider a patient melancholic when an outbreak of mania is really preparing.
As a rule melancholic patients should be treated in an institution.
Indeed, some of the melancholic qualities on which the unfortunate impulse to self-murder depends are likely to have exhibited themselves in former generations.
Most patients who have one attack of severe depression of spirits will surely have others if they are placed in circumstances that encourage the development of melancholic ideas.
In many cases the refusal of food is associated with the patient's melancholic delusions.
The immediate cause of the development of such a melancholic state is always some unfortunate event in the course of life.
As we have said elsewhere, brooding over the details of these is very likely to lessen the natural abhorrence of self-murder in persons that are predisposed, by melancholic dispositions, to such an act.
It is not surprising, then, to find that melancholic patients are liable to suffer from deeper mental depression during the morning hours.
As a matter of fact the refusal to eat is associated with the lowered state of function all through the system, which is the basis of the melancholic condition.
After enduring supposed persecution for as long as he considers it possible, the melancholicturns on his persecutors and inflicts bodily harm.
On the other hand, it is not an unusual thing to have melancholic patients commit homicide with the idea of putting friends out of a wicked world.
Add to that worries about money with melancholic recollections of the past, that is my condition, and I assure you that I make great efforts to get out of it.
My lady" appeared more melancholic than ordinarily, when congratulating me on my successful entry into public life.
To a man of a naturally melancholicand brooding temper, as John Ralston was, illusions have a very great value.
And if he is somewhat melancholic by nature, he is very ready to think that the future holds but two possibilities,--the love of woman so long as it may last, and an easy death of some sort when there is no more love.
The poet Spenser hath made all his viler passions dwellers in caves and darkness, and with truth; for solitude is fatal, where there are morbid and melancholic tendencies.
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