Before the kindness and gratitude that beamed from her eyes, the misanthropy that had frozen up his bosom began to dissolve, and the gloom on his features died away, as a vapour before the face of the morning sun.
The misanthropyof Timon pours itself out in a torrent of maledictions on the whole race of man; and these at once recall, alike by their form and their substance, the most powerful speeches uttered by Lear in his madness.
One can believe that Shakespeare had been tempted at times to feel misanthropy and despair, but it is quite impossible that he can have been mastered by such feelings at the time when he produced this conception.
Man pleased Shakespeare and woman also, when he wrote his tragedies, else the players would have had lenten entertainment; for a drama founded upon misanthropy would have been unendurable.
In Timon of Athens the poet exhibits misanthropy as the evasion of weakness from the ruins of a self-indulgent optimism, and we may say that in Timon of Athens he bade farewell to gloom.
Panurge has some Yahooish characteristics, but he is not a Yahoo--in fact, there is no misanthropyin Rabelais.
This melancholy and this misanthropydiffer from any previously known.
And it is from this character that the melancholy and misanthropy of the new literature may be said to emanate.
So the saving of Kemal-Reis, dreaded for reason of his cruelties, was due to the bitter misanthropy of Pog.
Surely, Pog must have had a terrible vengeance to wreak upon humanity, his misanthropy must have partaken of the nature of madness, that he could have been guilty of the sacrilegious cruelty of thus degrading a pure young soul!
His misanthropy is like the misanthropy of Shakespeare's Timon--his crushing sarcasms strike blow after blow at the poor flesh and blood he despises.
It was tacitly acknowledged that her own troubles, as to which she kept the most profound silence, far outweighed mine, though the causes I assigned for my misanthropy might have satisfied Young or Job.
His melancholy is a comedy-melancholy, his misanthropy is only the humourist's craving to give free vent to his satirical inspirations.
Timon turns hermit in order to escape from the sight of human beings, and this misanthropy is no mere mask worn to conceal his despair at the loss of this world's goods, since it stands the test of the finding of the treasure.
With the addition of despairing bitterness and misanthropy he would be Timon, and he becomes Timon.
Yet we must not take his melancholy and his misanthropy too seriously.
That misanthropy made his ambition more intense, because it increased his scorn for the human instruments it employed.
The circumstances of his life had placed this strong nature at war with society, and corrupted into misanthropy affections that had once been ardent.
I think I have before remarked that people go into society for enjoyment--relaxation from the grave duties and cares of life--not to be depressed by the misanthropy of others, or disturbed by details of scenes of horror.
Melancholy and misanthropy always mingled with his feelings; he was, in fact, the father of our modern 'world-pain.
Misanthropy is a charming feeling for a short time, and one inhales the country, and animadverts on the town, with the most melancholy satisfaction in the world.
Heaven pardon me if the misanthropyof my mood made me less grateful for the maternal solicitude than I should otherwise have been.
In short, if ever there was such a man as Moredock, he, in my way of thinking, was either misanthrope or nothing; and his misanthropy the more intense from being focused on one race of men.
He declares that man is not an animal rationale, but only rationis capax: and he then adds, "Upon this great foundation of misanthropy .
As his misanthropy deepened, he applied the same method to mankind at large.
Readers who wish to indulge in a harmless play of fancy will do well to omit the last two voyages; for the strain of misanthropy which breathes in them is simply oppressive.
But Hervey represents the time when dissipation had run a long course, and disgust, sanctity, and misanthropy were succeeding.
The general corruption and wickedness produced a remarkable misanthropy in the minds of men, which is reflected in the savage satire of Swift, in the bitter invective of Junius, in the cynicism of Lord Hervey.
His misanthropy was founded partly on observation of the evil and corruption which he saw about him, and partly on the suspicions and exaggerations of his own imagination.
His naïve confidence in life and himself ended in jealousmisanthropy and hypochondria.
Childe Harold's sorrows are those of Lord Byron, but there no longer exists any trace of misanthropy or of satiety.
As to the misanthropy of his early youth, it was of so slight a nature that it only passed through his mind, and occasionally rested on his pen; but it always evaporated in words, and especially in his verses.
But his heart found an aliment for misanthropy in the selfish answer given by one of his comrades, who was alarmed at the expense of getting a portrait taken.
A sort of misanthropy stole over his soul, chaining him to the East for two years, as a land where both soul and heart were less tried.
All the sympathies enlisted during his travels (and those who knew him thought them most natural) must certainly have acted on his loving, grateful heart, banishing misanthropy if he had experienced it.
Then, misanthropy and disgust of life assume a phase in which pain is not without a certain charm.
Nay, it is the consequence of misanthropy at the detection of the frauds of unsophisticated society," said Norman.
That there was any more fanfaronnade either of vice or of misanthropy about him, I do not believe.
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