These folk-tales reflect the sweet carelessness of the Irish soul, the stern sadness of the Scotch, the psychic subtlety of the modern English.
Here, as in many instances elsewhere, the sadness of the diabolic character is emphasized, a definite human element.
They scarcely said another word, oppressed by the superhuman sadness which enwrapped them like a shroud.
It may be that the sadness which I wear Hath clothed him in its own peculiar hue.
I felt saddened by the tale I had already heard; it had given, as such things will, a soft tinge of sadness to all my own thoughts, and fancies, and hopes.
To-day I feel, and yet I know not why, A sadness which I never knew before; A puzzling shadow swims upon my brain, Of something which has been or is to be.
He saw them suffering so great sadness that their weeping did not dare to mount from the heart to the eyes, nor could the bosom trust its respiration to the lips.
His air of graceful sadness could not but lead her to muse as often as she observed it; he had contemplated himself in the mirror, and each time with reassurance on this point.
That bliss bestow'd without alloy; Or if soft sadness claim'd a part, 'Twas sadnesssweeter still than joy.
Tis a sadness I ween, how the glow and the sheen Of the rosiest mien from their glory subside; How hurries the hour on our race, that shall lower The arm of our power, and the step of our pride.
Ah, there shall come a Dawn at last That brings no life-stir to your ken, A long, cold Dawn without a Day, And ye shall rede its sadness then.
Madge looked at Mrs. Home a moment in silence, and the sadness of her eyes was melted into pure tenderness.
Sadness crept in, through the loss of James's daughter Elizabeth; but two more came to lift this shadow in the Fenimore home.
All the fields were green and lovely with the promise which summer crowns and autumn reaps; and it was all so lovely a world that there seemed in it no room for care or sadness or any dismal thing.
And in sight of this immeasurability of life, no sadness could endure; but only joy that knew no limit, and happy prayers.
Solitude, and even sadness itself, exert an inexpressible influence over us.
There is a passion in the heart of man, a passion which exerts a powerful influence on the destinies of his life, and too often, by its deceitful illusions, forms a long chain of sadness and misfortune.
All about now over the warrens their plaintive, wailing notes are heard, notes that seem a part of the deepening gloom and sad sky; for nature's own sadness seems to speak in the voice of these birds.
Greece, in her classic age, enounced the most touching maxims of pity and benevolence, without connecting with them any conception of sadness or social misfortune.
Elsewhere he confirms the need of such consolation when he says: “We experience in our own selves” that sadness is of frequent occurrence.
Her only sadness was in leaving the friends whom she loved and who might yet need her.
The friends of the family who gathered to pay their last tribute of respect and love to the aged father were met at the threshold by the startling intelligence, "Louisa Alcott is dead," and a deeper sadness fell upon every heart.
Women of all ages were assembled there, from the matron of threescore years and ten to the fair girl whose interest in the war had brought to her a premature sadness and high resolve.
And here is the secret of the infinite sadness of women of genius; of their dissatisfaction with life, in exact proportion to their development.
He was a widower and, though he had got over the sadness of the loss of his wife, he still missed a woman's companionship.
My sadness comes from the conviction that her husband is unworthy of her.
He had drawn all the forces of his success and energy from the school of humility; he was modest, peaceable, and little expansive, like all those to whom a premature sadness has proved that to ask sympathy provokes only raillery in this world.
It is a source of sadness for me that I know a mass of useless things, and that I am ignorant of that which most interests me.
No doubt life, regarded in all its gravity, is full of sadness everywhere," said Jacob.
So his sadness was but brief, and be soon became hopeful again.
Mr. George Ritchie's death no doubt threw a shade of sadness over the whole party on Mrs. Harrison's account, though all were charming and Miss Belle very sweet.
Since then I have often recalled the sadness of his face, its careworn expression.
