All 32 Uses of
melancholy
in
Middlemarch
- "—BURTON'S Anatomy of Melancholy, P. I, s. 2.†
Chpt 1
- He had no sense of being eclipsed by Mr. Casaubon; he was only shocked that Dorothea was under a melancholy illusion, and his mortification lost some of its bitterness by being mingled with compassion.†
Chpt 1
- This was the happy side of the house, for the south and east looked rather melancholy even under the brightest morning.†
Chpt 1 *
- The building, of greenish stone, was in the old English style, not ugly, but small-windowed and melancholy-looking: the sort of house that must have children, many flowers, open windows, and little vistas of bright things, to make it seem a joyous home.†
Chpt 1
- She was melancholy, and seemed grateful; her presence was enough, like that of the evening light.†
Chpt 2
- Laure looked at him in silence with a melancholy radiance from under her grand eyelids, until he was full of rapturous certainty, and knelt close to her knees.†
Chpt 2
- I am not a sad, melancholy creature.†
Chpt 2
- But as he rode home, he began to be more conscious of being ill, than of being melancholy.†
Chpt 3
- These were heavy impressions to struggle against, and brought that melancholy embitterment which is the consequence of all excessive claim: even his religious faith wavered with his wavering trust in his own authorship, and the consolations of the Christian hope in immortality seemed to lean on the immortality of the still unwritten Key to all Mythologies.†
Chpt 3
- "Of course she is devoted to her husband," said Rosamond, implying a notion of necessary sequence which the scientific man regarded as the prettiest possible for a woman; but she was thinking at the same time that it was not so very melancholy to be mistress of Lowick Manor with a husband likely to die soon.†
Chpt 3
- "I see how it is, my dear," said Mrs. Bulstrode, in a melancholy voice, rising to go.†
Chpt 3
- I trust we shall meet under less melancholy auspices.†
Chpt 3
- I dare say Dodo likes it: she is fond of melancholy things and ugly people.†
Chpt 4
- It was a time, according to a noticeable article in the "Pioneer," when the crying needs of the country might well counteract a reluctance to public action on the part of men whose minds had from long experience acquired breadth as well as concentration, decision of judgment as well as tolerance, dispassionateness as well as energy—in fact, all those qualities which in the melancholy experience of mankind have been the least disposed to share lodgings.†
Chpt 4
- She was looking out on the lawn, with melancholy meditation.†
Chpt 4
- "Oh, my life is very simple," said Dorothea, her lips curling with an exquisite smile, which irradiated her melancholy.†
Chpt 4
- Their most characteristic result was not the "Key to all Mythologies," but a morbid consciousness that others did not give him the place which he had not demonstrably merited—a perpetual suspicious conjecture that the views entertained of him were not to his advantage—a melancholy absence of passion in his efforts at achievement, and a passionate resistance to the confession that he had achieved nothing.†
Chpt 4
- Lydgate, conscious of an energetic frame in its prime, felt some compassion when the figure which he was likely soon to overtake turned round, and in advancing towards him showed more markedly than ever the signs of premature age—the student's bent shoulders, the emaciated limbs, and the melancholy lines of the mouth.†
Chpt 4
- Lydgate, certain that his patient wished to be alone, soon left him; and the black figure with hands behind and head bent forward continued to pace the walk where the dark yew-trees gave him a mute companionship in melancholy, and the little shadows of bird or leaf that fleeted across the isles of sunlight, stole along in silence as in the presence of a sorrow.†
Chpt 4
- When the kind quiet melancholy of that speech fell on Dorothea's ears, she felt something like the thankfulness that might well up in us if we had narrowly escaped hurting a lamed creature.†
Chpt 4
- There was a melancholy cadence in Dorothea's voice as she spoke these last words.†
Chpt 5
- Mrs. Waule had a melancholy triumph in the proof that it did not answer to make false Featherstones and cut off the genuine; and Sister Martha receiving the news in the Chalky Flats said, "Dear, dear! then the Almighty could have been none so pleased with the almshouses after all."†
Chpt 5
- You say yourself there is nothing to be done there: everybody is so clean and well off, it makes you quite melancholy.†
Chpt 6
- "The cows will all cast their calves, brother," said Mrs. Waule, in a tone of deep melancholy, "if the railway comes across the Near Close; and I shouldn't wonder at the mare too, if she was in foal.†
Chpt 6
- "Rosamond," he said, turning his eyes on her with a melancholy look, "you should allow for a man's words when he is disappointed and provoked.†
Chpt 7
- But Mr. Farebrother, whose hopes entered strongly into the same current with Lydgate's, and who knew nothing about him that could now raise a melancholy presentiment, left him with affectionate congratulation.†
Chpt 7
- Dorothea's impetuous generosity, which would have leaped at once to the vindication of Lydgate from the suspicion of having accepted money as a bribe, underwent a melancholy check when she came to consider all the circumstances of the case by the light of Mr. Farebrother's experience.†
Chpt 8
- Men had always thought her a handsome comfortable woman, and had reckoned it among the signs of Bulstrode's hypocrisy that he had chosen a red-blooded Vincy, instead of a ghastly and melancholy person suited to his low esteem for earthly pleasure.†
Chpt 8
- Her cordial look, when she put out her hand to him, softened his expression, but only with melancholy.†
Chpt 8
- With these exceptions she had sat at home in languid melancholy and suspense, fixing her mind on Will Ladislaw's coming as the one point of hope and interest, and associating this with some new urgency on Lydgate to make immediate arrangements for leaving Middlemarch and going to London, till she felt assured that the coming would be a potent cause of the going, without at all seeing how.†
Chpt 8
- Her melancholy had become so marked that Lydgate felt a strange timidity before it, as a perpetual silent reproach, and the strong man, mastered by his keen sensibilities towards this fair fragile creature whose life he seemed somehow to have bruised, shrank from her look, and sometimes started at her approach, fear of her and fear for her rushing in only the more forcibly after it had been momentarily expelled by exasperation.†
Chpt 8
- Celia had slipped her arm through her uncle's, and he patted her hand with a rather melancholy "Well, my dear!"†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(melancholy) a sad feeling or manner -- sometimes thoughtfully sad