All 8 Uses of
melancholy
in
Dubliners
- She remembered the last night of her mother's illness; she was again in the close dark room at the other side of the hall and outside she heard a melancholy air of Italy.†
Chpt 4
- A gentle melancholy took possession of him.†
Chpt 8 *
- Melancholy was the dominant note of his temperament, he thought, but it was a melancholy tempered by recurrences of faith and resignation and simple joy.†
Chpt 8
- Melancholy was the dominant note of his temperament, he thought, but it was a melancholy tempered by recurrences of faith and resignation and simple joy.†
Chpt 8
- The English critics, perhaps, would recognise him as one of the Celtic school by reason of the melancholy tone of his poems; besides that, he would put in allusions.†
Chpt 8
- How melancholy it was!†
Chpt 8
- Could he, too, write like that, express the melancholy of his soul in verse?†
Chpt 8
- She looked out at the rain until the melancholy of the wet street effaced all the trustfulness and enthusiasm from her twisted features.†
Chpt 13
Definition:
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(melancholy) a sad feeling or manner -- sometimes thoughtfully sad