All 15 Uses of
melancholy
in
Mansfield Park
- CHAPTER VI Mr. Bertram set off for——, and Miss Crawford was prepared to find a great chasm in their society, and to miss him decidedly in the meetings which were now becoming almost daily between the families; and on their all dining together at the Park soon after his going, she retook her chosen place near the bottom of the table, fully expecting to feel a most melancholy difference in the change of masters.†
Chpt 6
- There is nothing awful here, nothing melancholy, nothing grand.†
Chpt 9 *
- For a moment no one spoke; and then many spoke together to tell the same melancholy truth, that they had not yet got any Anhalt.†
Chpt 15
- After seeing William to the last moment, Fanny walked back to the breakfast-room with a very saddened heart to grieve over the melancholy change; and there her uncle kindly left her to cry in peace, conceiving, perhaps, that the deserted chair of each young man might exercise her tender enthusiasm, and that the remaining cold pork bones and mustard in William's plate might but divide her feelings with the broken egg-shells in Mr. Crawford's.†
Chpt 29
- It was a heavy, melancholy day.†
Chpt 29
- He was returning to Mansfield with spirits ready to feed on melancholy remembrances, and tender associations, when her own fair self was before him, leaning on her brother's arm, and he found himself receiving a welcome, unquestionably friendly, from the woman whom, two moments before, he had been thinking of as seventy miles off, and as farther, much farther, from him in inclination than any distance could express.†
Chpt 34
- She had not foreseen anything of this, and her feelings could seldom withstand the melancholy influence of the word "last."†
Chpt 36
- To have such a fine young man cut off in the flower of his days is most melancholy.†
Chpt 45
- She felt that she had, indeed, been three months there; and the sun's rays falling strongly into the parlour, instead of cheering, made her still more melancholy, for sunshine appeared to her a totally different thing in a town and in the country.†
Chpt 46
- Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy, and her occupations were hopeful.†
Chpt 46
- Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy, and her occupations were hopeful.†
Chpt 46
- It made her melancholy again; and the knowledge of what must be enduring there, invested even the house, modern, airy, and well situated as it was, with a melancholy aspect.†
Chpt 46
- It made her melancholy again; and the knowledge of what must be enduring there, invested even the house, modern, airy, and well situated as it was, with a melancholy aspect.†
Chpt 46
- She was returned to Mansfield Park, she was useful, she was beloved; she was safe from Mr. Crawford; and when Sir Thomas came back she had every proof that could be given in his then melancholy state of spirits, of his perfect approbation and increased regard; and happy as all this must make her, she would still have been happy without any of it, for Edmund was no longer the dupe of Miss Crawford.†
Chpt 48
- Where she could be placed became a subject of most melancholy and momentous consultation.†
Chpt 48
Definition:
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(melancholy) a sad feeling or manner -- sometimes thoughtfully sad