All 4 Uses of
melancholy
in
Persuasion, by Jane Austen
- It was painful to look upon their deserted grounds, and still worse to anticipate the new hands they were to fall into; and to escape the solitariness and the melancholy of so altered a village, and be out of the way when Admiral and Mrs Croft first arrived, she had determined to make her own absence from home begin when she must give up Anne.†
Chpt 5melancholy = a sad feeling or manner
- The party from Uppercross passing down by the now deserted and melancholy looking rooms, and still descending, soon found themselves on the sea-shore; and lingering only, as all must linger and gaze on a first return to the sea, who ever deserved to look on it at all, proceeded towards the Cobb, equally their object in itself and on Captain Wentworth's account: for in a small house, near the foot of an old pier of unknown date, were the Harvilles settled.†
Chpt 11
- He had a pleasing face and a melancholy air, just as he ought to have, and drew back from conversation.†
Chpt 11 *
- Indeed I think it quite melancholy to have such excellent people as Dr and Mrs Shirley, who have been doing good all their lives, wearing out their last days in a place like Uppercross, where, excepting our family, they seem shut out from all the world.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
a sad feeling or manner -- sometimes thoughtfully sad