All 5 Uses of
melancholy
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version
- "You have done too many foolish things during the last fortnight to be entitled to give yourself that name, Dorian," answered Lord Henry, with his sweet, melancholy smile.†
Chpt 8 *melancholy = a sad feeling or manner
- and seeking often to elaborate a real psychology of perfumes, and to estimate the several influences of sweet-smelling roots, and scented pollen-laden flowers, or aromatic balms, and of dark and fragrant woods, of spikenard that sickens, of hovenia that makes men mad, and of aloes that are said to be able to expel melancholy from the soul.†
Chpt 11
- Ezzelin, whose melancholy could be cured only by the spectacle of death, and who had a passion for red blood, as other men have for red wine—the son of the Fiend, as was reported, and one who had cheated his father at dice when gambling with him for his own soul;†
Chpt 11
- He had changed, too—was strangely melancholy at times, appeared almost to dislike hearing music, and would never himself play, giving as his excuse, when he was called upon, that he was so absorbed in science that he had no time left in which to practise.†
Chpt 14
- It had brought melancholy across his passions.†
Chpt 20
Definition:
a sad feeling or manner -- sometimes thoughtfully sad