All 8 Uses of
melancholy
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- "From the fields and from the vineyards Came no fruits to deck the feasts, Only flesh of bloodstained victims Smoldered on the altar-fires, And where'er the grieving goddess Turns her melancholy gaze, Sunk in vilest degradation Man his loathsomeness displays."†
Chpt 3
- They are simply the Romish army for the earthly sovereignty of the world in the future, with the Pontiff of Rome for Emperor …. that's their ideal, but there's no sort of mystery or lofty melancholy about it….†
Chpt 5 *
- The frantic outcries of bigots could not shake him, but his heart was suddenly filled with melancholy for some special reason and he felt that.†
Chpt 7
- Although Mitya was excited and expansive, yet he was melancholy, too.†
Chpt 8
- He listened gloomily, with a melancholy and exhausted air, as though he would say: "Oh, say what you like.†
Chpt 9
- Those Jesuit confessionals are really my most delightful diversion at melancholy moments.†
Chpt 11
- Think of that unhappy, vicious, unbridled old man, who has met with such a melancholy end, the head of a family!†
Chpt 12
- And in a fit of melancholy arising from his disease and this catastrophe he hanged himself yesterday.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(melancholy) a sad feeling or manner -- sometimes thoughtfully sad