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melancholy
in
Bartleby, the Scrivener: a Story of Wall Street
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- For the first time in my life a feeling of overpowering stinging melancholy seized me.
*melancholy = sadness or depression
- A fraternal melancholy!†
melancholy = a sad feeling or manner
- My first emotions had been those of pure melancholy and sincerest pity; but just in proportion as the forlornness of Bartleby grew and grew to my imagination, did that same melancholy merge into fear, that pity into repulsion.†
- My first emotions had been those of pure melancholy and sincerest pity; but just in proportion as the forlornness of Bartleby grew and grew to my imagination, did that same melancholy merge into fear, that pity into repulsion.†
- Yet a certain melancholy mixed with this: I was almost sorry for my brilliant success.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(melancholy) a sad feeling or manner -- sometimes thoughtfully sad
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)