| Joseph Dennie, John Elihu Hall - 1801 - 674 pages
...is passed in distracting wakefulness, or in dreams more terrible than waking thoughts; nor does Jie light of the sun chase away a single distressing idea....behind me, my melancholy would cleave to me there." But the most awful symptom of this disease remains yet to be mentioned, and that is DBS PAI 11. The... | |
| 1813 - 706 pages
...terrible than waking thoughts; nor docs ihe light of the sun chase away a single distressing idea. " 1 rise in the morning," says Mr. Cowper in a letter...behind me, my melancholy would cleave to me there." But the most awful symptom of this disease remains yet to be mentioned, and that is DCSFAIB. The marks... | |
| 700 pages
...terrible than waking thoughts; nor does the light of the sun chase away a single distressing iilea. " I rise in the morning," says Mr. Cowper in a letter...could leave my body behind me, my melancholy would cleavt to me there." But the most awful symptom of this disease remains yet to be mentioned. And that... | |
| William Hayley - 1812 - 450 pages
...advantage. ,. I began this letter yesterday, but could not finish it till now. I have risen this morning like an infernal frog out of Acheron, covered with the ooze and mud of melancholy. For this reason I am not sorry to find myself at the bottom of my paper, for had I more room perhaps... | |
| William Cowper, William Hayley - 1812 - 446 pages
...advantage'. I began this letter yesterday, but could not finish it till now. I have risen this morning like an infernal frog out of Acheron, covered with the ooze and mud of melancholy. For this reasbn I am not sorry to find myself at the bottom of my paper, for had I more room perhaps... | |
| Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1830 - 600 pages
...humbled and depressed ; my life was an aching void. I rose in the morning, as poor Cowper says he did, ' like an infernal frog out of Acheron, covered with the ooze and mud of melancholy,' and my days flowed like a half-stagnant and turbid stream, that gives back no image of the bright heaven... | |
| William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...advantage. I began this letter yesterday, ! >m could . not finish it till now. - 1 have risen this morning like an infernal frog out of Acheron, covered with the ooze and mud of melancholy. Hw tiis reason I am not sorry to find myself at the bottom of my paper, for had I more room perhaps... | |
| 1832 - 478 pages
...away a. single distressing idea. " I rise in the morning," says Cowper, in a letter to Mr. Hayley, " like an infernal frog out of Acheron, covered with...behind me, my melancholy would cleave to me there." Can any thing be anticipated more dreadful than universal madness ? and yet I once attended a lady... | |
| Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1834 - 574 pages
...similar to what he tells us of his later periods of depression. He rose in the morning, he says, ' like an infernal frog out of Acheron, covered with the ooze and mud of melancholy ; ' but as the sun rose higher, his gloom gradually cleared up, its depth and duration depending upon... | |
| William Cowper - 1835 - 448 pages
...advantage. I began this letter yesterday, but could not finish it till now. I have risen this morning like an infernal frog out of Acheron, covered with the ooze and mud of melancholy. For this reason I am not sorry to find myself at the bottom of my paper, for had I more room perhaps... | |
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