...nothing left to live for. For months the cloud grew thicker and thicker — ' A grief without a pang, dark and drear, A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet of relief In word, or sigh, or tear.' "* In this trouble he could not go to his father, for he felt...

...Coleridge expressed exactly his condition, — "A grief without a paug, void, dark, and drear, A dreary, stifled, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet or relief In word, or sigh, or tear." He adds : "I sought no comfort by speaking to others of what I felt. If I had loved any one sufficiently...

...companies, into all occupations. Hardly anything had power to cause me even a few minutes' oblivion of it. For some months the cloud seemed to grow thicker and...without a pang, void, dark and drear, A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioncd grief, Which finds no natural outlet or relief In word, or sigh, or tear.' In vain I...

...burden ; a burden which he himself said was well described by Coleridge's lines on " Dejection: " " A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear, A drowsy,...natural outlet or relief, In word, or sigh, or tear." When a moderate happiness returned he discovered that, " Those only are happy who have their mind fixed...

...burden ; a burden which he himself said was well described by Coleridge's lines on " Dejection: " " A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear, A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief, \Vhich finds no natural outlet or relief, In word, or sigh, or tear." When a moderate happiness returned...

...companies, into all occupations. Hardly anything had power to cause me even a few minutes' oblivion of it. For some months the cloud seemed to grow thicker and...without a pang, void, dark and drear, A drowsy, stifled, unim;>assioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet or relief In word, or sigh, or tear." In vain I...

...and all his ideals seemed unsatisfying. Coleridge's lines, he tells us, exactly described his state: A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear, A drowsy,...natural outlet or relief In word, or sigh, or tear. At length he found relief in the sweetness and healing influence of Wordsworth's minor poems : What...

...mind would probably have developed into melancholia. "The lines in Coleridge's Dejection," he says, "exactly describe my case:" " A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear, A drowsy, stilled, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet or relief In word, or sigh, or tear." *...

...disease, a hideous apathetic melancholy, which he can only describe in the words of Coleridge : — "A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear : A...natural outlet or relief In word or sigh or tear. " He describes how a small ray of light broke in upon his gloom from reading a passage in Marmontel's...

...companies, into all occupations. Hardly anything had power to cause me even a few minutes' oblivion of it. For some months the cloud seemed to grow thicker and thicker. The lines in Coleridge's Dejection—I was not then acquainted with them—exactly described my case: " A grief without a pang,...