 | Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 512 էջ
...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...acquainted with them — exactly describe my case : 20 " A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear, A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief, Which... | |
 | Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 530 էջ
...Coleridge's " Dejection " — I was not then acquainted with them — exactly describe my case: 20 " A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear, A drowsy,...grief, Which finds no natural outlet or relief In vord, or sigh, or tear." In vain I sought relief from my favourite books; those 25 memorials of past... | |
 | John Wooster Robertson - 1921 - 472 էջ
...of itself; but it did not. ... I carried it with me into all companies, into all occupations. . . . For some months the cloud seemed to grow thicker and thicker. The lines in Coleridge's 'Dejection' exactly described my case : 'A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear, A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned... | |
 | William John Fielding - 1922 - 416 էջ
...an attack of insanity, which he himself could only describe in the following words of Coleridge's: A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear, A drowsy,...natural outlet or relief In word, or sigh, or tear. James Watt, the inventor, was physically an invalid. In his youth, he suffered agony from continued... | |
 | John Wooster Robertson - 1922 - 366 էջ
...of itself; but it did not. ... I carried it with me into all companies, into all occupations. . . . For some months the cloud seemed to grow thicker and thicker. The lines in Coleridge's "Dejection" exactly described my case: 'A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear, A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned... | |
 | Emery Edward Neff - 1924 - 354 էջ
...Mill fell into a state which he later found exactly described by these lines in Coleridge's Dejection: A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear, A drowsy,...natural outlet or relief In word, or sigh, or tear. The bloom had been brushed from life ; its uses were weary, stale and unprofitable ; its pleasures... | |
 | Emery Edward Neff - 1926 - 458 էջ
...Mill fell into a state which he later found exactly described by these lines in Coleridge's Dejection: A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear, A drowsy,...natural outlet or relief In word, or sigh, or tear. The bloom had been brushed from life; its uses were weary, stale and unprofitable; its pleasures left... | |
 | 1877 - 926 էջ
...the means ? I seemed to have nothing left to live for. . . . The lines in Coleridge's Dejection . . . exactly describe my case : " A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear, A drowsy, stifled, unirupassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet or relief In word, or sigh, or tear. Work, without... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1873 - 372 էջ
...foundation on which my life was constructed fell down." He gives Coleridge's lines as exactly describing his case " A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear,...natural outlet or relief In word, or sigh, or tear." The account we have of the effect produced on his opinions and character by this state of mind is curious... | |
 | Robert F. Hobson - 1985 - 340 էջ
...this my heart sank within me: the whole foundation on which my life was constructed fell down . . . The end had ceased to charm, and how could there ever...finds no natural outlet or relief In word, or sigh, or tear."'2 Books, scholarships, the betterment of mankind, and talking with others did not help. He writes:... | |
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I carried it with me into all companies, into all occupations. Hardly anything had power to cause me even a few minutes oblivion of it. 
