...feel anything. He quotes Coleridge's lines from "Dejection, an Ode" as a description of his condition: A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear, A drowsy,...natural outlet or relief In word, or sigh, or tear. (1:139) and ignoring the use of the laws of association to cultivate feelings, except for the feeling...

...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...— I was not then acquainted with them — exactly describes my case. "A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief,...

...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...

...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" — \ was not then acquainted with them — exactly describe my case: "'A grief without a pang, void,...

...how Coleridge's "Dejection," although he was not acquainted with it at the time, captured his mood: A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear A drowsy,...natural outlet or relief In word, or sigh, or tear. It is significant that when Mill writes about these events in his Autobiography, he quotes Romantic...

...epitomizes his anomie in those frightening (if slightly misquoted) lines of Coleridge's "Dejection: An Ode": A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear, A drowsy,...natural outlet or relief In word, or sigh, or tear. (21-24)20 He also found "the dry heavy dejection of the melancholy winter of 18267" captured in other...

...in 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 dreary, stifled, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet nor relief In word, or sight, or...

...how could there ever be again any interest in the means ? I seemed to have nothing left to live for The lines in Coleridge's "Dejection," — I was not then acquainted with them— exactly described my case *' A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear, A drowsy, stifled, U'timpassioned...