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Melancholy [ Feelings & Emotions ]

… Thomas Gray in such works as Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard . Concepts > Feelings & Emotions Keywords Futility Despair Self-indulgence Self-doubt Salvation Solitude Community In almost every way, melancholy was always the very … Anatomy of Melancholy , and the poet Thomas Gray in such works as Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard . … Futility … Despair … Self-indulgence … Self-doubt … Salvation … Solitude … Community … Melancholy …

Solitude [ Feelings & Emotions ]

… solitude and religion was complex. For some, this overwhelming sense of aloneness might stem from a state of spiritual despair that they had been abandoned by God. Yet solitude was the favoured place in which to achieve a higher connection …

Hell-fire Clubs [ Clubs & Societies / Association ]

… Nocturnal Revels (1779). Chrysal in particular speaks of ‘dissertations of such gross lewdness, and daring impiety, as despair may be supposed to dictate to the damn’d’, 17   indicating that ‘the end of their meeting was to worship the …

Touch and sociability [ Communication ]

… 12  Anne Lister’s Yorkshire diary shows her repeatedly concerned about the coarseness of her associates, despairing of finding a circle in which she would be comfortable, and alienated from her father by his ’vulgarity.’ 13 11 …

Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]

… over from public ones, as shown by the case of the Elliots in Persuasion who went to Bath to settle permanently, to the despair of Anne Elliot, the middle daughter of the family. The exploitation of its Roman and Georgian pasts became an …