Solitude [ Feelings & Emotions ]
… or permanently alone – entered the English vocabulary. 4 2 . Diana Webb, Privacy and Solitude in the Middle Ages (London & New York: Continuum, 2007), p. xv. 3 . Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language (London, 1755), entry for ‘Solitude’. 4 . Fay Bound Alberti, A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion (Oxford: … Converse not with thine Enemy ’. 7 7 . N. H., The Ladies Dictionary; Being a General Entertainment for the Fair-Sex (London, 1694), p. 73. The dangers of solitude persisted well into the eighteenth century and are subtly conveyed in …
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