Solitude [ Feelings & Emotions ]
… Anatomy of Melancholy (Oxford, 1621), p. 117. Aside from the lack of humanity associated with nature, one of the major kinds of melancholy that Burton associates with solitude was religious melancholy, where sociability was not an obvious … to many readers of didactic literature from this period was that of Diogenes of Sinope, who warned a young man walking alone and ‘discoursing with himself’ to ‘ Take Heed ... that thou Converse not with thine Enemy ’. 7 7 . N. H., The … Lipsedge suggests, ‘to possess, control, and mediate her own space’ and thus to ‘maintain her inner self’. 9 Yet in seeking retreat from the people around her, the time she spent in the unregulated space of her closet came to have …
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