Melancholy [ Feelings & Emotions ]
… to me a sterile promontory’ and man himself a ‘quintessence of dust’; 2 or as a later non-fictitious sufferer, James Boswell, more prosaically writes in an essay in the London Magazine in 1780, ‘All that is illustrious in publick life, … Hamlet, ed. Harold Jenkins (London: Methuen, 1982), Act II, scene ii, ll. p. 295-299, 308, p. 253-254. 3 . James Boswell, Boswell’s Column, ed. Margery Bailey (London: William Kimber, 1951), p. 209. Equally significant, though, were the …
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