Solitude [ Feelings & Emotions ]
… 5 5 . Robert Burton, The 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 … with books that treat of characters’, for ‘[n]othing fits a man more for conversation’. He described the pleasing nature of the conversation he had with his cousin Joseph Billio, ‘because we can fall into subjects that are speculative …
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