But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.
There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.
Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter.
Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off.
Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.
I'm so involved in melancholy.
A lot of the time there is a lot of melancholy in the lyrics.
I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general.
What I find remarkable is that so much of the 18th century literature that I read is more accessible than reading your alternative weekly from ten years ago. People really aspired to write clearly.
Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.