Which preposition to use with melancholies
Believe me, then, my devoted pupil, there can be nothing at all inconsistent with a prevalence of profound melancholy in your continued piano-playing; whereas, on the contrary, your sudden and permanent cessation might at least surprise your friends and the neighborhood into a light-heartedness temporarily oblivious of the memory of that dear, missing boy, to whom you could not, I hear, give the love already bestowed upon me.
But, in her cold and quiet features, I could detect nothing beyond the melancholy of grief; and the suspense from which all suffered, kept me also on the rack, until at a question from Mr. Moffat she spoke again, and we heard her say: "Yes, she died that way, with her hands in mine.
Jac. Lord, Madam, you are as melancholy as a sick Parrot. Jul.
After offering her guests some refreshments, Mrs. Fitzgerald, who appeared laboring under a greater melancholy than usual, proceeded to make them acquainted with the incidents of her life.
I hope you will understand by the nonsense of this letter that I am not melancholy at the thoughts of thy coming; I thought it necessary to add this, because you love precision.
'I inherited, (said he,) a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober[604].'
You've taken melancholy by the hand and won't let go of it.
Then he got up and dressed but continued very melancholy for the whole of the morning.
His command over the verse itself is almost miraculous: he glides from extreme to extreme, from punning to pathos, from melancholy to mad merriment, sighing or laughing by the way at his readers or at himself or at the stanzas.
" The hasty summons found Mrs. King still melancholy with the thought that her newly found son could be no more to her than a shadow.
At that instant the clock of the city began to tell the hour of two, and it was only as that appointed signal sounded heavy and melancholy on the night-air, that the undeceived Camillo got a certain glimpse of the truth.
Here his chief occupation was to fall in love and to record his melancholy over the lost Rosalind in the Shepherd's Calendar.
There is an air of profound unrest and melancholy about the best of them.
He worked damned hard for the French flag and the church, and the generous colonial bureau of France paid his widow a pension of ten dollars a month until she died of melancholy among the nuns.
But to my purpose, they can, last of all, cure and cause most diseases to such as they love or hate, and this of melancholy amongst the rest.
Bright, gay, enraptured, full of sunshine and glamour, like the summer day around Stockholm, it is traversed by a strain of melancholy like a smile through tears, the laugh which conceals a sob.
"I was reading, therefore, one of those dear poems (whose paint has more charm for me than the blush of youth), had plunged one hand into the fur of the pure animal, when a barrel organ sang languidly and melancholy beneath my window.
Not only animals of all kinds, both quadrupeds, fish, and birds, but all kinds of vegetables also are destroyed by the effluvia of the noxious tree; so that, in a district of 12 or 14 miles round it, the face of the earth is quite barren and rocky, intermixed only with the skeletons of men and animals; affording a scene of melancholy beyond what poets have described or painters delineated.
They were melancholy through their pain of heart, and the crowd of monks came out, and asked them from what kingdom they were come.
2. de Mania, relates of a Dutch baron, grievously tormented with melancholy after a long ague:
She became suddenly gay without joy, and melancholy without vexation.
"He looks melancholy enoughfor a bridegroom; don't you think so, Kate?"
We cannot be surprised to hear of the lady who said that a conversation with Chamfort in the morning made her melancholy until bedtime.
"One day came Melancholy unto me, And said, 'With thee I will awhile abide';
She glanced at the outfit For a second she fancied she saw again the slender form stretched in the shadow upon the ground while a pair of black inscrutable eyes looked with unfathomable melancholy up into her own.