It was conceived as a leave-taking, a kind of melancholy gathering-in of the myths of the West, `` bevor die Nacht sinkt, eine lange Nacht vielleicht und ein tiefes Vergessen ''.

He was obsessed by disease and poverty, by the melancholy of old age and the tyranny of lust.

He was a sad-looking man ; his melancholy dripped from him as he walked.

Frederick William IV became extremely depressed and melancholy during this period, and was surrounded by men who advocated clericalism and absolute divine monarchy.

From the early 17th century, the play was famous for its ghost and vivid dramatisation of melancholy and insanity, leading to a procession of mad courtiers and ladies in Jacobean and Caroline drama.

Fingal written in 1762 was speedily translated into many European languages, and its deep appreciation of natural beauty and the melancholy tenderness of its treatment of the ancient legend did more than any single work to bring about the Romantic movement in European, and especially in German, literature, influencing Herder and Goethe.

For all his success, he was still his melancholy old self, grumbling and feuding with the studio, while his health was beginning to deteriorate.

Dowland's melancholic lyrics and music have often been described as his attempts to develop an " artistic persona " though he was actually a cheerful person, but many of his own personal complaints, and the tone of bitterness in many of his comments, suggest that much of his music and his melancholy truly did come from his own personality and frustration.

The distinctive quality of Achard's plays was their dreamlike mood of sentimental melancholy, underscored by the very titles which were primarily taken from popular bittersweet songs of the day.

The various uses of ḥuzn and hüzün thus describe melancholy from a certain vantage point, show similarities with female hysteria in the case of Avicenna's patient and in a religious context it is not unlike sloth, which by Dante was defined as " failure to love God with all one's heart, all one's mind and all one's soul ".

" He may not have minded, since he was by nature a solitary and melancholy person, bizzarro e fantastico a man who " withdrew himself from the company of men.

The Persian physician Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi (" Rhazes ", 845 – 930 CE ) maintained a laboratory and school in Baghdad, and was a student and critic of Galen, made use of opium in anesthesia and recommended its use for the treatment of melancholy in Fi ma-la-yahdara al-tabib " In the Absence of a Physician ", a home medical manual directed toward ordinary citizens for self-treatment if a doctor was not available.

He suffered from periodic bouts of " melancholy " ( depression ), which was common in the Habsburg line.

It described his analysis of a melancholy Danish count who was homosexual.

" It is remarkable that Luther, who vehemently attacked men like Erasmus and Bucer, when he thought that truth was at stake, never spoke directly against Melanchthon, and even during his melancholy last years conquered his temper.

The poet's mother, on the other hand, who was partly German by extraction, suffered from depression, which afterwards deepened into melancholy madness.

: We all observed, that we had not the sight of one fish of any kind, since we were come to the Southward of the streights of le Mair, nor one sea-bird, except a disconsolate black Albatross, who accompanied us for several days ..., till Hattley, ( my second Captain ) observing, in one of his melancholy fits, that this bird was always hovering near us, imagin'd, from his colour, that it might be some ill omen.

One of the humours ( body fluid ) was the black bile, secreted by the spleen organ and associated with melancholy.

One contemporary chronicle claimed that his death was due to " melancholy ," but it is widely suspected that Edward ordered Henry's murder in order to completely remove the Lancastrian opposition.

Rhun was Owain's favourite son, and his premature death in 1147 plunged his father into a deep melancholy, from which he was only roused by the news that his forces had captured Mold castle.

In his mood, it was the best way to handle him ; ;

City editor Victor Watson of the New York American was a man of brooding suspicions and mysterious shifts of mood.

Meynell's remedy for Thompson's despondent mood was typically practical.

The careless writing was in keeping with his mood of savage discontent.

Mr. Khrushchev was jesting in the expansive mood of the successful banker.

It was the first of two doubles by Robinson, who was in a mood to celebrate.

Ambassador Thompson reported from Moscow that the Soviet leader's mood was cocky and aggressive.

The term " manic-depressive illness " or psychosis was coined by German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin in the late nineteenth century, originally referring to all kinds of mood disorder.

This mood was epitomised in the Beveridge Report.

It was often seasoned with vanilla, chile pepper, and achiote, and was believed to fight fatigue, which is probably attributable to the theobromine content, a mood enhancer.

For example, until the bacterial cause of tuberculosis was discovered in 1882, experts variously ascribed the disease to heredity, a sedentary lifestyle, depressed mood, and overindulgence in sex, rich food, or alcohol — all the social ills of the time.

Elfman was apprehensive at first because of his lack of formal training, but with orchestration assistance from Oingo Boingo guitarist and arranger Steve Bartek, he achieved his goal of emulating the mood of such composers as Nino Rota and Bernard Herrmann.

The primary disturbance in dementia praecox was said to be not one of mood, but of thinking or cognition.

The Human Boy was a collection of schoolboy stories in the same genre as say, Rudyard Kipling's Stalky & Co., though different in mood and style.

When he was in a bad mood, he struck the ground with a trident, causing earthquakes and other calamities.

The film was released shortly before America became involved in World War II, and citizens were still in an isolationist mood.

It was clear by now that Henry was in no mood to reconcile and a compromise with him was not to be had.

Annoyed that he was made to wait in the waiting room for 40 minutes, Groucho went on the air in a foul mood.

He was silent a moment, thinking he could use a man this time of year, and if the girl could cook, it would give him more time in the meadows, but he knew nothing about the couple.

It was the only thing about her that was the least bit hard to remember.

The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;

Sometimes I was aware of people moving about in the darkness.

Everything about the clerk was trivial.

If, when this was all over, she found the words to tell him about it, she wondered if he would ever understand.

There was a peculiar density about it, a thick substance that could be sensed but never identified, never actually perceived.

Somehow more terrible than the certainty that he was about to die was the knowledge that Lord would probably not suffer for it: the murder would go unpunished.

An inquest was held, and after a good deal of testimony about the anonymous notes, the county coroner estimated that the shooting had been done from a distance of 300 yards.

`` Fred was mighty crude about the way he took in cattle '' his own hired man, Andy Ross, mentioned later.

Against all expectation, Carmer was inside, clearly enjoying himself to the hilt and already so tipsy that it seemed unlikely he was bothering to note anything or anyone about him.

`` Gyp Carmer couldn't have known about Colcord's money unless he was told -- and who else would have told him ''??

The valley was only a few hundred yards wide with just about room enough for a properly performed hundred-and-eighty-degree turn.

He was about to make a gas check on his flight when Todman's voice broke in: `` Sweeneys!!

Mrs. Roebuck smilingly declined and began suddenly to go on about her son, who was `` onleh a little younguh than you bawhs ''.

The car was just about to us, its driver's fat, solemn face intent on the road ahead, on business, on a family in Sante Fe -- on anything but an old pick-up truck in which two human beings desperately needed rescue.

`` No, I remembered reading about you in the papers and that you lived here, and when it happened all I could think of was '' -- This time she stopped the rush of words herself.

That was the new advertising angle -- something about a Lloyd's of London policy to insure the secrecy of the secret ingredient.

There was something about the contour of her face, her smile that was like New Orleans sunshine, the way she held her head, the way she walked -- there was scarcely anything she did which did not fascinate me.

Even as she was telling me about it I became aware of a give-away flush that suffused her neck and moved upwards to her cheeks, and subconsciously I realized that when she entered the store she did not switch on the lights.