The Melancholy Muse: Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Early MedicineDuquesne University Press, 1995 - 185 Seiten Melancholy is so much part of human experience that it is no surprise that, in its clinical dimension, it has been written about by physicians for hundreds of years, from antiquity into the 20th century. |
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... fear or despond- ency . They find fault with life and hate people ; but not all want to die . For some the fear of death is of principal concern during melancholy . Others again will appear to you quite bizarre because they dread death ...
... fear or despond- ency . They find fault with life and hate people ; but not all want to die . For some the fear of death is of principal concern during melancholy . Others again will appear to you quite bizarre because they dread death ...
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... fear or sadness . And uni- versally for all who suffer from foolishness the black signs are memory , fear , and bad judgment . Some of those to whom this happens fear death , and some long for it . Some laugh increasingly , some cry ...
... fear or sadness . And uni- versally for all who suffer from foolishness the black signs are memory , fear , and bad judgment . Some of those to whom this happens fear death , and some long for it . Some laugh increasingly , some cry ...
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... fear and sorrow is to be human , and no poet has understood more or told us bet- ter what it is to be human . Shakespeare has even told us indirectly through one of his characters that he under- stood the extremes of sorrow and fear ...
... fear and sorrow is to be human , and no poet has understood more or told us bet- ter what it is to be human . Shakespeare has even told us indirectly through one of his characters that he under- stood the extremes of sorrow and fear ...
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