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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... melancholy is slower to do harm and of less intrinsic badness . It is chol- eric melancholy that is worse and speedier in causing cor- ruption . But it is more susceptible of a cure than the former.1 Thus , apart from the natural melancholy ...
... melancholy is slower to do harm and of less intrinsic badness . It is chol- eric melancholy that is worse and speedier in causing cor- ruption . But it is more susceptible of a cure than the former.1 Thus , apart from the natural melancholy ...
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... melancholy from that of others , certainly marks him off as a posturer , but need not rule out the likelihood that he is , nonetheless , a genuine melancholic who is sad , as he says , because of the melancholic hu- mour that is , in ...
... melancholy from that of others , certainly marks him off as a posturer , but need not rule out the likelihood that he is , nonetheless , a genuine melancholic who is sad , as he says , because of the melancholic hu- mour that is , in ...
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... melancholy explains his failure to act , and yet he must conclude that " this melancholy is some- thing very different from insanity " ( 103 ) . Even the ex- perts have trouble deciding where sadness and mopish- ness leave off and the ...
... melancholy explains his failure to act , and yet he must conclude that " this melancholy is some- thing very different from insanity " ( 103 ) . Even the ex- perts have trouble deciding where sadness and mopish- ness leave off and the ...
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FOUR As You Like | 90 |
Notes | 153 |
Bibliography | 169 |
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