10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ATRABILIOUSNESS»
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atrabiliousness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
atrabiliousness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
—Patrick O'Brian, The Wine-Dark Sea, 1994. atrabiliary. (at-rah-BIL-ee-ah-ree)
adjective. atrabiliousness. (at-rah-BIL-yes-ness) noun babylonian (bab-ah-LOH-
nee-an) adjective 1. pertaining to Babylon or Babylonia. 2. THE BEST WORDS |
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Robert Hartwell Fiske, 2011
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The Memoirs of Victor Hugo
"'What do you mean, Pétion?' retorted Robespierre. "'Mean,' said Pétion, 'why,
that you must get married. I insist upon marrying you. You are full of sourness,
hypochondria, gall, bad humour, biliousness and atrabiliousness I am fearful of
all ...
3
The Art Of Criticism: As Exemplified In Dr. Johnson's Lives ...
Of his works; though they have little of originality, and his style has a certain
atrabiliousness, and his tissue of paragraphs an unpleasing quaintness, it must
be confessed -that his Dictionary, Rambler, and the two imitative translations of ...
4
A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France ...
It is not always agreeable for an Author to have his Works reflected through the
medium of a translation; especially where the Translator suffers a portion,
however small, of his own atrabiliousness, to be mixed up with the work
translated: nor is ...
5
Victorian Celebrity Culture and Tennyson's Circle
The text is 'suffused with decorous domesticity', which, Altick has argued, is due
to its rigorous omission of the 'idiosyncrasies that made [Tennyson] the engaging
and often formidable character he was – his vanity, his atrabiliousness [and] his ...
Charlotte Boyce, Páraic Finnerty, Anne-Marie Millim, 2013
6
THE JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE AND MENTAL PATHOLOGY
Atrabiliousness played a prominent part in the ancient theories concerning
mental aberration, and the word melancholy still belongs to science. This
observation is singular ; it will serve to explain the ancient saying, " There is no
man so great ...
Forbes Winslow , M.D., D.C.L. Oxon, 1859
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The Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology
Atrabiliousness played a prominent part in the ancient theories concerning
mental aberration, and the word melancholy still belongs to science. This
observation is singular; it will serve to explain the ancient saying, "There is no
man so great ...
8
Samuel Johnson: The Critical Heritage
... have little of originality, and his style has a certain atrabiliousness, and his
tissue of paragraphs an unpleasing quaintness, it must be confessed that his
Dictionary, Rambler, and the two imitative translations of Juvenal, &c. are very
excellent; ...
Director of the Institute for Advanced Research in the Humanities James T Boulton, James T. Boulton, 2002
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Delphi Complete Works of Bret Harte (Illustrated):
... eyes andthin handsome lips something ofthe bitterness and antagonism ofthe
typical “Southern rights”woman; norof her two daughters, Octavia and Augusta,
whoselanguid atrabiliousness seemedapart of the mourningthey stillwore.
10
Setting the World Ablaze : Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and ...
... in “an ecstatic meeting” in an afterlife, an ethereal reconciliation with those “we
have loved and lost and whom we shall still love and never lose again.”10
However, declining health alone cannot account for the atrabiliousness that often
...
John Ferling Professor of History State University of West Georgia, 2000
