10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LORNNESS»
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lornness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
lornness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Arktouros: Hellenic Studies presented to Bernard M. W. Knox ...
Her wasted lornness is intenser than Penelope's; she lacks even a beggar's
company and is wholly alone. Yet the moment harks back. In the epics Athene
sweeps from Olympus with divine aid; she and Hera descend between sky and
earth in ...
Glen W. Bowersock, Walter Burkert, Michael Putnam, 1979
2
Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries: With ...
The beautiful vegetation immediately about it, added to the bare hills in the
background, completes this look of for- lornness, and produces an effect like that
of the grass growing in the streets . of a metropolis. The harbour is landlocked
with ...
things knelt together hand in hand in the lornness of their approaching desolation
, neither of them having dared to utter the foreboding upon their hearts, but
feeling it all the more surely ; and while the sister's spirit longed fervently after him
...
Charlotte Mary Yonge, 1870
4
Godlust: Facing the Demonic, Embracing the Divine
Granted, as deiform beings all of us necessarily oscillate between moments of
connected desire and separated for- lornness. Christian tradition has always
recognized the inevitability of periodic dark nights of the soul, and the troughs all
of us ...
5
The Philadelphia Book: Or, Specimens of Metropolitan Literature
Some were on foot, bearing in their countenances the tokens of their recent terror
, and filled with mournful reflections on the for- lornness of their state. Few had
secured to themeslves an asylum ; some were without the means of paying for ...
Peter Stephen Du Ponceau, 1836
6
A Tale of Two Cities - Literary Touchstone Edition
Whenever the leader made this rattle, the passenger started, as a nervous
passenger might, and was disturbed in mind. There was a steaming mist in all the
hollows, and it had roamed in its for- lornness up the hill, like an evil spirit,
seeking ...
7
Face to Face: Toward a Sociological Theory of Interpersonal ...
When greater amounts of sadness are activated with lesser levels of fear, for-
lornness and misery alert others to problems, whereas emotions like regret and
remorseful can signal apologies to others for transgressions. Disappointment
with ...
8
Records of real life in the palace and the cottage, revised ...
... the largest in Europe, the most marvellous spectacle that nature presents in
Switzerland, I turned away to reflect for a moment on my for- lornness, — a
stranger far distant from her native isles ; one short step betwixt her and the
profound gulf ...
Harriet Henriette Pigott, John Galt, 1839
... lornness about it, a sadness, that seeped into his pores. The feeling of
aloneness was so visceral it permeated his soul. Yet despite the tragedy she'd
endured—and only a tragedy could have induced the kind of scene he'd just
witnessed ...
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LORD BYRON AND SOME OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES: WITH ...
The beautiful vegetation immediately about it, added to the bare hills in the
background, completes this look of for- lornness, and produces an effect like that
of the grass growing in the streets of a metropolis. The harbour is landlocked with
hills ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LORNNESS»
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For Molière Festival, meet The Misanthrope at Court
This first offering of the two-production Molière Festival gives us cattiness, love-lornness, gossip, and backstabbing worthy of any Gossip Girl ... «The Chicago Maroon, May 13»
