10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MOPISHNESS»
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mopishness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Gertrude Cameron, by mrs. Mackenzie Daniels
If there was a cloud upon her brow, she ascribed it to " Sidney's mopishness,"
which she declared gave her the horrors, and rendered their home miserable. "
Are you sure," I said to her one day, "that there is no cause for this mopishness
you ...
2
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry
In Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia, for example, the very name of the rustic
shepherdess Mopsa suggests her dull mopishness. 32 Coeffeteau, 'Of the
diuerse Passions of men, according to their ages and conditions' in A Table of
Humane Passions.
3
Vanities of the Eye: Vision in Early Modern European Culture
70. Spenser, Faerie Queene, bk. 2, canto ix, 50–2, in Poetical Works, i. 284–5. 71
. MacDonald, Mystical Bedlam, 120, 150, 150–60, 170; cf. 162 for disturbance of
the senses as the 'characteristic psychological evidence' of mopishness.
4
Dictionnary of the English Language with Numerous ...
The recesses of the cloyster ! the seats of mopishness, superstition, and bigotry.
Coventry, Phil, to Hyd. Conv. 2, He became very melancholy, and at length fell
into a kind of mopishness of fatuity. Hist. R. S. iv. 501 Mo'ppet. 7 n. s. [perhaps
from ...
5
Distracted Subjects: Madness and Gender in Shakespeare and ...
... melancholy, 49, 81-82, 86; menopausal melancholy, 49, 80-81, 82; Mildmay on
, 72-73; religious melancholy, 4; theory of, 69, 70. See also Deluded
melancholics; Male melancholy; Mopishness; Women's melancholy Menaechm1
...
6
Loyola: and Jesuitism in its rudiments
The pallid spiritualism of the ascetics, with its vapid anilities, its meagre results, its
ghost-like movings to and fro to no purpose, its mopishness, its shyness, its
egotism and its self-seeking, were not qualities that could engage more than a ...
7
A Dictionary in English and Bengalee; Translated from Todd's ...
উদাস. অচে তন. জড়. কুড়ে. অলস. মসৃণ | * Mopishness. জো-মানতা. অবসম্নতা. ঔদাস্য. আলস্য.
নিন্তেজে| রস্থা . দৌবর্ষল্য. দুবর্বলতা. শক্তিহাঁনডা. জড়তা | ম্মে০শো৪ট্ট বা
মো০ক্ষেঅ্যা. "- s- পুত্তলিকা. পুতলা. যেহ্বাত্তক্য বালি কার নাম I Mopus, n. ৪.
নিন্ধর্মা .
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One hundred and ninety sermons on the Hundred and Nineteenth ...
Then there are some that scoff at the mourners in Zion ; they count it melancholy
and mopishness to be so often and seriously humbling themselves before the
Lord. The world deals perversely with the people of God ; they provoke their
sorrow ...
Mopishness was a more plebeian disorder, 'the social antithesis of melancholy.
The dumpish moods of idle gentlefolk frequently earned the classic appellation:
the sullen inactivity of husbandmen and artisans merited more often the rude and
...
Nothing recommends godliness more, or is more necessary to counteract the
prejudice so commonly and injuriously entertained against it, as the mother and
nurse of mopishness and melancholy. We would not wish you to be hypocrites, ...
Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Josiah Conder, 1817
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MOPISHNESS»
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How 18th-century gardeners ordered their plants after a great storm …
... grew exotic plants in some of the earliest hothouses and made an impressive Florilegium and Herbarium as an antidote to her 'mopishness', ... «Spectator.co.uk, May 15»
A Natural History of English Gardening by Mark Laird review – a …
Prone to depression – or “mopishness” as it was called – the duchess coped with her melancholy by gardening and she was fanatical about ... «The Guardian, May 15»
“The Stand” Will Be R-Rated and 3-Hours Long!
If you're gonna disagree, at least do it with some integrity and points and not uncontrolled mopishness. randallstarr. i didn't even read that shit ... «Bloody Disgusting, Jun 14»
