"Melancholic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... us but was in a melancholic, dismal and dire mood; and on the 13th December Lamburn, the engineer, stabbed Cartwright, the old ...
— The Purple Cloud • M.P. Shiel
... fragment of ruin suggesting the magnificence of a former epoch; everywhere, moreover, a Cross,—and nastiness at the foot of it. As the sum of all, there are recollections that kindle the soul, and a gloom and languor that depress it beyond any depth of melancholic sentiment ...
— The Marble Faun, Volume I. - The Romance of Monte Beni • Nathaniel Hawthorne |
