Melancholy

"Melancholy sees the worst of things,—things as they may be, and not as they are. It looks upon a beautiful face, and sees but a grinning skull."

"All my griefs to this are jolly, Naught so damnd as melancholy."

"As melancholy as an unbraced drum."

"Most musical, most melancholy" bird! A melancholy bird! Oh! idle thought! In nature there is nothing melancholy. But some night-wandering man, whose heart was pierced With the remembrance of a grievous wrong, Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch! filled all things with himself, And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his own sorrow) he, and such as he, First named these notes a melancholy strain."

"Melancholy Is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the minds disease."

"Theres not a string attuned to mirth But has its chord in melancholy."

"Employment, sir, and hardships, prevent melancholy."

"Moping melancholy, And moon-struck madness."

"I can suck melancholy out of a song."

"O melancholy! Who ever yet could sound thy bottom? find The ooze, to show what coast thy sluggish crare Might easiliest harbour in?"

"The greatest note of it is his melancholy."

"And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy."