Gloominess

Objects that fill the mind with gay Ideas, and disperse that Gloominess which is apt to hang upon it in those dark disconsolate Seasons.

Spectator, June 5, 1711 1711

Ideas, and disperse that Gloominess which is apt to hang upon it in those dark disconsolate Seasons.

The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695

In a _Cloudy_, and _VVindy_ day, after a _Moon-shine_ clear Night, for the brightness of the Night (through fear) making them abstain from feeding, and the Gloominess of the Day emboldening and rendering them

The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing Robert Howlett

Dealings just; placable in their Resentments, in their Friendship steady: — They have neither the volatile Airyness of the _Frenchman_, the stated Gravity of the _Spaniard_; the supicious Jealousy of the _Italian_; the forbidding Haughtiness of the _German_; the saturnine Gloominess of the _Flandrican_, nor the sordid Parsimony of the _Dutchman_: In short, they are neither whimsical, splenetic, sullen or capricious: — And, as for

An Essay on the Antient and Modern State of Ireland Henry Brooke

Gloominess, strength, despair form the triune deity that reign over and within it.

Fifty Years in the Gospel Ministry from 1864 to 1914. Twenty-seven Years in the Pastorate; Sixteen Years' Active Service as Chaplain in the U. S. Army; Seven Years Professor in Wilberforce University; Two Trips to Europe; A Trip in Mexico. Theophilus Gould 1866

Gloominess of the Place, and the Use to which it is applied, with the Solemnity of the Building, and the Condition of the People who lye in it, are apt to fill the Mind with a kind of Melancholy, or rather Thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable.

Spectator, March 30, 1711 1711

Anxiety of Absence, the Gloominess of the Roads, and his Resolution of frequenting only those, since those only can carry him to the Object of his Desires; the Dissatisfaction he expresses even at the greatest

The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700

_Westminster_ Abbey; where the Gloominess of the Place, and the Use to which it is applied, with the Solemnity of the Building, and the

The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695

I might likewise observe, that the Gloominess in which sometimes the Minds of the best Men are involved, very often stands in need of such little Incitements to Mirth and Laughter, as are apt to disperse Melancholy, and put our Faculties in good Humour.

The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695

I had, I noted, recently begun keeping a folder marked "Conservative Gloominess."

Encounter Books Roger Kimball 2010