Melancholy As It Proceeds From the Disposition And Habit the Passion of Love
Melancholy As It Proceeds From the Disposition And Habit the Passion of Love
Democritus Junior
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155 by his youngeft brother, Henry the Flrft^ pined 3. Way in unextinguifhable grief and gloomy melancholy. The royal captive, Jugurtha^ whofe courage in the field was unequalled, had pot fortitude fufficient to endure the flavifh tri- umph in which he was drawn through the capi- tol, at the wheels of the chariot of his infulting conqueror Marius^ but died in melancholy and defpair at the end of the fixth day of his captivity. The Bijhop of Salijbury^ in the reign of King Stephen^ was fo tainte...d by the idea of imprifon- ment, and the calamities which attend it, that he refufed all nourifhment, and lingered a long time between the fear of death and the torments of life, unwilling to live, but unable to die. A Lacedemonian boy, who was taken prifoner by Antigonus, was fold as a flave ; but on being or- dered by his imperious purchafer to fome painful dufy, replied, " fhall a Lacedemonian be a flave where liberty is within his reach ?" and imme- diately threw himfelf from the point of an adja- cent rock, and plunged into the fea.
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