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In a subsequent passage, Mr. Burton traces the persistence of melancholy to the fall of Eden.
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Samuel Johnson, another great chatterbox of English literature, opened "The Anatomy of Melancholy" and easily embraced Mr. Burton's loquacious manner.
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Not long after embarking upon the subject of God and melancholy, for example, Mr. Burton veers into "A Digression of the Nature of Spirits, Bad Angels, or Devils, " which leads into an elaborate taxonomy of evil creatures, including the question of whether some devils "have excrements" or "feel pain if they are hurt, " and whether there can be both good and bad devils.
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One likely reason for the book's staying power is that melancholy was merely a springboard for whatever else struck Mr. Burton's fancy.
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This wry and melancholy attitude persisted through 21 more graphic novels (Mr Eisner's phrase caught on) and coloured those of many of his successors, too.
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" An astute observer of academia, Mr. Burton identifies scholars as a high-risk group for melancholy because they're so often "exposed to want, poverty and beggary.
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You do not have to be around Mr Fischer long to realise that behind the quirky wit lurks a melancholy, even tortured, personality typical of many leftist intellectuals in post-Hitler Germany.
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Mr. ALBARN: (Singing) The estuary Sundays lost in melancholy.
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Mr Thach became an increasingly prominent negotiator with the West during the country's subsequent melancholy history: its division into the Communist North and the American-backed South and its unification in 1976 after the Americans pulled out.
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