Emotion
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11.Emotion in love and other tender attachments
Pliny the Younger, Letters of PlinyVol. 9
- p. 275Nature forms hearts so that fear of loss kindles affection.read · scan
11a.Love's torment and longing
See also: Love 3d
Euripides, HippolytusVol. 8
- p. 309–310Phaedra's fitful moods and hidden sorrow, restless in her longing.read · scan
- p. 313–315Phaedra's secret pain, hidden wound and refusal to speak wasting her strength.read · scan
Virgil, The AeneidVol. 13
- p. 152Anxious cares, disturbing dreams and a hidden flame trouble the queen's soul.read · scan
- p. 152Tears choke Dido's speech; Anna's words feed the kindled flame.read · scan
- p. 165–167Dido's pangs, grief and pleading through Anna.read · scan
Pliny the Younger, Letters of PlinyVol. 9
- p. 298–299Torments of longing relieved only by toil.read · scan
Stories from the Thousand and One NightsVol. 16
- p. 123–125Lovesickness disturbs his reason, sleep and appetite.read · scan
- p. 152Hope revives the lover; the damsel's pity and pallor show feeling moved by report of his dying for her.read · scan
- p. 156His anguish and anxiety at delay is vividly described, with the soul almost quitting his body.read · scan
Songs from the Elder EddaVol. 49
- p. 361–363Sigrun's grief and longing for her lord's return.read · scan
Traditional BalladsVol. 40
- p. 84–85Her sighing grief at finding herself forgotten by Bicham.read · scan
- p. 86–87Shusy hides tears and resolves to forget him, showing grief at his betrayal.read · scan
Sir Thomas Wyatt, A Supplication; The Lover's AppealVol. 40
- p. 192–193Suffering of scorn, cruelty and painful patience in the lover's plea.read · scan
Miguel de Cervantes, The History of Don Quixote of the Mancha, Part IVol. 14
- p. 87–89Lovers weep through the night and complain to heaven, driven to desperation by her cool triumph.read · scan
- p. 98–101The verses voice torment, sorrow and despite, howling from a bitter bosom.read · scan
- p. 101–102Disdain, jealousy and absence torment the lover, who lives despairing without hope.read · scan
- p. 191–192The letter expresses grief, disdain and thoughts of revenge and death.read · scan
- p. 215Sighs, tears and oppressed heart voice the lover's grief.read · scan
- p. 226–228Grief and tears of the lover are displayed in the verses.read · scan
- p. 228–229Sorrow, sighing and tears fill his solitary days.read · scan
- p. 241–242Lucinda's weeping and Cardenio's foreboding, suspicion and confusion show grief and anxiety at parting.read · scan
- p. 261–262She is confused, pensive and beside herself; waits in vain for his return.read · scan
- p. 501The rejected suitors, grieving, retire to the valley and vent their passions in song and sighs, turning it into a pastoral Arcadia.read · scan
Edmund Spenser, PoemsVol. 40
- p. 246–248Sorrow of hopeless love described.read · scan
Sir Philip Sidney, PoemsVol. 40
- p. 210–211Grief and disdain infect love; dirge mourns ungrateful fancy.read · scan
- p. 213–214Despair and lover's sadness described.read · scan
William Shakespeare, Songs and SonnetsVol. 40
- p. 276–277Grief in absence makes summer seem winter.read · scan
Thomas Dekker, The Shoemaker's HolidayVol. 47
- p. 475–478Rose languishes and sighs in longing and sorrow.read · scan
- p. 505Hammon's yearning and jealousy show love's passion.read · scan
Waly, Waly; Helen of Kirconnell; My Love in Her Attire; Love Not MeVol. 40
- p. 323–324Grief and weariness of life from love's betrayal and loss.read · scan
John Milton, Poems Written During the Civil War and the Protectorate, 1642-1658Vol. 4
- p. 86Grief and longing in the dream that ends as she flees and day brings back his night.read · scan
Love Will Find Out the Way; Phillada Flouts MeVol. 40
- p. 379–381The lover's torment, jealousy and grief at the disdain of his mistress, and wishing death.read · scan
- p. 381–382Lovesick grief: he cannot work or sleep and pines away, fearing he will die.read · scan
John Dryden, All for Love; or, The World Well LostVol. 18
- p. 71Cleopatra's grief at Antony's rejection overwhelms her; she faints on hearing his furious words.read · scan
John Dryden, PoemsVol. 40
- p. 387–388The lover despairs, sighs and languishes at her lack of pity.read · scan
Jean Racine, PhaedraVol. 26
- p. 137–138Oenone describes Phaedra's secret malady and disordered senses, prefiguring her grief.read · scan
- p. 153–154He describes pride humbled, restless longing and loss of former self, no longer enjoying the hunt.read · scan
Lady Grisel Baillie, Werena My Heart Licht I Wad DeeVol. 40
- p. 398–399Grief and lovesickness: the lover wanders sleepless, and she would die but for a light heart.read · scan
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Minna von Barnhelm, or The Soldier's FortuneVol. 26
- p. 314–315Minna's anxiety and sighing over Tellheim's silence.read · scan
- p. 327Tellheim speaks of despair at parting from Minna.read · scan
Anne Hunter, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 581Sadness and sighs of longing in his absence.read · scan
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Tragedy of Faust, Part IVol. 19
- p. 147–150Despair and lovesick anguish in both Faust and Margaret.read · scan
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, EgmontVol. 19
- p. 268–269Clara bursts into tears and both weep; her heart leaps at songs with his name.read · scan
- p. 292–293Clara's tears and pettish reproach when Egmont seems cold.read · scan
- p. 318Clara's passionate despair and Brackenburg's pleas for calm contrast; she reproaches the cowardly citizens who hid in the hour of peril.read · scan
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Hermann and DorotheaVol. 19
- p. 360–362He confesses a heart distracted by hidden, unfulfilled wishes that make life seem fruitless.read · scan
- p. 383–384Hermann's anxiety and sighing show a lover's disquiet while waiting.read · scan
Robert Burns, Poems and SongsVol. 6
- p. 194–196Grief and despair over a lost love and a dear tie cut, with sleepless mourning.read · scan
- p. 196–198Grief, despair and sleepless torment, with life a galling load.read · scan
- p. 293–295Despair, anguish, joy and longing of the lover expressed in the verses.read · scan
- p. 398–399Sorrow and heartbreak of forsaken love, made sharper by the joyful birds and blooming banks.read · scan
- p. 403–405Heart bursting with anguish at possible rejectionread · scan
- p. 415–416Despairing lover pleads and feels rapture at his beloved's presenceread · scan
- p. 428–430Grief, despair and heartbreak at farewell, likened to a tempest shaking the bosom.read · scan
- p. 443–445Tender parting and grief at the loss of Mary.read · scan
- p. 445–446Despair and sleepless distraction of the hopeless lover.read · scan
- p. 453–455Fear, sorrow and despair of abandoned or parted lovers.read · scan
- p. 461–463Anguish, despair and secret languishing of the lover.read · scan
- p. 463–465Care, anguish and despair replace the lover's former carefree mirth.read · scan
- p. 467–469Grief over a faithless woman's perjury; longing and rapture of meeting the beloved.read · scan
- p. 472–474Sorrow and care replace pleasure after the beloved departs.read · scan
- p. 474–476Lover's griefs are immortal and hope cannot comfort him.read · scan
- p. 482–484Jamie's sighs and tears after being scorned.read · scan
- p. 499–501Chloris's lover hides his struggle; the lover lies restless and dreary at night.read · scan
- p. 501–503Sadness and loneliness at separation, joy at the beloved's return.read · scan
- p. 507–509Secret anguish, aching heart, despair and pain at nature's beauty because the beloved is away.read · scan
- p. 509–511Laments of grief and longing for an absent lover; sorrow makes winter and autumn's decay welcome.read · scan
- p. 511–514Sorrow and care make spring's beauty yield nothing to the weary lover.read · scan
- p. 516–518Lover's care and pine from a cold heart, and joy lost through love.read · scan
- p. 530–532Hapless lover's grief, care and despair, fearing his beloved's suffering.read · scan
- p. 534–536Forlorn grief and hope in separation; a wintry sky blasts each bud of hope and joy.read · scan
- p. 538–540Love brings sorrow and despair, drying the lover's careless life like a scorched stream.read · scan
William Wordsworth, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 668–670A lover's wayward fear that Lucy might be dead shows strange fits of passion.read · scan
Sir Walter Scott, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 742–744Grief, longing and heartbreak are dramatized in the waiting maid's pining and the lover's absence.read · scan
- p. 744–747The heedless lover passes; Mary's heart is broken with a feeble moan.read · scan
John Keats, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 886–887Angela's fear and Porphyro's tears and passion drive the scene.read · scan
- p. 890–891Madeline weeps and moans over the loss of dream bliss.read · scan
- p. 893–895The knight is haggard with woe and anguish.read · scan
Hartley Coleridge, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 912Constant devotion despite rejection.read · scan
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 928–929Her calm sad face conceals sorrow; she sees beyond love to its end and oblivion.read · scan
- p. 931–932Doubt's pain and longing for reassurance: she begs to hear 'thou lovest' again.read · scan
- p. 936–937Grief is 'love and grief beside'; she fears a love set between sorrow and sorrow.read · scan
- p. 938Doubt and dread distort her image of him; gratitude overflows.read · scan
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1323–1324Evangeline's heart filled with sweetness and love, hearts throbbing as they enter the Teche.read · scan
- p. 1330Love mingled with a secret sense of pain and indefinite terror, feeling she pursues a phantom.read · scan
- p. 1330–1333Evangeline's soul is sad and afflicted at news that Gabriel has gone north.read · scan
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1017–1018Spleen, unrest and obsessive longing drive him from bed into the wintry garden.read · scan
- p. 1033–1034His clamorous heart and blood run full, then he is shaken by her absence.read · scan
William Makepeace Thackeray, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1058–1059Griefs, joys and longing passion unfulfilled recur through life.read · scan
Arthur Hugh Clough, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1119–1121Heart bidden be still and wait; estrangement of souls.read · scan
William Morris, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1185–1187Passion, dizziness and creeping despair are traced across the year.read · scan
11b.Passion in lovers overturning reason
See also: Madness 5a · Love 2c
Aeschylus, The Libation-BearersVol. 8
- p. 100–101Chorus dwells on terrors of nature but finds fiercer the passion in man's soul and woman's lust that wrecks marriage.read · scan
Euripides, HippolytusVol. 8
- p. 311–313Phaedra's feverish, longing ravings, then shame on recovering; she wishes for death to escape her thoughts.read · scan
Virgil, The AeneidVol. 13
- p. 152Dido's distracted, raving pain and neglect of the city's works show passion overriding duty.read · scan
- p. 152She is frantic with fear and grief, likened to a raving Bacchante.read · scan
- p. 167Despair, rage and love divide Dido's heart while all nature sleeps; she deliberates furiously.read · scan
- p. 178Aeneas divines Dido's fate, knowing how women's passions can be deadly for injured love.read · scan
Stories from the Thousand and One NightsVol. 16
- p. 150Passion described as fire shot into the heart, leaving him distracted and absorbed.read · scan
- p. 365His strength fails, thoughts distract and sight bewilders at the sight of her.read · scan
Miguel de Cervantes, The History of Don Quixote of the Mancha, Part IVol. 14
- p. 211–213Orlando's grief turns to destructive frenzy, while Amadis expresses his through laments.read · scan
- p. 226Orlando's rage and Amadis's melancholy are contrasted as passions of love.read · scan
- p. 248Cardenio curses Lucinda and Fernando in the night, yet excuses her, torn between anger and love.read · scan
- p. 501–503The suitors are frantic with jealousy, disdain and hopeless love, blaming yet adoring Leandra; the woods echo her name.read · scan
William Shakespeare, Songs and SonnetsVol. 40
- p. 262–264Fancy, or passing infatuation, is engendered in the eyes, fed by gazing, and dies in its cradle.read · scan
William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of DenmarkVol. 46
- p. 120–123Ophelia's fright at Hamlet's disordered appearance; Polonius diagnoses the ecstasy of love whose violent passion leads the will to desperate acts.read · scan
Ben Jonson, PoemsVol. 40
- p. 293–294Passions rebel and invade the mind, overturning reason.read · scan
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Philaster, or Love Lies A-BleedingVol. 47
- p. 721–723Philaster acts in a distraught passion, wounds her, and is himself hurt.read · scan
Thomas Carew, PoemsVol. 40
- p. 351–352Lover prefers the storm of extreme love or hate to a calm estate.read · scan
John Milton, Paradise LostVol. 4
- p. 249Adam feels commotion strange and passion first felt, unlike calm enjoyment of other things.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, Minor WorksVol. 48
- p. 419–420A tempestuous life of action suits passionate souls; violent love requires an inundation of passion.read · scan
John Dryden, Dedication of the AeneisVol. 13
- p. 32Dido's progress from warmth to jealousy, rage, despair and suicide.read · scan
John Dryden, All for Love; or, The World Well LostVol. 18
- p. 88Cleopatra rages and despairs, doting on Antony, wishing to die; her soul struggles with agonies of love and rage.read · scan
Jean Racine, PhaedraVol. 26
- p. 138–140Phaedra's despair, shame and confused longing, swinging between wishes, show a mind overwhelmed by hidden passion.read · scan
- p. 157–158Phaedra admits madness and cannot hide her passion.read · scan
Edgar Allan Poe, The Poetic PrincipleVol. 28
- p. 373–374The quoted serenade dramatizes swooning, ecstatic passion of the lover.read · scan
11c.Shame, blushing and bashfulness
Homer, The OdysseyVol. 22
- p. 96–97Fear and shame restrain Odysseus; he notes mankind is a jealous race.read · scan
- p. 242–243Odysseus's fear and shame before the wooers; Penelope's long sorrow.read · scan
The Book of JobVol. 44
- p. 115–117Job voices anguish and shame at abuse by the rabble.read · scan
Euripides, HippolytusVol. 8
- p. 315–317Phaedra's silent grief and shame, and the Nurse's anguished pleading, dramatize hidden suffering.read · scan
Virgil, The AeneidVol. 13
- p. 389Grief, tears, blushes, jealous rage and desire move Amata, Lavinia and Turnus.read · scan
Plutarch, CiceroVol. 12
- p. 243–244Senators tear their clothes; Pompey feels shame at deserting his friend.read · scan
Dante Alighieri, HellVol. 20
- p. 13Shame and fear silence Dante; damned spirits weep and gnash their teeth.read · scan
- p. 126Dante's poignant shame at being caught listening to the quarrel, compared to a dreamer wishing his harm a dream.read · scan
Dante Alighieri, PurgatoryVol. 20
- p. 271Fear and confusion choke his voice into a scarcely audible yes.read · scan
Miguel de Cervantes, The History of Don Quixote of the Mancha, Part IVol. 14
- p. 267Shame, blushing, sorrow and the listeners' pity and admiration for her misfortunes.read · scan
Sir Thomas Browne, Religio MediciVol. 3
- p. 291–292Shame, modesty and bashfulness color his attitude to death.read · scan
John Milton, Samson AgonistesVol. 4
- p. 415Shame makes him unable to look up; blindness afflicts least.read · scan
John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's ProgressVol. 15
- p. 24–25Christian blushes with shame and stands speechless before Evangelist.read · scan
- p. 75–76Shame is depicted as bold and hard to shake off, making him blush.read · scan
John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning EducationVol. 37
- p. 39Shame and pleasure in praise are the feelings through which children are governed.read · scan
Jean Racine, PhaedraVol. 26
- p. 133–134Hippolytus is racked by anguish and shame; Phaedra sickens of an unspoken malady.read · scan
- p. 135Shame and pride conflict with newly felt passion in Hippolytus.read · scan
- p. 160–161Shame, horror and confusion overwhelm both Phaedra and Hippolytus.read · scan
Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to ConquerVol. 18
- p. 217–218Marlow's painful shyness before modest women contrasts with his ease with barmaids, showing fear and timidity.read · scan
- p. 219Marlow's shame and awkwardness and Hastings's suppressed feeling.read · scan
- p. 224–225Marlow is mortified and embarrassed at meeting the ladies.read · scan
- p. 225–227Marlow's terror and stammering before Miss Hardcastle, screwing up courage to meet her.read · scan
- p. 255–257Marlow, distracted by a variety of passions, begs forgiveness for his hasty temper.read · scan
Oliver Goldsmith, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 505Melancholy and shame of the betrayed woman.read · scan
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Tragedy of Faust, Part IVol. 19
- p. 116–118Faust's shame, thrilling pulse and shifting passion show inner conflict at wronging her.read · scan
- p. 137–140Margaret's confusion, anger at herself, trembling and fond joy at declared love.read · scan
- p. 140–142Margaret's shy abashment and delight contrast with Faust's exalted contemplative joy.read · scan
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Hermann and DorotheaVol. 19
- p. 350–352Hermann recounts humiliation, shame and vexation at being laughed at by the neighbor's daughters.read · scan
- p. 352–353Hermann's shame and mortification remain deeply stamped; father's anger.read · scan
- p. 358–360Hermann is caught in tears and hastily wipes them away in confusion.read · scan
- p. 403Dorothea, stung by the father's supposed mockery, blushes and controls her pain while answering with dignity.read · scan
- p. 404–406She feels shame, confusion and anguish, yet is ready to face storm rather than stay.read · scan
Alessandro Manzoni, I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed)Vol. 21
- p. 36–37Lucia's terror, distress and blushes on hearing Don Rodrigo's name.read · scan
- p. 41Renzo's agitation and bashfulness before a learned gentleman, restored by the sight of the capons.read · scan
- p. 394–395Lucia's horror, tears and shame as she retells events and hides her vow.read · scan
- p. 396–397Lucia and Agnese are mute with surprise and bashfulness, then revived by his kindness.read · scan
- p. 408–409Shame, fear and tears keep Lucia silent toward her mother; Don Abbondio is relieved.read · scan
- p. 441–442Shame, sorrow and indignation overcome Lucia to tears.read · scan
- p. 589Renzo's deep shame and emotion on seeing his enemy.read · scan
John Keats, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 887–888Angela's frightened haste and Madeline's speechless, heart-stifled agitation.read · scan
Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the BeagleVol. 29
- p. 33Darwin recalls his surprise, disgust and shame at the slave's fearful, degraded reaction.read · scan
Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Two Years Before the MastVol. 23
- p. 269Fright, despair and wounded pride afflict the boy at being made to serve among social inferiors.read · scan
James Russell Lowell, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1376–1378Blushing, pounding hearts and pale-then-smiling confusion dramatize the lovers' embarrassment and joy.read · scan
William Morris, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1183–1185Shame, tears and burning cheek show her passion while she speaks.read · scan
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