Lexicographical Neighbors of Lachrymosity
Literary usage of Lachrymosity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James (1902)
"They would have despised a life set wholly in a minor key, and summoned it to
keep within the proper bounds of lachrymosity. The discovery that the enduring ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1854)
"She paused for Mrs. SLED'S mind to comprehend the whole force of the remark con •
cerning IKE'S lachrymosity. "And he's the most considerable boy, ..."
3. Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Cosmopolitan Spirit in Literature: A Study of by Joseph Texte (1899)
"... for the " vague lachrymosity " of Hervey, Ossian, and Rousseau. To Richardson
must be accorded the most important place in the history of "melancholy. ..."
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