Tristness

Beneath the snowy turban, which adorns her head, what pathos seems to dress her brows; what silent, yet what speaking, tristness, highly touched!

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Notwithstanding the tristness of the town, there are many visitors during the Summer who come for quiet and economy.

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He who has lashed, with such biting keenness, the poets and the critics of his day; and laughed to scorn, alike the metaphysical poetics of an “In Memoriam,” the morbid tristness of “A Life-drama,” the transcendental theosophy of a “Festus,” and all the vagaries of a Carlyle, a Ruskin, or a Gilfillan: must be assumed to offer something which he, at least, believes to approach more nearly the true requisites of poetic perfection.

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Kate was delighted with this proposal, and the business of packing and preparing seemed to dispel much of the tristness which had possessed her of late, and Wycherly was happy again.

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