"Atrabiliar" Quotes from Famous Books
... "Often in my atrabiliar moods, when I read of pompous ceremonials, Frankfort Coronations, Royal Drawing-rooms, Levees, Couchees; and how the ushers and macers and pursuivants are all in waiting; how Duke this is presented by Archduke that, and Colonel A by General B, and innumerable Bishops, Admirals, and ... — Sartor Resartus - The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh • Thomas Carlyle |