3. Mal du siècle (Hugo’s Hernani, 1830).
4. Pessimism (vogue of Schopenhauer and Stendhal, 1865).
5. Neurasthenia (culmination of fin de siècle movement, 1900).
[228] Eckermann, September 24, 1827.
[229] See La Nuit de Mai.
[230] These lines are inscribed on the statue of Musset in front of the Théâtre Français. Cf. Shelley:
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
[231] Translation by J. E. Sandys of fragment cited in Stobæus, Flor. CIX, I.
[232] Pythian Odes, III, 20 ff.
[233] Pythian Odes, III, 81-82.