You’ll want to repeat this three or four times to get the best result.

Perhaps dacryphilia, arousal by tears, is nearer to the mark -- certainly in Mandogi's Ghost this seems possible, not least because the text effects a seamless (unwounded) transition between the living Mandogi and (of course) his ghost.

[…] If this law Of nature be corrupted through affection, And that great minds, of partial indulgence To their benumbed wills, resist the same, There is a law in each well-order’d nation To curb those raging appetites that are Most disobedient and refractory.

The strange situation I am in and the melancholy state of public affairs, […] drag the mind down […] from a philosophical tone or temper, to the drudgery of private and public business.