 he composed this book .with a view of relieving his own melancholy, but increased it to such a degree, that nothing could make him laugh but going to the bridge foot and hearing the ribaldry of the bargemen, which rarely failed to throw him into a violent...  The Study of Medicine - Pàgina 90per John Mason Good - 1825Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | William Davis (bibliographer.) - 1814 - 126 pàgines
...the fashion in th« University, made his company the more acceptable," Burton, composed the Anatomy with a view of relieving his own melancholy : but...that nothing could make him laugh but going to the Bridge foot, and hearing the ribaldry of the bargemen, which rarely failed to throw him into a violent... | |
 | John Platts - 1826
...adopted from the infirmities of his own habit and constitution. Mr. Granger says " he composed this book .with a view of relieving his own melancholy, but...that nothing could make him laugh but going to the bridge foot and hearing the ribaldry of the bargemen, which rarely failed to throw him into a violent... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1833
...ridiculous objects which there he saw.'* A most * ' Burton,' says Mr. Grainger, ' wrote his Anatomie with a view of relieving his own melancholy, but increased...to such a degree, that nothing could make him laugh A most urgent letter was despatched to Hippocrates in the name of the senate and people of Abdera,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1833
...ridiculous objects which there he saw.'* A most * ' Button,' says Mr. Grainger, ' wrote his Anatomie with a view of relieving his own melancholy, but increased...to such a degree, that nothing could make him laugh A most urgent letter was despatched to Hippocrates in tho name of the senate and people of Abdera,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1833
...ridiculous objects which there he saw.'* A most * ' Button,' says Mr. Grainger, ' wrote his Anatomie with a view of relieving his own melancholy, but increased it to such a degree, that nothing could make him A most urgent letter was despatched to Hippocrates in the name of the senate and people of Abdera,... | |
 | 1833
...ridiculous objects which there he saw.'* A most * ' Burton,' says Mr. Grainger, 'wrote his Anatomie with a view of relieving his own melancholy, but increased it to such a degree, that nothing could make him A most urgent letter was despatched to Hippocrates in the name of the senate and people of Abdera,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848
...all the fashion in the university, made his company the more acceptable.' Burton composed The Anatomy with a view of relieving his own melancholy; but increased...that nothing could make him laugh but going to the Rridgefoot, and hearing the ribaldry of the bargemen, which rarely failed to throw him into a violent... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1858
...through a slip about his neck.' This Democritus Junior, alias Robert Burton, composed a book, ' with the view of relieving his own melancholy, but increased it to such a degree-, that nothing could make hint laugh, but going to the bridge foot and hearing the ribaldry of the bargemen, which rarely failed... | |
 | Richard Halkett - 1883
...from the infirmities of his own habit and constitution. Mr. (¡ranger says, "He composed this book with a view of relieving his own melancholy, but increased...that nothing could make him laugh, but going to the foot bridge and hearing the ribalry of the barge-men, which rarely failed to throw him into a violent... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897
...imagine otherwise. Yet was he of a melancholy disposition, and it is said that "he composed this book with a view of relieving his own melancholy, but increased...that nothing could make him laugh but going to the foot-bridge and hearing the ribaldry of the bargemen. ROBERT BURTON which rarely failed to throw him... | |
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