 | 1898 - 712 pągines
...JOHNSON'S Two BOOKS.—Dr. Johnson is reported to have said of the ' Anatomy of Melancholy ' that " it was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise " (Boswell, 1867, p. 157) ; and of ' Robinson Crusoe ' that " nobody ever laid it down without wishing... | |
 | 430 pągines
...life-philosophy, sung according to ability." ELIZA COOK'S JOURNAL. did he make it. Johnson declared that it was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise ; and Coleridge declared it to be one of the most charming hooks iu the language. Burton was another... | |
 | 1872 - 676 pągines
...It is also reported that he declared Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy to have been the only book which ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise. Putting these two things together, it is interesting to observe that something very like the famous... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1850 - 728 pągines
...Archbishop Herring's Leiters, I'-mo. 1777. p. 149. "Вгнтот'в AHATOMY or MELANCHOLY, he (Dr. Johnson) on and variance, and scarce any conveyance so accurately penned by one, which another will not — Buswcll'i Life of Johnson, vol. i. p. 580. 8vo. edit. '• BI*HTON'S ANATOMT or MELANCHOLY is a... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1850 - 674 pągines
...him."—Archbishop Herring's Letters, 12mo. 1777. p. 149. " BURTON'S ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY, he (Dr. Johnson) said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise."—BosweWs Life of Johnson, vol. i. p. 580. 8vo. edit. " BURTON'S ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY is a... | |
 | Views, Late Medical Superintendent of an Asylum for the Insane - 1850 - 224 pągines
...himself. — BosweWs Life of Johnson. The author of the Rambler declared, on another occasion, that this ' was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hoars sooner than he wished to rise.' We make particular mention of this as a ground of encouragement... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 326 pągines
...history proceeded not from imbecility, but from foppery. " He loved, he said, the old black-letter books; they were rich in matter, though their style was inelegant;...of antiquity. " Burton's ' Anatomy of Melancholy,' 2 he said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.... | |
 | 1851 - 594 pągines
...'poi><i hit l>'j Pmek. Sleep (not) at Will. JOHNSON says of BURTON'S Anatomy of Melancholy, that it is the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise. How voluminous would be the catalogue of books that might liave sent the lexicographer to sleep two... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 pągines
...that the publisher realized a fortune by it ; and it delighted Dr. Johnson so much, that he said ' it was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours before he wished to rise.' Prefixed to the Anatomy of Melancholy, is a poem from which Milton borrowed... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 pągines
...valuable repository of amusement and information.' It delighted Юг Johnson so much, that he said this ' was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than r<p wished to rise.' Its reputation was considerably extended by the publication of ' Illustrations... | |
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Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, he said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise. 
