 | William Keddie - 1854 - 400 pàgines
...the widow was intended to have something superinduced upon it; but the superstructure did not come." Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, he said, was the only...out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise. Goldsmith, to divert the tedious minutes, while waiting for one of the guests at a dinner-party, strutted... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1857 - 690 pàgines
...Archbishop Herring's Letters, 12mo. 177T. p. U9. "BrBTon's A* ATOMY or MELA-NI IMI.T. he (Dr. Johnson) said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hour* sooner than he wished to rise.' — Boiwttti Life of Johnson, voL i. p. 560. 8vo. edit. -Bra-roVs... | |
 | William Thomas Lowndes - 1858 - 338 pàgines
...forgotten, but which owed its revival to the inordinate praise of Dr. Johnson, whoobserved that it 'was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.' From this storehouse of learning, intermingled with quaint observations aud witty illustrations, many... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1858 - 798 pàgines
...the wits of the reigns "' Anne and the first George were deeply indebted to it. Dr. Johnson said it was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours aocer ttian he wished to rise. Warton, Ferrie, and Steevens strongly eulogized it. Byron --:_ it "is... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1859 - 796 pàgines
...the wits of the reigns of Anne and the first George were deeply indebted to it. Dr. Johnson said it was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise. Warton, Ferrier, and Steevens strongly enlogized it. Byron said, it "is the most amusing and instructive... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 pàgines
...of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.' " He loved, he said, the old black-letter books ; ub,' 3 " He frequently eihorted me to set about wtiting a History of Ireland ; and archly remarked, there... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1862 - 880 pàgines
...the 8th edition (1676), the book seems to have fallen into neglect, till Dr Johnson's remark, that it was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise, again directed attention to it. Dr Ferrier has shewn that Sterne was largely indebted to it, and other... | |
 | Bernard Cracroft - 1868 - 348 pàgines
...a grace which must have seemed ravishing to the big Sesquipedalian. No wonder the Doctor said " it was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise." He himself thought it overloaded with quotation, and no doubt he was the better artist, and had seen chaster... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1872 - 530 pàgines
...served him right.—Johnson himself professes to have read through Fielding's Amelia without stopping. Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, he said, was the only...out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise. Boswell describes the Doctor's eager appropriation, at a dinner-party too, of Charles Sheridan's book... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1872 - 514 pàgines
...Johnson himself professes to have read through Fielding's Amelia without stopping. Burton's A natomy of Melancholy, he said, was the only book that ever...out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise. Boswell describes the Doctor's eager appropriation, at a dinner-party too, of Charles Sheridan's book... | |
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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. 
