| 1872 - 592 pàgines
...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... | |
| 1872 - 602 pàgines
...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... | |
| James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 pàgines
...how conversant the writers were with the best models of antiquity. 'Burton's Anatomy of Melandmhi, lectual, everything abstract —polities, morals, and religion — must aet about writing a history of Ireland, and archly remarked there had bcen some good Irish writers,... | |
| James Boswell - 1873 - 620 pàgines
...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...considering how conversant the writers were with the best moduli of antiquity. 'Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, he said, was the only book that ever took him... | |
| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1873 - 1484 pàgines
...since. Sterne seems to have used it almost as a cominonVOL. in. — 31 place book. Dr. Johnson said it was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise. Byron called it the most exciting and instructive medley of quotations and classical anecdotes he ever... | |
| Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1873 - 580 pàgines
...complaining, melancholy, and miserable. Burton, in his quaint and curious book — the only one, Johnson says, that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise * " Essay on Government," in " Encyclopaedia Britannica. " —describes the causes of Melancholy as... | |
| Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pàgines
...valuable repository of amusement and information.' It delighted Dr Johnson so much, that he said this ' nference a ready man, and writing an exact man : and, therefore, if a man write little, he Its reputation was considerably extended by the publication of Illustrations of Sterne, in 1798, by... | |
| Samuel Smiles - 1876 - 408 pàgines
...complaining, melancholy, and miserable. Burton, in his quaint and curious book — the only one, Johnson says, that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise — describes the causes of Melancholy as hingeing mainly on Idleness. " Idleness," he says, " is the... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1883 - 862 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... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 pàgines
...January 25, ШУ-40. Burton was the author of the famous Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford, 1021, 4to. d on high into a pure region, where they live without their bodies to all eternit [Dr. Johnson] out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise."- — Boairrll'* Life <tf Lir. ,/чА»»он,... | |
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