 | James Boswell - 1791 - 554 pagina’s
...converfant the writers were with the beft models of antiquity, " Burton's 'Anatomy of Melancholy,' he faid, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours fooner than he wifhed to rife. " He frequently exhorted me to fet about writing a Hiftory of Ireland,... | |
 | 284 pagina’s
...obfcurity, infipidity, and uniformity of remote fituations. Burton's ' Anatomy of Melancholy ,'he faid was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours foonerthan he wifhed to rife. Being folicited to compofe a funeral fermon for the daughter of a tradefman,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1798 - 464 pagina’s
...fpirit and great power in what Burton fays, when he writes from his o\vn mind." He obferved, that it was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours fooner than he wifhed to rife. Books of Travels having been mentioned, Johnfon praifed Pennant very... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1800 - 616 pagina’s
...Archbishop Herring's Leiters, 12mo. П71. p. 149. " BURTON'S ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY, he (Dr. Johnson) said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours soonei than he wished to rise." BoswelVs Life of ' Johnson t vol. ip 580. 8vo. edit. " BURTON'S ANATOMY... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1804 - 622 pagina’s
...Letters, ISmo. 1777. p. " BURTON'S ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY, he (Dr. Johnson) s.ml, was the only book »hat ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to n^e." liosu-cU'i Life of Johnson, vol. ip 5SO, 8vo. edit. " BURTON'S ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY isav.iluable... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 370 pagina’s
...wrote in, is uncommonly clear and brilliant. Dr. Johnson has declared, that the " Anatomy of Melancholy was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise;" and in another place he observes, " it is, perhaps, overloaded with quotation. But there is a great... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 376 pagina’s
...wrote in, is uncommonly clear and brilliant. Dr. Johnson has declared, that the " Anatomy of Melancholy was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise;" and in another place he observes, " it is, perhaps, overloaded with quotation. But there is a great... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1806 - 620 pagina’s
...ArcklisHop Herring's Letters, 12mo. 1777. p. 140. " BURTON'S ANATOMY OF MELANCHQLY, he (Dr. Johnson) said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise." Boswell's Life of Johnson, vol. \. p. 58Q. 8vo. edit. " BURTQN'S ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY is a valuable... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 508 pagina’s
...proceeded pot from, imbecility, but from foppery. " He loved, he said, the old black letter books ; they were rich in matter, though their style was inelegant...the writers were with the best models of antiquity, 1'nn des plus nobles ornamens di* mpnde." Vol. iii. p. 311, edit, Amsterdam, 1781. IB] - 1770. " Burton's... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807
...companionable talents he had ever known. He said, " He loved, he said, the old black letter books ; they were rich in matter, though their style was inelegant...the writers were with the best models of antiquity. the defects in his history proceeded not from imbecili- i770. ty, but from foppery. " Burton's ' Anatomy... | |
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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. 
