...esteemed one of the most facetious companions in the university. Dr. Johnson says of this work, that " it was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise." And again, " it is, perhaps, overloaded with quotations ; but there is great spirit and great power...

...esteemed one of the most facetious companions in the university. Dr. Johnson says of this work, that" it was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise." And again, " it is, perhaps, overloaded with quotations ; but there is great spirit and great power...

...esteemed one of the most facetious companions in the university. Dr. Johnson says of this work, that " it was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise." And again, " it is, perhaps, overloaded with quotations ; but there is great spirit and great power...

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...recondite learning, he had .recourse to Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, of which he has affirmed, that " it was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise." * In the Gentleman's Magazine for 1736, p. 418. The prospect of succeeding in his academy growing every...

...recondite learning, he had recourse to Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, of which he has affirmed, that " it was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise." •; •. . I . '* In the Gentleman'! Magazine for 1736, p. 418. The prospect of succeeding in his...

...recondite learning, he had recourse to Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, of which he has affirmftd, that " it was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise." • In the Gentleman's Magazine for 1736, p. 418. The prospect of succeeding in his academy growing...

...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 ; wonderfully so, considering boa conversant the writers were with the best models of antiquity. " Burton's ' Anatomy of Melancholy,'...

...spirit and great power in what Burton says, when he writes from his own mind." He observed, that it was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise. Books of Travels having been mentioned., Johnson praised Pennant veiV highly. Dr. Percy (who was present),...

...language*. Dr. Johnson once said, " The old black letter books are rich in mattei though their style is inelegant, wonderfully so, considering how conversant...the writers were with the best models of antiquity." If the Doctor had not been very partial to classical lore himself, this would not have appeared wonderful...