...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...January 25, 1639-40. Burton was the author of the famous Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford, 1621, 4to. " Burton's ' Anatomy of Melancholy,' he said, was the only book that ever took him [Dr. Johnson] out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise." — BotwM'i Life of Dr. Johiuon,...