 | Robert Burton - 1837 - 644 strani
...Archbishop Herring's Letters, 12mo. 1777. p. 149. "BURTON'S ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY, 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. ip 580. 8vo. edit. " BURTON'S ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY is a valuable book,i'... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1838 - 762 strani
...full of sterling sense." — Archbishop Herring'i Ltlteri, 12mo. 1777. DR. JOHNSON speaks of it as the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise. " TBB ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY is a book which has been universally read and admired. This work is for... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1838 - 762 strani
...full of sterling sense." — Archbithop Herring's Letteri, 12mo. 1777. DR. JOHNSON speaks of it as t he scorned him any answer, tacite exprobrans fortunam suam (saith mine author), up "THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY is a book which has been universally read and admired. This work is for... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1840 - 770 strani
...full of sterling sense." — Archbithop Herring'» Leiter», 12mo. 1777. DR. JOHNSON speaks of it as the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise. "Тнв ANATOMY or MELANCHOLY is a book which has been universally read and admired. This work is for... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 strani
...valuable repository of amusement and information.' It delighted Dr Johneon so much, that he said this ' a god. Ant. Oh, thou hast fit'd me ; my soul's up in arms, And Its reputation was considerably extended by the publication of ' Illustrations of Sterne,' in 1798.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 strani
...wonderfully so, considering how conversant the writers were with the best models of antiquity. " Barton's ' Anatomy of Melancholy,' he said, was the only book...him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.1 " He frequently exhorted me to set about writing i History of Ireland ; and archly remarked,... | |
 | 1898 - 712 strani
...JOHNSON'S Two BOOKS.—Dr. Johnson is reported to have said of the ' Anatomy of Melancholy ' that " it was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise " (Boswell, 1867, p. 157) ; and of ' Robinson Crusoe ' that " nobody ever laid it down without wishing... | |
 | 430 strani
...life-philosophy, sung according to ability." ELIZA COOK'S JOURNAL. did he make it. Johnson declared that it was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise ; and Coleridge declared it to be one of the most charming hooks iu the language. Burton was another... | |
 | 1872 - 676 strani
...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... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1850 - 728 strani
...Archbishop Herring's Leiters, I'-mo. 1777. p. 149. "Вгнтот'в AHATOMY or MELANCHOLY, he (Dr. Johnson) on and variance, and scarce any conveyance so accurately penned by one, which another will not — Buswcll'i Life of Johnson, vol. i. p. 580. 8vo. edit. '• BI*HTON'S ANATOMT or MELANCHOLY is a... | |
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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. 
