 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1873 - 578 Seiten
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 Seiten
...conversant the writers were with the best models of antiquity. " 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. " He frequently exhorted me to set about writing a History of Ireland, and archly remarked, there had... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 - 860 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1879 - 876 Seiten
...comparative oblivion, but is now again popular among lovers of quaint literature. Dr Johnson said it was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours before his usual time. BtTRTON-ON-TKENT, n market-town in Staffordshire, on tlie river Trent and the... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1880 - 516 Seiten
...beholden to him." — Archbishop Herring's Letters, 12mo, 1777, p. 149. " BURTON'S ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY, he (Dr. Johnson) said, was the only book that ever...out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise." — BoswelfsLife of Johnson, vol. ip 580, 8vo. edit. " BURTON'S ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY is a valuable... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1880 - 510 Seiten
...Archbishop Herring's Letiers, 12mo, 1''', p. 149. " BURTON'S ANATOMY OP MELANCHOLY, he (Dr. Johuson) said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise." — Sosseell'sLife of Johuson, vol. ip 580, 8vo. edit. " BURTON'S ANATOMY OP MELANCHOLY is a valuable... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1880 - 724 Seiten
...quotation — often fantastical, often ridiculous, but always amusing — Dr. Johnson said, that it was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise. Sterne borrowed largely from it. " Twenty lines of a poet," says Taine, "a dozen lines of a treatise... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 394 Seiten
...book to be "studied," in the ordinary sense of the word ; and though Dr. Johnson speaks of it as " the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise," I suspect that most readers will be content to take it in instalments. A better companion for a summer... | |
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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. 
