 | James Boswell - 1791 - 554 pages
...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,... | |
 | English poetry - 284 pages
...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 - Anecdotes - 1798 - 464 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Melancholy - 1804 - 622 pages
...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 - English essays - 1805 - 370 pages
...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 - English essays - 1805 - 376 pages
...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 - 626 pages
...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 - Authors, English - 1807 - 514 pages
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 508 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
