...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,...

...January 25, ШУ-40. Burton was the author of the famous Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford, 1021, 4to. d on high into a pure region, where they live without their bodies to all eternit [Dr. Johnson] out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise."- — Boairrll'* Life <tf Lir. ,/чА»»он,...

...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...

...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." — BoswelfsLife of Johnson, vol. ip 580, 8vo. edit. " BURTON'S ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY is a valuable...

...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...

...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...

...seventeenth century, sufficed for a while ; but Dr. Johnson's remark that the " Anatomy of Melancholy" '' was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours earlier than he wished to rise," seems to have led to a revival in the demand, and in i800 the ninth...

...seventeenth century, sufficed for a while; but Dr. Johnson's remark that the Anatomy of Melancholy " was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours earlier than he wished to rise" seems to have led to a revival in the demand, and in 1800 the ninth...