...follows Burton closely in manner and often in matter. Dr. Johnson said that "The Anatomy of Melancholy" was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise; large commendation surely, and I have never found any other, even of the most devout Burtonians,...

...follows Burton closely in manner and often in matter. Dr. Johnson said that "The Anatomy of Melancholy" was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise; large commendation surely, and I have never found any other, even of the most devout Burtonians,...

...verbose and rambling as an ill-constructed sermon. Much of it is stolen from Burton's Anatomy, which Dr. Johnson said was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours earlier than he wished to rise (I have never understood this). But the best of it is Sterne himself....

...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...

...the obscurity, insipidity, and uniformity of remote situations. '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 had great compassion for the miseries and distresses of the Irish nation, particularly the...

...follows Burton closely in manner and often in matter. Dr. Johnson said that The Anatomy of Melancholy was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise ; large commendation surely, and I have never found any other, even of the most devout Burtonians,...

...Eu« hit by Punch. Sleep (not) at Will. JOHNSON says of BURTON'S Anatomy of Melancholy, that it is the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise. How voluminous would be the catalogue of books that might have sent the lexicographer to sleep...

...him (see reference at n. 83 above). ¿ Below, p. 13. 100 ‘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'; Boswell's Life of Johnson, ed. George Birkbeck Hill, revd. LF Powell (Oxford, 1934—64), ii....

...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,...

...Works. (1697) 333. early except when he was writing the Rambler; 1 and Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.3 Samuel Pepys rose at four o'clock in the morning to read Cicero's Second Oration; Macaulay,...