 add, of my own knowledge, that it was a book that Dr. Johnson frequently resorted to, as many others have done, for amusement after the fatigue of study. H.—Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, Johnson said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 107by Samuel Johnson - 1825Full view - About this book
 | James Boswell - 1873 - 620 pages
...conversant the writers were with the best modela of antiquity. 'Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, he »aid, 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1875 - 524 pages
...him."—Archbishop Herring's Letters, 12mo, 1777, p. 149. "BURTON'S ANATOMY OP MELANCHOLY, he (Dr. Johnson) said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise."—Bosiceiïs Life of Johnson, vol. ip 680, 8vo. edit. " BURTON'S ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY is a... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1876 - 776 pages
...—Archbishop Herring's Letters, 12mo, 1777. p. 149. " BOBTON'S АИАТОМТ OP MELANCHOLY, he (Dr. Johnson) said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise."—Bosuiellt Life of Johnson, voL L p. 580, 8vo. edit. " BUBTON'S ANATOMY от MELANCHOLY is... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...valuable repository of amusement and information.' It delighted Dr Johnson so much, that he said this ' was the only book that ever took him. out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.' Its reputation was considerably extended by the publication of Illustrations of Sterne, in 1798,... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1876 - 408 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1880 - 510 pages
...him."—Archbishop Herring't Letters, 12mo, 1777, p. 149. "BURTON'S ANATOMY OP MELANCHOLY, he (Dr. Johnson) said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise."—BoawelfsLife of Johnson, vol. ip 680, 8vo. edit. " BURTON'S ANATOMY op MELASCHOLY is a valuable... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1880 - 724 pages
...and 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... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 394 pages
...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... | |
 | 1880 - 376 pages
...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... | |
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