...Laurence Sterne helped himself freely to Burton's treasures, and Dr. Johnson said that the "Anatomy" was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise. The vulgar and common errors which Sir Thomas Browne set himself to refute were such as these...

...authors. The book went through five editions during the author's lifetime, and Dr. Johnson said that it was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours before the usual time. ALL MEN SUBJECT TO MELANCHOLY. Melancholy, the subject of our present discourse,...

...conversant the writers were with the best models .¿f 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,...

...classical learning, he showed a fondness for Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy, declaring that it was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.* Intellectual curiosity, which led him to study Low Dutch in his old age, was one of his distinguishing...

...of Melancholy ' has been constantly pillaged, sometimes imitated, never equalled."—Athen. Oxon. " The only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise."—7>r. Johnson. " The most amusing and instructive medley of quotation and classical anecdotes...

...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....

...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....

...of the most curious and interesting in the whole realm of literature. Dr. Johnson said that it "wag the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise." Milton read it, deriving hints for II Penseroso; Sterne pillaged it; Lamb admired it and imitated...

...have been right. Dr Johnson told Boswell—perhaps with a touch of rhetorical exaggeration—that it was ' the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours earlier than he wished to rise '; Laurence Sterne indubitably made good and copious use of it to embellish...

...been right. Dr. Johnson told Boswell — perhaps with a touch of rhetorical exaggeration — that it was 'the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours earlier than he wished to rise'; Laurence Sterne indubitably made good and copious use of it to embellish'...