 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
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...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'... | |
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