 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
 | Paul Kent Alkon - 1967 - 240 pages
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 | Bergen Evans - 1968 - 2142 pages
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 | Gamaliel Bradford - 1917 - 312 pages
...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,... | |
 | Gamaliel Bradford - 1917 - 316 pages
...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,... | |
 | Alfred Edward Newton - 1925 - 598 pages
...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.... | |
 | Johnson Society - 1969 - 802 pages
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 | Francis Jacox - 1872 - 494 pages
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