...1,and/oj/, considered themselves to be company March 30, 1781. ' Burton's Anatomy of Melancholv, 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,...

...resembles the Montaigne Essays, the profundity of its thoughts, its originality, and its Baconianisms. Dr. Johnson said it was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise. We might infer that the Montaigne Essays were the production of a sensitive,...

...Lawrence 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...

...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,...

...Lawrence 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...

...Lawrence Sterne helped himself freely * to Burton's treasures, and Dr. Johnson said that the AnatJ{ omy was the only book that ever took him out of bed two W hours sooner than he wished to rise. The vulgar and common errors which Sir Thomas Browne set himself...

...(Birkbeck Hill Edition) is this reference to the same subject : " 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." A pretty little volume is the Lyric Offerings, by Laman S. Blanchard,...

...oblivion, but is now again popular among lovers of quaint literature. Dr. Johnson said it BURTON— BURY. was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours before his usual time. BURTON, ber'tn, WILLIAM EVANS: comedian: 1804~ 1860, Feb. 9; b. London; son of a printer and writer on Bible...

...would now have the courage to read it through, and probably fewer still could say with Dr. Johnson that it "was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise." Of Robert Burton himself very little is known. He was born in 1577,...

...models of antiquity. " Burton's ' Anatomy of Melancholy,' he said AGE 6i] BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON sooner than he wished to rise. " He frequently exhorted me to set about writing a History of Ireland,...