 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 pages
...January 25, 1639-40. Burton was the author of the famous Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford, 1621, 4to. " Burton's ' Anatomy of Melancholy,' he said, was the only book that ever took him [Dr. Johnson] out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise." — BotwM'i Life of Dr. Johiuon,... | |
 | 1879 - 876 pages
...comparative oblivion, but is now again popular among lovers of quaint literature. Dr Johnson said it was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours before his usual time. BtTRTON-ON-TKENT, n market-town in Staffordshire, on tlie river Trent and the... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1880 - 516 pages
...Archbishop Herring's Letters, 12mo, 1777, p. 149. " BURTON'S ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY, he (Dr. Johnson) said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise." — BoswelfsLife of Johnson, vol. ip 580, 8vo. edit. " BURTON'S ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY is a valuable... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1880 - 724 pages
...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 treatise... | |
 | 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 a summer... | |
 | 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... | |
 | George Shaw (author of Rambles about Filey.) - 1880 - 264 pages
...oblivion for a time, but is now again popular among lovers of quaint literature. Dr. Johnson said it was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours before his usual time. Anthony Wood says he was a good mathematician, a dabbler in nativities, a well-read... | |
 | 1880 - 888 pages
...comparative oblivion, but is now again popular among lovers of quaint literature. Dr. Johnson said it was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours before his usual time. BURTON, WILLIAM EVANS, 1804-60; b. London; son of William George B. , author... | |
 | Library Association - 1880 - 224 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 i800 the ninth... | |
 | Alfred Edward Newton - 1925 - 598 pages
...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.... | |
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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. 
