...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 its...

...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...

...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,...

...poetical argument opposite, folio, old calf, rebacked ' £2/15/Dr. Johnson observed that this " was th e only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than be wished to rise." 153 BURTON (Sir RF) A Mission to Célele, King of Dahome, with Notices of the so-called...

...English nor Latin versions were available lo him (see reference at n. 83 above). 99 Below, p. 13. 100 'Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy," he said, was the...out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise'; Boswell's Life of Johnson, ed. George Birkbeck Hill, revd. LF Powell (Oxford, 1934-64), ii. 121; he...

...them, and leaves reason the knowledge of right without the power of pursuing it. — SAMUEL JOHNSON137 Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, he said, was the only...out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise. —JAMES BOSWELL138 Samuel Johnson and James Bos well, two of the leading literary figures of the eighteenth...

...James Boswell Life of Samuel ¡ohnson ( 1 79 1 ) 26 October 1769 6 Burton's Anatomy oj ' Melanc holy, he said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise. James Bosweli Life of Samuel /о/ш.чоп ( 1 79 1 ) 1 770 7 Want of tenderness, he always alleged,...

...left Birmingham. Neither of us knows anything about Johnson, except that The Anatomy of Melancholy 'was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours earlier than he wanted to rise . . .' We crossed the River Trent at Burton, where we stayed the night...

...had he known that Samuel Johnson, himself a depressive, turned to the Anatomy for consolation - it was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise. The number of papers published about depression is currently more than 3,000 every year, so I have...

...rope-dancing, Johnson recommended reading Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy (Boswell 1979:690). Because it was the only book "that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise" (Boswell:438), we may assume that, for Johnson, reading about melancholy was one of the methods he...