...ArchbisKop Hen-ing's Letters, 12mo. 1777. p. 149, " BURTON'S ANATOMY OF MKLANCHOLY, he (Dr. Johnson) said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise." .Uoswell's Life of Johnson, vol. 1. p. 580. 8vo. edit. " BURTON'S ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY is a valuable...

...inelegant; wonderfully so, considering how 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 t\vo hours sooner than he wished to rise. " He frequently exhorted me to set about writing a History...

...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 two hours sooner than he wished to rise. Boswell's Life, ii. 120. - Surely there are precedents enough for the practice, though pessimi exempli,...

...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 two hours sooner than he wished to rise. Boswell's Life, ii. 120. - Surely there. are precedents enough for the practice, though pessimi exempli,...

...spirit and great power in what Burton says, when he writes from his own mind." He observed, that it was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise. Books of Travels having been mentioned, Johnson praised Pennant very highly. Dr. Percy (who was present),...

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...has been held in the highest estimation by the first literary men of our country. Dr. Johnson says it was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise; and Warton remarks, that " the writer's variety of learning, his quotations from scarce and curious...

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