 | 1879 - 876 стор.
...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... | |
 | 1880 - 376 стор.
...fifth, folio, 1638; sixth, folio, 1651-2; seventh, folio, 1660; eighth, folio, double columns, 1676. These eight editions, all published in the seventeenth...seems to have led to a revival in the demand, and in 1800 the ninth edition appeared in two volumes royal octavo; the tenth, two volumes, in 1801 ; the... | |
 | Manchester Literary Club - 1880 - 772 стор.
...folio, 1651-2; seventh, folio, 1660; eighth, folio, double columns, 1676. These eight editions, nil published in the seventeenth century, sufficed for...seems to have led to a revival in the demand, and in 1800 the ninth edition appeared in two volumes royal octavo; the tenth, two volumes, in 1801; the eleventh,... | |
 | 1880 - 888 стор.
...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... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1880 - 724 стор.
...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,... | |
 | George Shaw (author of Rambles about Filey.) - 1880 - 264 стор.
...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... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1880 - 516 стор.
...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... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 394 стор.
...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.... | |
 | David Thomas - 1881 - 446 стор.
...and humour, and made a fortune for its first publisher. It is said that Dr. Johnson declared that it was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise. All this will stimulate our readers to become possessed of this cheap... | |
 | Moffatt and Paige - 1883 - 602 стор.
...very popular during the lifetime of the author, and still has many readers. Dr. Johnson said that it " was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise." James Usher (1586-1656), Archbishop of Armagh. He was famous for his... | |
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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. 
