 | Ignatius Donnelly - 1888 - 528 стор.
...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,... | |
 | 1890 - 974 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... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1890 - 320 стор.
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 стор.
...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,... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1894 - 342 стор.
...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... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1894 - 328 стор.
...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... | |
 | 1896 - 688 стор.
...(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,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 492 стор.
...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,... | |
 | 1897 - 860 стор.
...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... | |
 | Sister Mary Lambertine - 1903 - 318 стор.
...Melancholy," a medley of curious quotations and pleasing anecdotes. Dr. Johnson said of it that it was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise. John Lyly (1563-1601) won his reputation by a »work styled " Euphues... | |
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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. 
