| 1817 - عدد الصفحات: 552
...heard," continues the biographer, " some of the ancients of Christ church often say, that his company w*s very merry, facete and juvenile; and no man in his...all the fashion in the university, made his company more acceptable." MONTAIGNE. — The pleasure which we derive from the perusal of this merry Gascon... | |
| Robert Burton - 1804 - عدد الصفحات: 622
...student, a devourer of authors, a melancholy and humorous person ; so by others, who knew him well, a person of great honesty, plain dealing and charity....very extraordinary manner. From the information of Hcarne, we learn, that John Rouse, the Bodleian librarian, furnished him with choice book« for the... | |
| Robert Burton - 1806 - عدد الصفحات: 626
...student, a devourer of authors, a mefancholy and humorous person ; so by others, who knew him well, a person of great honesty, plain dealing, and charity....which being then all the fashion in the university, jnade his company the more acceptable." He appears to have been a universal reader of all kinds of... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - عدد الصفحات: 528
...very merry, facete, and juvenile ; and no man of his time did surpass him for his ready and dexterous interlarding his common discourses among them with...university, made his company the more acceptable. " The Anatomy of Melancholy," was composed, (says Granger) with a view of relieving his own melancholy... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - عدد الصفحات: 528
...very merry, facete, and juvenile ; and no man of his time did surpass him for his ready and dexterous interlarding his common discourses among them with...university, made his company the more acceptable. " The Anatomy of Melancholy," was composed, (says Granger) with a view of relieving his own melancholy... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - عدد الصفحات: 970
...very merry, facete, and juvenile ; and no man of his time did surpass him for his ready and dexterous interlarding his common discourses among them with...university, made his company the more acceptable. . .. " The Anatomy of Melancholy," was composed, (says Granger) with a view of relieving his own melancholy... | |
| William Davis (bibliographer.) - 1814 - عدد الصفحات: 140
...and no man in his time did surpass him for his ready and dexterous interlarding his common discom'ses among them with verses from the poets, or sentences...University, made his company the more acceptable," Burton, composed the Anatomy with a view of relieving his own melancholy: but increased it to such... | |
| William Davis (bibliographer.) - 1814 - عدد الصفحات: 146
...very merry, facete, and juvenile; and no man in his time did surpass him for his ready and dexterous interlarding his common discourses among them with...Classic authors, which being then all the fashion in th« University, made his company the more acceptable," Burton, composed the Anatomy with a view of... | |
| 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 814
...very merry, facete, and juvenile; and no man in his time did surpass him for his ready and dexterous interlarding his common discourses among them with...university, made his company the more acceptable." There is no doubt but that he was what we should now call a very eccentric character ; he had probably... | |
| Robert Burton - 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 608
...person of great honesty, plain dealing and charity. I have heard some of the ancients of Christ Church often say, that his company was very merry, facete,...University, made his company the more acceptable." In order to relieve his melancholy,it is said, he diverted himself by listening to theribaldry of the... | |
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