...converfant the writers were with the beft models of antiquity, " Burton's 'Anatomy of Melancholy,' he faid, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours fooner than he wifhed to rife. " He frequently exhorted me to fet about writing a Hiftory of Ireland,...

...obfcurity, infipidity, and uniformity of remote fituations. Burton's ' Anatomy of Melancholy ,'he faid was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours foonerthan he wifhed to rife. Being folicited to compofe a funeral fermon for the daughter of a tradefman,...

...great fpirit and great power in what Burton fays, when he writes from his o\vn mind." He obferved, that it was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours fooner than he wifhed to rife. Books of Travels having been mentioned, Johnfon praifed Pennant very...

...Archbishop Herring's Leiters, 12mo. П71. p. 149. " BURTON'S ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY, he (Dr. Johnson) said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours soonei than he wished to rise." BoswelVs Life of ' Johnson t vol. ip 580. 8vo. edit. " BURTON'S ANATOMY...

...wrote in, is uncommonly clear and brilliant. Dr. Johnson has declared, that the " Anatomy of Melancholy was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise;" and in another place he observes, " it is, perhaps, overloaded with...

...wrote in, is uncommonly clear and brilliant. Dr. Johnson has declared, that the " Anatomy of Melancholy was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise;" and in another place he observes, " it is, perhaps, overloaded with...

...ArcklisHop Herring's Letters, 12mo. 1777. p. 140. " BURTON'S ANATOMY OF MELANCHQLY, he (Dr. Johnson) said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise." Boswell's Life of Johnson, vol. \. p. 58Q. 8vo. edit. " BURTQN'S ANATOMY...

...esteemed one of the most facetious companions in the university. Dr. Johnson says of this work, that " it was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise." And again, " it is, perhaps, overloaded with quotations ; but there...

...esteemed one of the most facetious companions in the university. Dr. Johnson says of this work, that" it was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise." And again, " it is, perhaps, overloaded with quotations ; but there...

...esteemed one of the most facetious companions in the university. Dr. Johnson says of this work, that " it was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise." And again, " it is, perhaps, overloaded with quotations ; but there...