...what Burton says when he writes from his own mind'. He told Boswell that The Anatomy of Melancholy was the ' only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise'. Many men before and after Johnson have had pleasure in the volume. Sterne borrowed from it in Tristram...

...Melancholy ' has been constantly pillaged, sometimes imitated, never equalled." — Atlten. Oxon. " The only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise." — Dr. Johnson. " The most amusing and instructive medley of quotation and classical anecdotes I ever...

...the Oxford recluse who wrote The Anatomy of Melancholy, "the only book," said Boswell of Dr. Johnson, "that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise." Once under the spell of the Anatomy, there is no release for any man, whether he be of the staid character...

...rambling as an ill-constructed sermon. Much of it is stolen from Burton's Anatomy, which Dr. Johnson said was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours earlier than he wished to rise (I have never understood this). But the best of it is Sterne himself....

...of the most curious and interesting in the whole realm of literature. Dr. Johnson said that it "wag the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise." Milton read it, deriving hints for II Penseroso; Sterne pillaged it; Lamb admired it and imitated its...

...been right. Dr Johnson told Boswell — perhaps with a touch of rhetorical exaggeration — that it was ' the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours earlier than he wished to rise ' ; Laurence Sterne indubitably made good and copious use of it to embellish...

...follows Burton closely in manner and often in matter. Dr. Johnson said that The Anatomy of Melancholy was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise ; large commendation surely, and I have never found any other, even of the most devout Burtonians,...

...poetical argument opposite, folio, old calf, rebacked ' £2/15/Dr. Johnson observed that this " was th e only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than be wished to rise." 153 BURTON (Sir RF) A Mission to Célele, King of Dahome, with Notices of the so-called...

...English nor Latin versions were available lo him (see reference at n. 83 above). 99 Below, p. 13. 100 'Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy," he said, was the...out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise'; Boswell's Life of Johnson, ed. George Birkbeck Hill, revd. LF Powell (Oxford, 1934-64), ii. 121; he...

...them, and leaves reason the knowledge of right without the power of pursuing it. — SAMUEL JOHNSON137 Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, he said, was the only...out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise. —JAMES BOSWELL138 Samuel Johnson and James Bos well, two of the leading literary figures of the eighteenth...