 he composed this book .with a view of relieving his own melancholy, but increased it to such a degree, that nothing could make him laugh but going to the bridge foot and hearing the ribaldry of the bargemen, which rarely failed to throw him into a violent...  The Study of Medicine - Pàgina 90per John Mason Good - 1825Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | William Davis (bibliographer.) - 1814 - 146 pàgines
...the fashion in th« University, made his company the more acceptable," Burton, composed the Anatomy with a view of relieving his own melancholy : but...that nothing could make him laugh but going to the Bridge foot, and hearing the ribaldry of the bargemen, which rarely failed to throw him into a violent... | |
 | John Platts - 1826 - 882 pàgines
...adopted from the infirmities of his own habit and constitution. Mr. Granger says " he composed this book .with a view of relieving his own melancholy, but...that nothing could make him laugh but going to the bridge foot and hearing the ribaldry of the bargemen, which rarely failed to throw him into a violent... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1833 - 596 pàgines
...ridiculous objects which there he saw.'* A most * ' Burton,' says Mr. Grainger, ' wrote his Anatomie with a view of relieving his own melancholy, but increased...to such a degree, that nothing could make him laugh A most urgent letter was despatched to Hippocrates in the name of the senate and people of Abdera,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1833 - 594 pàgines
...ridiculous objects which there he saw.'* A most * ' Button,' says Mr. Grainger, ' wrote his Anatomie with a view of relieving his own melancholy, but increased...to such a degree, that nothing could make him laugh A most urgent letter was despatched to Hippocrates in tho name of the senate and people of Abdera,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1833 - 586 pàgines
...ridiculous objects which there he saw.'* A most * ' Button,' says Mr. Grainger, ' wrote his Anatomie with a view of relieving his own melancholy, but increased it to such a degree, that nothing could make him A most urgent letter was despatched to Hippocrates in the name of the senate and people of Abdera,... | |
 | 1833 - 590 pàgines
...ridiculous objects which there he saw.'* A most * ' Burton,' says Mr. Grainger, 'wrote his Anatomie with a view of relieving his own melancholy, but increased it to such a degree, that nothing could make him A most urgent letter was despatched to Hippocrates in the name of the senate and people of Abdera,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 490 pàgines
...all the fashion in the university, made his company the more acceptable.' Burton composed The Anatomy with a view of relieving his own melancholy; but increased...that nothing could make him laugh but going to the Rridgefoot, and hearing the ribaldry of the bargemen, which rarely failed to throw him into a violent... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1858 - 426 pàgines
...through a slip about his neck.' This Democritus Junior, alias Robert Burton, composed a book, ' with the view of relieving his own melancholy, but increased it to such a degree-, that nothing could make hint laugh, but going to the bridge foot and hearing the ribaldry of the bargemen, which rarely failed... | |
 | Halkett (i.e. Richard Halkatt Lord (ed.)) - 1883 - 602 pàgines
...from the infirmities of his own habit and constitution. Mr. (¡ranger says, "He composed this book with a view of relieving his own melancholy, but increased...that nothing could make him laugh, but going to the foot bridge and hearing the ribalry of the barge-men, which rarely failed to throw him into a violent... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 492 pàgines
...imagine otherwise. Yet was he of a melancholy disposition, and it is said that "he composed this book with a view of relieving his own melancholy, but increased...that nothing could make him laugh but going to the foot-bridge and hearing the ribaldry of the bargemen. ROBERT BURTON which rarely failed to throw him... | |
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