 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 - Page 90by John Mason Good - 1825Full view - About this book
 | William Davis (bibliographer.) - Bibliography - 1814 - 146 pages
...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 - Biography - 1826 - 882 pages
...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) - English literature - 1833 - 596 pages
...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) - English literature - 1833 - 594 pages
...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) - English literature - 1833 - 586 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 - English fiction - 1858 - 426 pages
...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.)) - American literature - 1883 - 602 pages
...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... | |
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