“Like the watermen that row one way and look another.”
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
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The Anatomy of Melancholy
The Anatomy of Melancholy is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621, but republished five more times over the next seventeen years with massive alterations and expansions.
“Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel.”
Section 4, member 1, subsection 1.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
“Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.”
Section 2, member 2.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II
Section 2, member 2, subsection 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
Section 2, member 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II
“I had not time to lick it into form, as a bear doth her young ones.”
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
“[Desire] is a perpetual rack, or horsemill, according to Austin, still going round as in a ring.”
Section 2, member 3, subsection 11.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“They do not live but linger.”
Section 2, member 3, subsection 10.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.”
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
“Can build castles in the air.”
Section 2, member 1, subsection 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
Section 1, member 2, subsection 1.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
Section 3, member 1, subsection 2.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
Section 2, member 3, subsection 12.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
Section 2, member 1, subsection 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“All places are distant from heaven alike.”
Section 2, member 4, Exercise rectified of Body and Mind.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
“Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer.”
Section 1, member 2, subsection 5.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
“Like Aesop's fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his fellow foxes cut off theirs.”
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
“It is most true, stylus virum arguit,—our style bewrays us.”
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
