Church often say, that his company was very merry, facete, and juvenile; and no man in his time did surpass him for his ready and dexterous interlarding his common discourses among them with verses from the poets, or sentences from classic authors ; which... Blackwood's Magazine - Page 3221861Full view - About this book
| Robert Burton - 1800 - 616 pages
...very merry, facete, and juvenile ; and no man in his time did surpass him for his ready and dextrous interlarding his common discourses among them with...university, made his company the more acceptable." He appears to have been a universal reader of all kinds of books, and availed himself of his multifarious... | |
| Robert Burton - Melancholy - 1804 - 622 pages
...very merry, facete, and juvenile ; and no man in his time did surpass him for his ready and dextrous interlarding his common discourses among them with...university, made his company the more acceptable." He appears to have been a universal reader of all kinds of books, and availed himself of his multifarious... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...of' Christ Church often say, that his company was very merry, facete, and juvenile ; and no man of his time did surpass him for his ready and dexterous...university, made his company the more acceptable. " The Anatomy of Melancholy," was composed, (says Granger) with a view of relieving his own melancholy... | |
| George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 970 pages
...an»cients of Christ Church often say, that his company was very merry, facete, and juvenile ; and no man of his time did surpass him for his ready and dexterous...university, made his company the more acceptable. . .. " The Anatomy of Melancholy," was composed, (says Granger) with a view of relieving his own melancholy... | |
| George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 528 pages
...ancients of Christ Church often say, that his company was very merry, facete, and juvenile ; and no man of his time did surpass him for his ready and dexterous...university, made his company the more acceptable. " The Anatomy of Melancholy," was composed, (says Granger) with a view of relieving his own melancholy... | |
| George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 524 pages
...his company was very merry, facete, and juvenile ; • id no man of his time did surpass him for . ready and dexterous interlarding his common discourses...university, made his company the more acceptable. " The Anatomy of Melancholy," was composed, (says Granger) with a view of re-, lieving his own melancholy... | |
| William Davis (bibliographer.) - 1814 - 140 pages
...and no man in his time did surpass him for his ready and dexterous interlarding his common discom'ses among them with verses from the poets, or sentences...University, made his company the more acceptable," Burton, composed the Anatomy with a view of relieving his own melancholy: but increased it to such... | |
| Robert Burton - 1821 - 614 pages
...very merry, facete, and juvenile ; and no man in his time did surpass him for his ready and dextrous interlarding his common discourses among them with...university, made his company the more acceptable." He appears to have been a universal reader of all kinds of .books, and availed himself of his multifarious... | |
| Robert Burton - Melancholy - 1821 - 612 pages
...very merry, facete, and juvenile ; and no man in his time did surpass him for his ready and dextrous interlarding his common discourses among them with...university, made his company the more acceptable." He appears to have been a universal reader of all kinds of books, and availed himself of his multifarious... | |
| John Platts - Biography - 1826 - 882 pages
...was very facetious and juvenile ; and no man in his time did surpass him for his ready and dextrous interlarding his common discourses among them with...university, made his company the more acceptable." He appears to have been a universal reader of all kinds of books, and availed himself of his multifarious... | |
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