Chamber's Cyclopædia of English literature; a history, critical and biographical, of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writings . t I have heard that nothingat last could make him laugh, but going down tothe Bridge-foot in Oxford, and hearing the Barge-men scold and storm and swear at one another,at which he would set his Hands to his Sides, andlaugh most profusely. There is, however, a strongpresumption that the anecdote is a mythical trans- ference to Burton of the idiosyncratic relaxation hesays his prototype permitted himsel
Chamber's Cyclopædia of English literature; a history, critical and biographical, of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writings . t I have heard that nothingat last could make him laugh, but going down tothe Bridge-foot in Oxford, and hearing the Barge-men scold and storm and swear at one another,at which he would set his Hands to his Sides, andlaugh most profusely. There is, however, a strongpresumption that the anecdote is a mythical trans- ference to Burton of the idiosyncratic relaxation hesays his prototype permitted himself (page 437). The first edition of the Anatomy of Melancholy,by Democritus Junior (1621), was in quarto ; andfour more editions in folio were published withinthe authors lifetime, each with successive altera-tions and additions. The final form of the bookwas the sixth edition (1651-52), printed from theauthors annotated copy. It is divided into threedivisions, each subdivided into sections, members,and subsections. Part I. treats of the causes andsymptoms of melancholy. Part II. of the cure ofmelancholy, and Part III. of love melancholy andreligious melancholy. In the long and interesting. ROBERT BURTON. From the Picture at Brasenose College, Oxford. preface, Democritus to the Reader, Burton givesan account of himself and his studies, and is hisown best critic : I have laboriously collected thisCento out of divers Writers, and that sine injuria,I have wronged no authors, but given every manhis own. Of his style he says : I neglect phrases,and labor wholly to inform my readers understand-ing, and not to please his ear ; lis not my study orintent to compose neatly, which an Orator requires,but to express myself readily and plainly as ithappens. So that as a River runs sometimes pre-cipitate and swift, then dul and slow ; now direct,then fier ambages; now deep, then shallow ; nowmuddy, then clear ; now broad, then narrow ; dothmy stile flow: now serious, then light; now comical,t
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