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    The Anatomy of Melancholy (full title: The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of...
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    Robert Burton (category History of mental health in the United Kingdom)
    and fellow of Oxford University, known for his encyclopedic The Anatomy of Melancholy. Born in 1577 to a comfortably well-off family of the landed gentry...
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    16. "BOOK I, tr. John Clarke". R. Burton (2023 [1651]), The Anatomy of Melancholy, Penguin, pp. 713-714. R. Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 715....
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  • The Anatomy of Melancholy is a live album by the British gothic metal band Paradise Lost. It was recorded on 12 April 2007 at the Koko (London). The album...
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    hallucinations and delusions. Melancholy was regarded as one of the four temperaments matching the four humours. Until the 18th century, doctors and other...
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  • of melancholy. Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) touches on the subject in the commentary as one of many related manifestations of the...
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  • Present and Future. Royal Society of Chemistry. ISBN 9781847558121. Burton, Robert (1857) [1621]. The Anatomy of Melancholy. London: William Tegg. p. 324...
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    from Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy, Francis Bacon's Of Death, Rabelais and many more, and rearranged them to serve the new meaning intended...
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  • subjection." (Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, first published 1621) "The pontifex maximus Scævola thought it expedient that the people should be deceived...
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  • in his The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) to describe his ostensibly plain writing style, claiming, "I call a spade a spade" (1.17.23).: 2 n.3  The phrase...
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    passages exist in The City of God by Saint Augustine of Hippo, and Tertullian's Ad Nationes. Robert Burton, in The Anatomy of Melancholy, mentions a god...
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  • replacement the term anatomy (taken from Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy). In his theory of prose fiction it occupies the fourth place with the novel, romance...
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    Schadenfreude (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
    [etc.], of which elsewhere. — The Anatomy of Melancholy The philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer mentioned schadenfreude as the most evil sin of human feeling...
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    Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy and Bishop Francis Godwin's fantastical The Man in the Moone. Two approaches have dominated explanations of the story of the...
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    to in Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy, and others. In Islamic cultures, the related term dayouth...
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  • to a sea horse. In 1621, Robert Burton published The Anatomy of Melancholy, which looked at the loss of important characters in one's life as leading to...
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    wrote: "... many wearing rapiers are afraid of goosequills." Robert Burton, in 1621, in The Anatomy of Melancholy, stated: "It is an old saying, 'A blow with...
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    age the Earth was as flat as a stove lid and that it floated on water like half of a sliced orange." Robert Burton, in his The Anatomy of Melancholy wrote:...
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  • The amount of liquid in every onion piece tells how much rain/snow there will be in the respective month. Burton, Robert. "The Anatomy of Melancholy"...
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  • trans, The Sanka Shu (Tokyo 1971) p. 236-7 G Maciocia, The Psyche in Chinese Medicine (2009) p. 136 Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (New York...
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    key to the sources Burton used in The Anatomy of Melancholy. He collected books relating to Burton, and after Sarah died, he gave the core of his collection...
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    Music (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
    World of Patterns: A Global History of Knowledge. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 169. ISBN 978-1-4214-4345-4. cf. The Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert...
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    albumlista". "Albumit 21/2020". IFPI Finland. Retrieved 24 May 2020. "The Anatomy of Melancholy (Live) by Paradise Lost". iTunes. 23 May 2008. "Draconian Times...
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  • in the second edition of The Anatomy of Melancholy (1624), quotes Stella thus: I say with Didacus Stella, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant...
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  • twenty-three letters," is from Robert Burton's 1621 The Anatomy of Melancholy. In mainstream theories of natural language syntax, every syntactically valid...
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  • linked to isolation. The seminal scholarly work of the 17th century was English scholar Robert Burton's book, The Anatomy of Melancholy, drawing on numerous...
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  • was an English writer and fellow of Oxford University, best known for his encyclopedic book The Anatomy of Melancholy. Robert Burton may also refer to:...
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  • Nicolas K.; Faulkner, Thomas C.; Blair, Rhonda L. (eds.). The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part 3, Sect. 4. Memb. 1. Subs. 2.. Vol. 3. Oxford University Press...
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  • Doome according to the reader's capacity." The early modern scholar Robert Burton deploys the expression in his The Anatomy of Melancholy: Our writings are...
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  • Simon Grahame (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature)
    the latter of which is believed to have suggested to Robert Burton his The Anatomy of Melancholy. He became an austere Franciscan. A sonnet of Grahame's...
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