ROBERT BURTON. 1576-1640.
Naught so sweet as melancholy.?
Anatomy of Melancholy.& The Author' & Abstract<
I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling.*
Democritus to the Reader.
works. 5
They lard their lean books with the fat of others'
Ibid.
We can say nothing but what hath been said.® Our poets steal from Homer... • Our story-dressers do as much; he that comes last is commonly best.
Ibid.
I say with Didacus Stella, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant him-self.?
Ibid.
1 Deeds, not words. — BUTLER: Hudibras, part i. canto i. line
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