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" I no sooner (saith he) come into the library, but I bolt the door to me, excluding lust, ambition, avarice, and all such vices, whose nurse is Idleness, the mother of Ignorance, and Melancholy herself, and in the very lap of eternity, amongst so many... "
The Literary world, conducted by J. Timbs - Page 216
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The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes ...

Robert Burton - 1800 - 616 pages
...idlenesse the mother of Ignorance, and Melancholy herself, and in the very lap of eternity, amongst so many divine souls, I take my seat, with so lofty a spirit and sweet content, that I pitty all our great ones, and rich men that know not this happinesse." I am not...
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The Director: A Weekly Literary Journal: Containing I. Essays, on ..., Volume 2

Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Frognall - Periodicals - 1807 - 386 pages
...idleness, the mother of ignorance and melancholy herself; and in the very lap of eternity, amongst so many divine souls, I take my seat, with so lofty a spirit and sweet content, that I pity all our great ones, and rich men, that know not this happiness/ THE preceding...
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The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes ...

Robert Burton - Melancholy - 1821 - 612 pages
...Idlenesse the mother of Ignorance, and Melancholy her self; and in the very lap of eternity, amongst so many divine souls, I take my seat, with so lofty a spirit and sweet content, that 1 pitty all our great ones, and rich men, that know not this happinessc. I am not...
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The anatomy of melancholy, by Democritus iunior, Volume 1

Robert Burton - 1821 - 614 pages
...Idlenesse the mother of Ignorance, and Melancholy her self; and, in the very lap of eternity, amongst so many divine souls, I take my seat, with so lofty a spirit and sweet content, that I pitty all our great ones, and rich men, that know not this happinesse. I am not...
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The Pleasures of Human Life, Examined and Enumerated: With an Entertaining ...

John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 pages
...idleness, the mother of ignorance, and melancholy herself; and, in the very lap of eternity, amongst so many divine souls, I take my seat with so lofty a spirit and ' sweet content, that I pity all those rich and great men who are unacquainted with this happiness."...
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Curiosities of Literature, Volume 1

Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1823 - 342 pages
...whose nurse is Idleness, the mother of Ignorance and Melancholy. In the very lap of eternity, amongst so many divine souls, I take my seat with so lofty a spirit, and sweet content, that I pity all our great ones and rich men, that know not this happiness." Such is...
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Curiosities of Literature, Volume 1

Isaac Disraeli - Culture in literature - 1824 - 538 pages
...whose nurse is Idleness, the mother of Ignorance and Melancholy. In the very lap of eternity, amongst so many divine souls, I take my seat with so lofty a spirit, and sweet content, that I pity all our great ones and rich men, that know not this happiness." Such is...
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The Anatomy of Melancholy,: In which the Kinds, Causes, Consequences, and ...

Robert Burton - Melancholy - 1824 - 374 pages
...Idleness, the mother of Ignorance, and Melancholy herself ; and, in the very lap of eternity, amongst so many divine souls, I take my seat with so lofty a spirit and sweet content, that I pity all those rich and great men who are unacquainted with this happiness."...
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Spirit of the English Magazines

1827 - 996 pages
...idleness, the mother of ignorance and melancholy herself ; and in the very lap of eternity, amongst so many divine souls, I take my seat, with so lofty a spirit and sweet content, that I pity all our great ones and rich men, that know not this happiness.'* DR. RADCLIFFE....
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Ladies' Magazine and Literary Gazette, Volume 4

1831 - 596 pages
...is the mother of ignorance, and melancholy herself; and here, in the very lap of eternity, amongst so many divine souls, I take my seat with so lofty a spirit, and snch sweet .content, that I pity all our great ones aad rich men, that know not this happiness." —...
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