Robert Burton frasi celebri
L'anatomia della malinconia
citato in Giuseppe Fumagalli, Chi l'ha detto?, Hoepli, 1921, p. 296
“Se c'è un inferno sulla terra, questo si trova nel cuore di un uomo malinconico.”
L'anatomia della malinconia
L'anatomia della malinconia
Robert Burton: Frasi in inglese
Section 2, member 3, subsection 12, Covetousness, a Cause.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven.”
Section 2, member 2, subsection 5.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
“The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill.”
Section 3, member 4, subsection 1.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
Section 2, member 6, Perturbations of the mind rectified. From himself, by resisting to the utmost, confessing his grief to a friend, etc.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II
“The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies.”
Section 4, member 1, subsection 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
Section 4, member 2, subsection 3, Causes of Despair, the Devil, Melancholy, Meditation, Distrust, Weakness of Faith, Rigid Ministers, Misunderstanding Scriptures, Guilty Consciences, etc.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
“Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.”
Section 2, member 2, subsection 2.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
Section 2, member 4, subsection 6.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“Like him in Æsop, he whipped his horses withal, and put his shoulder to the wheel.”
Section 1, member 2, Lawful Cures, first from God.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II
Section 4, member 2, subsection 1, Purging Simples upward.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II
“No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.”
Section 2, member 1, subsection 2, How Love tyranniseth over men. Love, or Heroical Melancholy, his definition, part affected.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
Section 2, member 3, subsection 13, Love of Gaming, &c. and pleasures immoderate; Causes.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.”
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
“A good conscience is a continual feast.”
Section 4, member 2, subsection 3, Causes of Despair, the Devil, Melancholy, Meditation, Distrust, Weakness of Faith, Rigid Ministers, Misunderstanding Scriptures, Guilty Consciences, etc.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
“The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde.”
Ed. 6, p. 40.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
“Machiavel says virtue and riches seldom settle on one man.”
Section 2, member 2.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II
“[The rich] are indeed rather possessed by their money than possessors.”
Section 2, member 3, subsection 12, Covetousness, a Cause.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader