Author: Robert Burton

Cited by

• Robertson Davies (1)
  • IN: The Cunning Man (1996) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Cunning man, wizards, and white wtiches, as they call them, in every village, which, if they sought unto, they will help almost all infirmities of body and mind... The body's mischiefs, as Plato proves, proceed from the soul: and if the mind be not first satisfied, the body can never be cured.
    FROM: The Anatomy of Melancholy, (1621), Book, UK
• Anthony Burgess (2)
  • IN: The Enemy in the Blanket (1958) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Their coming and going is sure in the night: in the plains of Asia (saith he), the storks meet on such a set day, he that comes last is torn to pieces, and so they get them gone
    FROM: A Digression on the Air, (1651), Book, UK
  • IN: The Long Day Wanes (1964) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Their coming and going is sure in the night: in the plains of Asia (saith he), the storks meet on such a set day, he that comes last is torn to pieces, and so they get them gone.
    FROM: A Digression on the Air, (1621), NULL, UK
• Washington Irving (3)
  • IN: The Sketch-Book (1820) Fiction, Anthology, American
    EPIGRAPH: I have no wife nor children, good or bad, to provide for. A mere spectator of other men's fortunes and adventures, and how they play their parts; which, methinks, are diversely presented unto me, as from a common theatre or scene.
    FROM: The Anatomy of Melancholy, (1621), Book, UK
  • IN: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (1819) Fiction, Literary Essays, American
    EPIGRAPH: I have no wife nor children, good or bad, to provide for. A mere spectator of other men's fortunes and adventures, and how they play their parts; which, methinks, are diversely presented unto me, as from a common theatre or scene.
    FROM: The Anatomy of Melancholy, (1621), Book, UK
  • IN: The Art of Book-Making (1819) Short Story, Literary Essay, American
    EPIGRAPH: If that severe doom of Synesius be true,--"It is a greater offence to steal dead men's labor, than their clothes," --what shall become of most writers?
    FROM: The Anatomy of Melancholy, (1621), Book, UK
• Nora Roberts (1)
  • IN: Blood Brothers (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel.
    FROM: The Anatomy of Melancholy, (1621), Book, UK