Several suggested that Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy had been my model.
" "Cannible is two brothers who killed each other in the Bible." "Anatomy is the human body, which consists of three parts, the head, the chist and the stummick.
"BURTON'S ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY is a valuable book," said Dr. Johnson.
Burton's wonderful Anatomy of Melancholy is a colossal personal essay.
Stubbs, a Puritan chronicler, whose book The Anatomy of Abuses is a valuable aid to the study of Tudor social history, and Harrison, whose description of England prefaces Holinshed's Chronicles, both deal in detail with the Italian menace, and condemn in good set terms the costliness in dress and the looseness in morals which they laid to its charge.