Sublime

Robert Burton. Il a écrit en 1621 un livre des plus joyeux et des plus réconfortants : Anatomie de la mélancolie. Selon Boswell, le mélancolique Dr Johnson décrivait cet ouvrage comme « le seul livre capable de le tirer du lit deux heures avant l’heure habituelle ». À sa parution, ce fut un best-seller, qui connut jusqu’à huit éditions, grâce

This is why most people choose doctors in whom they have confidence. A patient’s

Briefly Carleton considered the other man, of whom he’d made such a study he might have been appointed professor of Thomas Studies at the University of Essex. He knew, for example, that Thomas was a confirmed bachelor, as they say, never seen in the company of a beautiful young person or a stately older one; that he had about him the melancholy

Stephen was a wretched patient; sometimes he looked to M’Alister as an omniscient being who would certainly produce the one true physic; sometimes the ship resounded to the cry of ‘Charlatan’, and drugs would be seen hurtling through the scuttle. The chaplain suffered more than the rest: most of the officers haunted other parts of the ship when the