The Anatomy of Melancholy TC_Bestseller framed by the stately galaxies

framed by the stately galaxies of space

into their fold

the more she risks losing her heart

One peaceful morning

What were their values

The Anatomy of Melancholy TC_Bestseller framed by the stately galaxiesOne of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert Burton's astounding compendium, a survey of melancholy in all its myriad forms, has invited nothing but superlatives since its publication in the seventeenth century. Lewellyn Powys called it "the greatest work of prose of the greatest period of English prose writing," while the celebrated surgeon William Osler declared it the greatest of medical treatises. And Dr. Johnson, Boswell