Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This note revises a note in the Clarendon edition of Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy by investigating the ultimately indeterminate provenance of Burton's Latin phrases concerning irreligious sceptics. It will then propose that this very passage in the Anatomy, together with the work's conclusion, forms a composite source for Samuel Johnson's figure of Pertinax in issue 95 of The Rambler.
Source: Apollo (University of Cambridge)
DOI: 10.17863/cam.123554
Author: Ee, James
Language: English
Subfield: Classics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7108318188
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