Melancholy [ Feelings & Emotions ]
… treatments and cures for melancholy. It is Burton who advises ‘Be not solitary, be not idle’ (Burton, part 3, 432), and Samuel Johnson, himself subject to the severest melancholy, who rewords Burton for the benefit of Boswell: ‘If you are idle, be … some other Talk or Business; ... Suffer them not to be alone, get fit Company to them, or them to it.’ (Baxter 122) 8 . Samuel Johnson, The Letters of Samuel Johnson, ed. Bruce Redford (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), 5 vols, III, p. 201. 9 …
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