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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

2122 Robert Burton 1577-1640 John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:2122
AUTHOR:Robert Burton (1577–1640)
QUOTATION:Can build castles in the air. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 1, Subsect. 3.
 
Note 1.
”Castles in the air,”—Montaigne, Sir Philip Sidney, Massinger, Sir Thomas Browne, Giles Fletcher, George Herbert, Dean Swift, Broome, Fielding, Cibber, Churchill, Shenstone, and Lloyd. [back]