| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 2122 |
| AUTHOR: | Robert Burton (15771640) |
| QUOTATION: | Can build castles in the air. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 1, Subsect. 3. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| | 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] |
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