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Letter "B" » Boswell
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«Boswell: It is impossible to refute it - Johnson, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, answered, 'I refute it thus»
«BOSWELL: I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it . . . JOHNSON: That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
Boswell, countryman, countrymen, Johnson, Scotland, sir
«Boswell: Is not the Giant's Causeway worth seeing? Johnson: Worth seeing? yes; but not worth going to see»
«Boswell: That, Sir, was great fortitude of mind. Johnson: No, Sir, stark insensibility.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
Boswell, fortitude, insensibility, stark, starkest
«Well, (said he), we had a good talk. BOSWELL: Yes, Sir, you tossed and gored several persons.»
«BOSWELL: Sir, you observed one day . . . that a man is never happy for the present, but when he is drunk. Will you not add, - or when driving rapidly in a post-chaise? JOHNSON: No, Sir, you are driving rapidly from something, or to something.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
Boswell, chaise, Johnson, post chaise, rapidly
«Boswell is the first of biographers»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
| About:
Biography
| Keywords:
biographer, biographers, Boswell
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