Boswell

Famous quotes containing the word boswell:

“My curiosity to see the melancholy spectacle of the executions was so strong that I could not resist it, although I was sensible that I would suffer much from it.... I got upon a scaffold near the fatal tree so that I could clearly see all the dismal scene.... I was most terribly shocked, and thrown into a very deep melancholy.”
—James Boswell (1740–1795)

“My mind was, as it were, strongly impregnated with the Johnsonian aether.”
—James Boswell (1740–1795)

“Here now do I find myself in the very sphere of magnificence. I live with princes, and a court is my home.”
—James Boswell (1740–1795)