James Boswell
James Boswell
James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck, was a Scottish biographer and diarist, born in Edinburgh. He is best known for the biography he wrote of one of his contemporaries, the English literary figure Samuel Johnson, which the modern Johnsonian critic Harold Bloom has claimed is the greatest biography written in the English language...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth29 October 1740
leafs infusion johnson
I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf than did Johnson.
world delight very-good
If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.
reality
We must take our friends as they are.
book way chance
He had no settled plan of life, nor looked forward at all, but merely lived from day to day. Yet he read a great deal in a desultory manner, without any scheme of study, as chance threw books in his way, and inclination directed him through them.