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
James Boswell quotes about
melancholy silent unhappiness
Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.
drinking play criticism
We had some port, and drank damnation to the play and eternal remorse to the author.
leafs infusion johnson
I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf than did Johnson.