James Boswell Quotes - Page 4

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• I went to my father's at night. He spoke of poor John [Boswell's brother] with disgust. I was shocked and said, "He's your son, and God made him." He answered very harshly, "If my sons are idiots, can I help it?

  James Boswell

  Brother, Father, Son

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• I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of that fragrant leaf than Johnson.

  James Boswell

  Infusion, Leafs, Johnson

  "Life of Johnson, Book I".

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• There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation.

  James Boswell

  Prejudice, Strange, Quotations

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• Boswell, when he speaks of his Life of Johnson, calls it my magnum opus, but it may more properly be called his opera, for it is truly a composition founded on a true story, in which there is a hero with a number of subordinate characters, and an alternate succession of recitative and airs of various tone and effect, all however in delightful animation.

  James Boswell

  Hero, Character, Air

  James Boswell, Marlies K. Danziger (1989). “Boswell, the great biographer, 1789-1795”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• I make it a kind of pious rule to go to every funeral to which I am invited, both as I wish to pay a proper respect to the dead, unless their characters have been bad, and as I would wish to have the funeral of my own near relations or of myself well attended.

  James Boswell

  Death, Character, Funeral

  James Boswell (2001). “Boswell's Edinburgh Journals 1767-1786”, Mercat Press Books

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