Frases de James Boswell
James Boswell
Fecha de nacimiento: 29. Octubre 1740
Fecha de muerte: 19. Mayo 1795
James Boswell, noveno Laird Auchinleck fue un abogado, y escritor escocés, conocido sobre todo por su biografía de Samuel Johnson.
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Frases James Boswell
„[... ] I observed he [Samuel Johnson] poured a large quantity of it [wine] into a glass, and swallowed it greedily. Everything about his character and manners was forcible and violent; there never was any moderation; many a day did he fast, many a year did he refrain from wine; but when he did eat, it was voraciously; when he did drink wine, it was copiously. He could practise abstinence, but not temperance.“
— James Boswell
(March 1781)
„You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but, I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.“
— James Boswell
Quoting Edwards, an old schoolmate of Johnson's (17 April 1778)
„His mind resembled the vast ampitheatre, the Colisæum at Rome. In the centre stood his judgement, which like a mighty gladiator, combated those apprehensions that, like the wild beasts of the Arena, were all around in cells, ready to be let out upon him. After a conflict, he drives them back into their dens; but not killing them, they were still assailing him.“
— James Boswell
Referring to Johnson (26 October 1769)
„I jumped up on the benches, roared out, "Damn you, you rascals!", hissed and was in the greatest rage. [... ] I hated the English; I wished from my soul that the Union was broke and that we might give them another battle of Bannockburn.“
— James Boswell
On an occasion of mocking a pair of Highland officers, circa 1672, as attributed by Ruaridh Nicoll, "As a Scot, I hate this idea of a neutered nation" http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/apr/22/scotland.devolution, The Observer, 22 April 2007
„[... ] for the Doctor observed, that no man takes upon himself small blemishes without supposing that great abilities are attributed to him; and that, in short, this affectation of candour or modesty was but another kind of indirect self-praise, and had its foundation in vanity.“
— James Boswell
(30 November 1784)
„The best good man, with the worst natur'd muse.“
— James Boswell
Quoting John Wilmot, earl of Rochester's poem "To Lord Buckhurst", (18 August 1773)
„As all who come into the country must obey the King, so all who come into an university must be of the Church.“
— James Boswell
Quoting Samuel Johnson (19 August 1773)
„My lord and Dr Johnson disputed a little, whether the savage or the London shopkeeper had the best existence; his lordship, as usual, preferring the savage.“
— James Boswell
The lord was James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, (21 August 1773)
See similar debate in Angel.
„Then, all censure of a man's self is oblique praise.“
— James Boswell
(25 April 1778)
