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Boswell's most prominent display of support for slavery was his 1791 poem "No Abolition of Slavery; or the Universal Empire of Love", which lampooned Clarkson, Wilberforce and Pitt. The poem also supports the common suggestion of the pro-slavery movement, that the slaves actually enjoyed their lot: "The cheerful gang! – the negroes see ...
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Who was James Boswell? He was a perpetual drunk, a degenerate gambler, a sex addict, whoremonger, exhibitionist, and rapist. He gave his wife an STD he caught from a prostitute. Selfish, servile and self-indulgent, lazy and lecherous, vain, proud, obsessed with his aristocratic status, yet with no sense of propriety whatsoever, he frequently fantas...
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. was an instant sensation. While the works of Johnson were quickly forgotten,2his biography has never been out of print in the 229 years since its initial publication. It went through 41 editions just in the 19th century. Burke told King George III that he had never read anything more entertaining. Coleridge said "i...
The story of Boswell is basically the plot of Amadeus, with the role of Salieri being played by Macaulay, by Carlyle, by me, and—perhaps even by yourself, dear reader. The line between admiration, envy, and resentment is thin, and crossing it is easier when the subject is a scoundrel. But if Bozzy could set aside resentment for genuine reverence, p...
- Alvaro de Menard
- 2020
Boswell, a self-described “gentleman of ancient blood,” was a lawyer and a writer who knew Johnson well for more than 20 years. He was also a kind of genius. His biography of his friend and...
May 16, 2013 · James Boswell did not meet Dr Johnson, compiler of the first great English Dictionary and arbiter of literary taste, by chance. The young Scot was "super-intelligent, had great literary taste and...
Jun 10, 2015 · The 18th-century biographer James Boswell is the central character of a new exploration of the Enlightenment by Robert Zaretsky, who pulls together Boswell's writings with those of his subjects...
- Andrew O'hagan
The young earl of Eglintoun took him to Newmarket and introduced him into the society of "the great, the gay and the ingenious." He wrote a poem called "The Cub at Newmarket," published by Dodsley in 1762, and had visions of entering the Guards.
The contour of Boswell’s literary career reflects his divided allegiance between his pride in his ancient Scottish heritage and love of Highland characteristics, on the one hand, and his...
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