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1. • Boswell suffered from recurrent depressions

     • Boswell suffered from recurrent depressions. He had a strict and emotionally deprived childhood. He was unhappy at school and suffered from nightmares and shyness. He was afflicted by a nervous illness in 1752 and was sent to recover at Moffat spa, in Dumfries and Galloway.
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   Was Boswell a depressive person?

   • Boswell was not depressive by nature. On the contrary, most of the time he was high-spirited and boisterous: leaping up onto the back of coaches to hitch a ride, making romantic pledges on the hilt of his sword, writing extravagant letters, telling absurd stories, and roaring through the streets in search of adventure.

   'Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson'

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   What did Boswell say about being with a person?

   • ‘I was struck with the justice of this observation. To be with those of whom a person, whose mind is wavering and dejected, stands in awe, represses and composes an uneasy tumult of spirits, and consoles him with the contemplation of something steady, and at least comparatively great’ ( Boswell 1987 reprint: p. 857).

   Talking about madness and melancholy: Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson

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   Was Boswell a great poet?

   • The rest of his verse is of a similar quality; naturally he considered himself a great poet. Boswell combined his terrible behavior with a complete lack of shame, faithfully reporting every transgression, every moronic ejaculation, every faux pas.

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   What does Johnson say to Boswell?

   • Johnson replies: ‘Sir, (said he,) consider how foolish you would think it in them to be apprehensive that you are ill’. Boswell is temporarily comforted, but finds a flaw in Johnson's argument. He observes: ‘This sudden turn relieved me for the moment; but I afterwards perceived it to be an ingenious fallacy.

   Talking about madness and melancholy: Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson

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   Who was Alexander Boswell?

   • Boswell was born in Blair's Land on the east side of Parliament Close behind St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh on 29 October 1740 (N.S.). He was the eldest son of a judge, Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck, and his wife Euphemia Erskine. As the eldest son, he was heir to his family's estate of Auchinleck in Ayrshire.

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   Oct 22, 2020 · Boswell had limited material to work with, but what he doesn't capture in fact, he captures in feeling: an entire life is contained in this book: love and friendship, taverns and work, the glory of success and recognition, the depressive bouts of failure and penury, the inevitable tortures of aging and death.

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   Midway through his studies, he suffered an episode of serious depression but recovered fully. Boswell had swarthy skin, black hair and dark eyes; he was of average height, and he tended to plumpness. His appearance was said to be alert and masculine.

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   Against melancholy he recommended constant occupation of mind, a great deal of exercise, moderation in eating and drinking, and especially to shun drinking at night. He said melancholy people were apt to fly to intemperance for relief, but that it sunk them much deeper in misery.

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   Aug 19, 2001 · There is no doubt that Boswell's depression was real, but no doubt too that he felt a perverse satisfaction and pride in his gloom.

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   Oct 25, 2024 · In the depression that ensued he had recurring nightmares of being hanged. He was discouraged to find that dissipation brought him more happiness than chastity and hard work, and he soon lapsed into his former promiscuity.

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   James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (1740–1795), advocate, essayist (The Hypochondriak), diarist and biographer, is best known for The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), which is considered to be the greatest biography in English. Boswell suffered from recurrent depressions.

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   May 16, 2013 · "He writes about sex, depression, drink, rows with his father, the drudgery of law, the great spectacle of life in London and in Edinburgh. "It is slightly like reading Catcher in the Rye." As...