James Boswell (1740-1795)

James Boswell
James Boswell

[James Boswell] is, and he will remain, an astonishing person. His predilection for romantic disguises, his readiness to assume gravely the most unexpected characters, his rippling good nature, his extravagance and folly and weakness, his odd piety, his awful glooms, his alternations of revelry and solemnity, his prodigious literary success and his final melancholy abasement make him the most amusing and the most perplexing figure in our national biography.

Source: C. E. Vulliamy in his 1932 biography James Boswell

 

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