Example sentences for: boswell

How can you use “boswell” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • deals with Boswell's episodes of melancholia, a trait he shared with Johnson, and his essays on it in The Hypochondriack .

  • The monograph concludes with a chapter on therapeutic friendship, dealing chiefly with Johnson's attempts to steer Boswell into a more sensible way of life and behavior.

  • .. of the dichotomy in Boswell's portrayal of his subject.

  • Marlies Danziger (Hunter) takes up the question of Boswell's authorial comments that are interspersed throughout the Life . Certainly he intrudes himself into the scenes, sometimes for sheer self-display, but also for a variety of other purposes, all of which are carefully examined.

  • When Boswell boasted about his country's landscape, saying it had many noble prospects, Johnson replied: "The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England!"


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