Example sentences for: boswell

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

  • John Burke (Alabama) reviews and analyzes other contemporary accounts and finds that Boswell's is not only the most accurate but that he uses it to demonstrate Johnson's character, whereas others were merely retailing literary gossip.

  • (He has another collection, Boswell's Clap & Other Essays , from the same publisher(s), which is as good as this one.)

  • 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!"

  • These were only transiently effective because Boswell was less than candid to his mentor about his compulsive drinking and whoring.

  • Both Boswell and Johnson wrote readable and lucid prose, and scholars who gloss their texts cannot resist their influence, which is all for the good.


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