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Among those who contributed to place the stamp of a higher character on the labours of the book clubs, one of the most remarkable was Sir Alexander Boswell.
Boswell. The occasion was one to call out his finest powers of personal appearance, and one he long dwelt on with pleasure. This not being an edition of the Congressional Globe it is impossible to give Senator Dilworthy's speech in full.
Holy Living, ch. 3, section I: Rules for Married Persons. Boswell, vii, 288. Perhaps if the venerable Samuel had had the statistics of venereal disease given by adulterous husbands to wives and children he might not have been so sure of his contention. Quoted by Professor Thomas in the American Magazine, July, 1909. See 20 and 21 V., c. 85 Aug. 28. 1857.
"Old Nick," replied Boswell; "and I can tell you there's a pretty fight on between the supporters of the administration and the opposition. Secure in his power, the Grand Master of Hades has been somewhat arbitrary, and he has made the mistake of doing some of his subjects a little too brown.
Davies larnt her in a v'ice as seems as if she wur a-singin' in her sleep, but it's very sweet to hear it. Yesterday I crep' near her when she was a-sittin' down lookin' at herself in that 'ere llyn where the water's so clear, "Knockers' Llyn," as they calls it, where her and me and Rhona Boswell used to go. And I heard her say she was "cussed by Henry's feyther."
See ante, i. 400. For respectable, see ante, iii. 241, note 2. Boswell, in the last of his Hypochondriacks, says: 'I perceive that my essays are not so lively as I expected they would be, but they are more learned. And I beg I may not be charged with excessive arrogance when I venture to say that they contain a considerable portion of original thinking.'London Mag. 1783, p. 124.
Yes, I should like to have him work in the plantations. BOSWELL. 'Sir, do you think him as bad a man as Voltaire? JOHNSON. 'Why, Sir, it is difficult to settle the proportion of iniquity between them.
He and Johnson are now linked together for all eternity; and everybody who takes an interest in Johnson is interested in Boswell too. It ought to be much more than interest, and in all true Johnsonians it is. Without Boswell, we should have respected Johnson, honoured him as a man and a writer, liked him as "a true-born Englishman," but we could not have known him enough to love him.
The storm raged more madly; the desolation grew more appalling; Leslie's brain began to whirl; the solitude was rife with shapes and voices. Above all stood fair Alice Boswell, wreathed in white flames from the wavering cloudy mass of forms the gallant exile plunged anew into the flood, now seething and rushing to meet its prey.
'You have but two subjects, said Johnson to Boswell: 'yourself and myself. I am sick of both. Johnson hated to be talked about, or to have it noticed what he ate or what he had on. For a hundred years now last past he has been more talked about and noticed than anybody else. But Dr. Hill never grew sick of Dr. Johnson. Dr. Strahan in 1785.
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