budgel

Updated: July 7, 2025

When Eustace Budgel was walking down to the Thames, determined to drown himself, he might, if he pleased, without any apprehension of danger, have turned aside, and first set fire to St. James's palace. On Tuesday, April 27, Mr. Beauclerk and I called on him in the morning.

James Boswell - Boswell's Life of Johnson : Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood