James Boswell: Mind

James Boswell was Scottish lawyer, diarist and author. Explore interesting quotes on mind.

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“Johnson is dead. Let us go to the next best — there is nobody; no man can be said to put you in mind of Johnson.”

James Boswell book The Life of Samuel Johnson

Quoting William Gerard Hamilton (1784)
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791)

“Boswell is pleasant and gay,
For frolic by nature designed;
He heedlessly rattles away
When company is to his mind.”

In a poem about himself, in "Biographic Sketches" in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal Vol. IV (1836). p. 341

“His mind resembled the vast ampitheatre, the Colisæum at Rome. In the centre stood his judgement, which like a mighty gladiator, combated those apprehensions that, like the wild beasts of the Arena, were all around in cells, ready to be let out upon him. After a conflict, he drives them back into their dens; but not killing them, they were still assailing him.”

James Boswell book The Life of Samuel Johnson

Referring to Johnson (26 October 1769)
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791)

“Such groundless fears will arise in the mind, before it has resumed its vigour after sleep!”

1 September 1773
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1785)