Boswell the Biographer

by George Mallory

But e'en the specks of character pourtray'd:

We see the Rambler with fastidious smile...."[¹⁵]

[1:] Autobiography, Letters, &c., of Mrs. Piozzi, ii, 403.

[2:] Nichols' Illustrations, vii, 313.

[3:] Henley, in Views and Reviews, speaks of Boswell as an artist.

[4:] Fitzgerald and Birkbeck Hill both say something of this.

[5:] I use this term not in a particular technical sense (as applied to a school of French painters) but in a general sense, of all art that neglects details for the sake of general effect.

[6:] The italics are mine.

[7:] Life of Johnson, ii. 262, n. 2.

[8:] Miss Burney's Diary, iv, 478.