Boswelliana

"Boswelliana," printed for the Philobiblion Society by Mr. Milnes, led, in 1857, to a revisal of the harsh sentence passed on one whom the most formidable of his censors, Lord Macaulay, has declared to be not less decidedly the first of biographers, than Homer is the first of heroic poets, Shakspeare the first of dramatists, or Demosthenes the first of orators.

Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings Hester Lynch Piozzi 1781

[23] In Boswelliana, p. 220, a brief account is given of his life, which was not altogether uneventful.

Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

The Editor of Boswelliana says (p. 186) that 'these three literary executors did not meet, and the entire business of the trust was administered by Sir W. Forbes, who appointed as his law-agent, Robert Boswell, cousin-german of the deceased.

Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

The following anecdote in Boswelliana (p. 274) is not given in the

Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

[119] In Boswelliana (p. 323) are recorded two more of Langton's Anecdotes.

Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

[1326] According to Boswell's record in Boswelliana, p. 273, two sayings are here united.

Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

Rogers's Boswelliana, p. [484] Macleod, the Laird of Rasay.

Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

These are some Boswelliana of Sydney; not very clerical, you will say, but indescribably amusing to the hearers, whatever the readers may think of them.

Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1 George Otto Trevelyan 1883

Macaulay has given to the usual complaint which distorts the vision of most biographers the name of lues Boswelliana.

Samuel Johnson Leslie, Stephen 1878

Macaulay has given to the usual complaint which distorts the vision of most biographers the name of _lues Boswelliana_.

Samuel Johnson Leslie Stephen 1868