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Boswellian
Boswellian, a. and n. (bɒzˈwɛlɪən) Also Boswellean. [f. Boswell, the name of Dr. Johnson's friend and biographer, + -ian.] A. adj. Resembling Boswell as a biographer.1843 Carlyle Past & Pr. II. i. 54 The ‘Chronicle’, or private Boswellean Notebook, of Jocelin. 1855 Rambler III. 485 The average Engli... Oxford English Dictionary
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James Boswell
In fiction and popular culture Boswell's surname has passed into the English language as a term (Boswell, Boswellian, Boswellism) for a constant companion The Boswellian Hero. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1979. . Finlayson, Iain. The Moth and the Candle. A Life of James Boswell. wikipedia.org
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Boswell
Boswell (ˈbɒzwɛl) The name of James Boswell (see Boswellian a.), used allusively for: a constant companion or attendant who witnesses and records what a person does.1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat Breakf.-Table (sub-title), Every man his own Boswell. 1891 A. Conan Doyle Adv. Sherlock Holmes (1892) 6, ‘I ... Oxford English Dictionary
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William C. Dowling
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1984) Language and Logos in Boswell's Life of Johnson (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1981) The Boswellian wikipedia.org
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lues Boswelliana
‖ lues Boswelliana (ˈl(j)uːiːz bɒzwɛlɪˈeɪnə, -ˈɑːnə) [f. lues: cf. Boswellian a., -iana.] A disease of admiration; a biographer's tendency to magnify his subject.1834 Macaulay in Edin. Rev. Jan. 508 Biographers, translators, editors,—all, in short, who employ themselves in illustrating the lives or ... Oxford English Dictionary
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Sir John Pollock, 4th Baronet
War and Revolution in Russia (1918), London, Constable & Co Ltd The Bolshevik Adventure (1919), London, Constable & Co Ltd Anatole France himself: a Boswellian wikipedia.org
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Boswellize
ˈBoswellize, v. 1. intr. To write in Boswell's style; ˈBoswellizing vbl. n.1838 Fraser's Mag. XVII. 488 Boswellizing became in fashion. 1856 R. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. 7 But I have been Boswellizing to you about the past history of these friends of mine. 2. trans. To treat in the Boswellian manner... Oxford English Dictionary
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Deer Park Tavern
Founders, "in the good old Boswellian tradition", included Carling, LePera, Jordan, Lafferty, Baldwin, Hoffner, Baird, Skinner, deBrabender and Wilson. wikipedia.org
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Sydney Castle Roberts
University Press, 1919 A History of the Cambridge University Press 1521–1921; Cambridge University Press, 1921 Doctor Johnson In Cambridge: Essays In Boswellian wikipedia.org
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Marvin Kitman
The New York Times praised Kitman for doing Boswellian amounts of research and constructing a well-written narrative, but ultimately concluded that the wikipedia.org
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Australia–Canada relations
Although Pearson was amused by Casey's "old Etonian, striped-pants manner", he was charmed and impressed by the Australian's "almost Boswellian ingenuousness wikipedia.org
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