Author: James Boswell

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• Hor. Horace (1)
  • IN: Dorando (1767) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Lydorum quidquid Etruscos Incoluit fines, nemo generosior est te
    FROM: Satires, (-33), Book, Italy

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• Vladimir Nabokov (2)
  • IN: Pale Fire (1962) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: This reminds me of the ludicrous account he have Mr Langston, of the despicable state of a young gentleman of good family. 'Sir, when I heard of him last, he was running about town shooting cats.' And then in a sort of kindly reverie, he bethought himself of his own favorite cat, and said, 'But Hodge shan't be shot: no, no, Hodge shall not be shot.'
    FROM: The Life of Dr Samuel Johnson, (1791), Book, UK
• Stephen Jarvis (1)
  • IN: Death and Mr Pickwick (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: There is perhaps every thing of consequence a secret history which it would be amusing to know, could we have it authentically communicated.
    FROM: Boswell's Life of Johnson, (1791), Book, UK