Samuel Johnson Quote

In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness,—inspissated gloom.


James Boswell Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) 16 October 1769


In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness,—inspissated gloom.

In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness,—inspissated gloom.

In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness,—inspissated gloom.

In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness,—inspissated gloom.