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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'On Sunday, April 12, I found him at home before dinner; Dr. Dodd's poem entitled "Thoughts in Prison" was lying upon his table. This appearing to me an extraordinary eff...Samuel Johnson William DoddThoughts in Prison Print: Book
1700-1799'Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, "he was a blockhead :" and upon my expressing my astonishment at so strange an assertion, he said, "What I mean by his being...Samuel Johnson Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1700-1799'JOHNSON. "He's [Pennant] a [italics] Whig [end italics], Sir; a [italics]sad dog [end italics]. (smiling at his own violent expressions, merely for [italics] political [...Samuel Johnson Thomas PennantTour in Scotland in 1769Print: Book
1700-1799'Books of Travels having been mentioned, Johnson praised Pennant very highly, as he did at Dunvegan, in the Isle of Sky. Dr. Percy, knowing himself to be the heir male of...Samuel Johnson Thomas PennantTour in Scotland in 1769, APrint: Book
1700-1799'Mr. Seward mentioned to us the observations which he had made upon the strata of earth in volcanoes, from which it appeared, that they were so very different in depth at...Samuel Johnson Patrick BrydoneTour Through Sicily and Malta. In A Series of Lett...Print: Book
1700-1799'Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company. Johnson. "I have been reading Twiss's 'Travels in Spain', which are just come out. They are as go...Samuel Johnson Patrick BrydoneTour Through Sicily and Malta: In a Series of Lett...Print: Book
'We had a quiet comfortable meeting at Mr. Dilly's; nobody there but ourselves. Mr. Dilly mentioned somebody having wished that Milton's "Tractate on Education" should be...Samuel Johnson John MiltonTractate: Of Education Print: Pamphlet
1700-1799'Johnson praised the Earl of Carlisle's Poems, which his Lordship had published with his name, as not disdaining to be a candidate for literary fame. My friend was of opi...Samuel Johnson Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of CarlisleTragedies and PoemsPrint: Book
1700-1799'He said of Goldsmith's "Traveller," which had been published in my absence, "There has not been so fine a poem since Pope's time".' Samuel Johnson Oliver GoldsmithTraveller, ThePrint: Unknown
1700-1799' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Deserted Village,' were it not sometimes too much the ec...Samuel Johnson Oliver GoldsmithTraveller, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'Langton. "There is not one bad line in that poem [Goldsmith's 'The Traveller']— no one of Dryden's careless verses." Sir Joshua. "I was glad to hear Charles Fox say, it ...Samuel Johnson Oliver GoldsmithTraveller, ThePrint: Unknown
1700-1799'Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company. Johnson. "I have been reading Twiss's 'Travels in Spain', which are just come out. They are as go...Samuel Johnson John George KeyslerTravels through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzer...Print: Book
1700-1799'Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company. Johnson. "I have been reading Twiss's 'Travels in Spain', which are just come out. They are as go...Samuel Johnson Henri Marie Ducrotay de BlainvilleTravels through Holland, Germany and Switzerland, ...Print: Book
1700-1799'Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company. Johnson. "I have been reading Twiss's 'Travels in Spain', which are just come out. They are as go...Samuel Johnson Richard TwissTravels through Portugal and Spain Print: Book
1700-1799'The "Odes to Obscurity and Oblivion," in ridicule of "cool Mason and warm Gray", being mentioned, Johnson said, "They are Colman's best things." [Boswell reports a conve...Samuel Johnson George ColmanTwo Odes: To Obscurity and To OblivionPrint: Book
1700-1799'Still [in his last days] his love of literature did not fail. A very few days before his death he transmitted to his friend Mr. John Nichols, a list of the authours of t...Samuel Johnson Universal history, from the earliest account of ti...Print: Book
'[Johnson said] "I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield", which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: 'I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing...Samuel Johnson Oliver GoldsmithVicar of WakefieldManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Dr. Mayo having asked Johnson's opinion of Soame Jenyns's "View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion";--JOHNSON. "I think it a pretty book; not very theolo...Samuel Johnson Soame JenynsView of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Rel...Print: Book
1700-1799'Soon after this time I had an opportunity of seeing, by means of one of his friends, a proof that his talents, as well as his obliging service to authours, were ready as...Samuel Johnson George CrabbeVillage, TheManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I talked to him [Johnson] of Forster's "Voyage to the South Seas", which pleased me; but I found he did not like it. "Sir, (said he,) there is a great affectation of fin...Samuel Johnson George ForsterVoyage Round the World in his Britannic Majesty's ...Print: Book


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