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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799Sir Henry Ellis to John Wilson Croker, from the British Museum, 29 October 1829: 'I understand from Mr. Murray that you are engaged [as editor] upon a "Life of Dr. Joh...Samuel Johnson Horace  Print: Book
1700-1799'what he read during these two years [between Stourbridge school and Oxford] , he told me, was not works of mere amusement, "not voyages and travels, but all literature, ...Samuel Johnson Anacreon Print: Book
1700-1799'what he read during these two years [between Stourbridge school and Oxford] , he told me, was not works of mere amusement, "not voyages and travels, but all literature, ...Samuel Johnson Hesiod Print: Book
1700-1799'His figure and manner appeared strange to them [the company on the night of Johnson's arrival in Oxford]; but he behaved modestly, and sat silent, till upon something wh...Samuel Johnson Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius Print: Book
1700-1799'"The church in Lichfield, in which we had a seat, wanted reparation, so I was to go and find a seat in other churches; and having bad eyes, and being awkward about this,...Samuel Johnson  Print: Book
1700-1799'He appears, from his early notes or memorandums in my possession, to have at various times attempted, or at least planned, a methodical course of study, according to com...Samuel Johnson Theocritus Print: Book
1700-1799'He [Johnson] told me that Bacon was a favourite authour with him; but he had never read his works till he was compiling the "English Dictionary", in which, he said, I mi...Samuel Johnson Francis Bacon Print: Book
1700-1799'He [Johnson] was very silent this evening ; and read in a variety of books ; suddenly throwing down one, and taking up another.' Samuel Johnson  Print: Book
1700-1799'The Bishop said, it appeared from Horace's writings that he was a cheerful contented man. Johnson. "We have no reason to believe that, my Lord. Are we to think Pope was ...Samuel Johnson Edward Young Print: Book
1700-1799'After wandering about in a kind of pleasing distraction for some time, I got into a corner, with Johnson, Garrick, and Harris. GARRICK: (to Harris.) "Pray, Sir, have you...Samuel Johnson Aeschylus Print: Book
1700-1799'JOHNSON. "Sir William Temple was the first writer who gave cadence to English prose. Before his time they were careless of arrangement, and did not mind whether a senten...Samuel Johnson Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Print: Book
1700-1799'JOHNSON. "Sir William Temple was the first writer who gave cadence to English prose. Before his time they were careless of arrangement, and did not mind whether a senten...Samuel Johnson William Temple Print: Book
1700-1799'He [Johnson] told us, that he had given Mrs. Montagu a catalogue of all Daniel Defoe's works of imagination; most, if not all of which, as well as of his other works, he...Samuel Johnson Daniel Defoe Print: Book
1700-1799'He begged of General Paoli to repeat one of the introductory stanzas of the first book of Tasso's "Jerusalem", which he did, and then Johnson found fault with the simile...Samuel Johnson Lucretius Print: Book
1700-1799'He begged of General Paoli to repeat one of the introductory stanzas of the first book of Tasso's "Jerusalem", which he did, and then Johnson found fault with the simile...Samuel Johnson Homer Print: Book
'He [Johnson] said, "I have been reading Lord Kames's 'Sketches of the History of Man'. In treating of severity of punishment, he mentions that of Madame Lapouchin, in Ru...Samuel Johnson Jean Chappe d'Auteroche Print: Book
'Having regretted to him that I had learnt little Greek, as is too generally the case in Scotland; that I had for a long time hardly applied at all to the study of that n...Samuel Johnson Hesiod Print: Book
'[from the 1780 Johnsoniana passed to boswell by Bennet Langton] Theocritus is not deserving of very high respect as a writer; as to the pastoral part, Virgil is very evi...Samuel Johnson Theocritus Print: Book
'[from the 1780 Johnsoniana passed to Boswell by Bennet Langton] 'Callimachus is a writer of little excellence. The chief thing to be learned from him is his account of R...Samuel Johnson Callimachus Print: Book
1700-1799'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Spanish plays, being wildly and improbably farcical, would please children here, as children are ent...Samuel Johnson Homer Print: Book


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