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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'When I talked of our [the Scots'] advancement in literature, "Sir, (said he,) you have learnt a little from us, and you think yourselves very great men. Hume would never...Samuel Johnson Henry Home, Lord KamesElements of CriticismPrint: Book
1700-1799'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that he has taught us any thing; but he has told us old thin...Samuel Johnson Henry Home, Lord KamesElements of CriticismPrint: 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 Henry Home, Lord KamesSketches of the History of ManPrint: Book
'Looking at Messrs. Dilly's splendid edition of Lord Chesterfield's miscellaneous works, he laughed, and said, "Here now are two speeches ascribed to him, both of which w...Samuel Johnson Henry Home, Lord KamesSketches of the History of ManPrint: Book
1700-1799'[present at tea on June 12th was] the Reverend Herbert Croft, who, I am afraid, was somewhat mortified by Dr. Johnson's not being highly pleased with some "Family Discou...Samuel Johnson Herbert Croft[Family Discourses]Print: Book
1700-1799'When I shewed him [Johnson] his Character next day - for he would see it; he said it was a very fine Piece of Writing; and that I had improved upon [italics] Young [end ...Samuel Johnson Hester Lynch Thrale[MS 'character' of Johnson]Manuscript: Unknown
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' [publisher Mr Strahan] received from Johnson on Christmas-eve, a note in which was the following paragraph: "I have read over Dr. Blair's first sermon with more tha...Samuel Johnson Hugh Blair[a sermon]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799' [letter from Johnson to Boswell] Dr. Blair is printing some sermons. If they are all like the first, which I have read, they are [italics] sermones aurei, ac auro magis...Samuel Johnson Hugh Blair[A Sermon]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799' [letter from Johnson to Boswell] Please to return Dr. Blair thanks for his sermons. The Scotch write English wonderfully well.'Samuel Johnson Hugh BlairSermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799' [Johnson] praised Blair's sermons: "Yet", said he, (willing to let us see he was aware that fashionable fame, however deserved, is not always the most lasting,) "perhap...Samuel Johnson Hugh BlairSermonsPrint: Book
'He [Johnson] said, "I read yesterday Dr. Blair's sermon on Devotion, from the text 'Cornelius, a devout man.' His doctrine is the best limited, the best expressed: there...Samuel Johnson Hugh Blair[Sermon on Devotion]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'Sir Joshua Reynolds praised "Mudge's Sermons". JOHNSON. "'Mudge's Sermons' are good, but not practical. He grasps more sense than he can hold; he takes more corn than he...Samuel Johnson Hugh BlairSermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799'[having been searching for evidence of the truth of Christianity, Johnson] recollecting a Book he had once picked up in the Shop, & again thrown by, entitled De Veritate...Samuel Johnson Hugo GrotiusDe veritate religionis ChristianaePrint: Book
1700-1799'Th authours of the essays in prose [in "Miscellanies" published by Elizabeth Harrison] seem generally to have imitated or tried to imitate, the copiousness and luxurianc...Samuel Johnson Isaac Watts[unknown]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 Isaac Watts[Poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'[letter from Boswell, to Johnson] It gives me much pleasure to hear that a republication of "Isaac Walton's Lives" is intended. You have been in a mistake in thinking th...Samuel Johnson Izaak WaltonLives of Dr John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr Richa...Print: Book
1700-1799'He talked of Isaac Walton's "Lives", which was one of his most favourite books. Dr. Donne's "Life", he said, was the most perfect of them'. Samuel Johnson Izaak WaltonLives of Dr John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr Richa...Print: Book
1700-1799'He seriously entertained the thought of translating "Thuanus". He often talked to me on the subject; and once, in particular, when I was rather wishing that he would fav...Samuel Johnson Jacques-Auguste de Thou Print: Book
1700-1799'Beattie's book is, I believe, every day more liked; at least, I like it more as I look more upon it.'Samuel Johnson James BeattieMinstrel, The; or, The Progress of GeniusPrint: Book


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