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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'Such was his sensibility, and so much was he affected by pathetick poetry, that, when he was reading Dr. Beattie's "Hermit" in my presence, it brought tears into his eye...Samuel Johnson James BeattieHermit, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] 'I have just advanced so far towards recovery as to read a pamphlet; and you may reasonably suppose that the first pamphlet which I read...Samuel Johnson James BoswellLetter to the People of Scotland on the Present St...Print: Pamphlet
'[letter from Johnson to Boswell] 'The bearer of this is Dr. Dunbar, of Aberdeen, who has written and published a very ingenious book'.Samuel Johnson James DunbarEssays on the History of Mankind in Rude and Culti...Print: Book
1700-1799'He spoke slightingly of Dyer's "Fleece".— "The subject, Sir, cannot be made poetical. How can a man write poetically of serges and druggets ? Yet you will hear many peop...Samuel Johnson James GraingerSugar Cane, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'He spoke slightingly of Dyer's "Fleece".— "The subject, Sir, cannot be made poetical. How can a man write poetically of serges and druggets ? Yet you will hear many peop...Samuel Johnson James GraingerPoetical translation of the elegies of Tibullus, A...Print: Book
1700-1799'He praised Grainger's "Ode on Solitude", in Dodsley's "Collection", and repeated, with great energy, the exordium:- "O Solitude, romantick maid, Whether by nodding...Samuel Johnson James Grainger'Ode on Solitude'Print: Book
1700-1799'Doctor Grainger, Author of the fine Ode to Solitude printed in Dodsley's Miscellanies wrote a poem while he was in the West Indies and called it the Sugar Cane; it was s...Samuel Johnson James GraingerSugar Cane, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'[letter from Boswell to Johnson] I have, since I saw you, read every word of Granger's "Biographical History". It has entertained me exceedingly, and I do not think him ...Samuel Johnson James GrangerBiographical History of England from Egbert the Gr...Print: Book
1700-1799'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] As I recollect, Hammond introduces a hag or witch into one of his love elegies, where the effect is ...Samuel Johnson James HammondLove ElegiesPrint: Book
1700-1799'of James Harris Dedication to his Hermes he said that tho' but 14 Lines long, there were 6 Grammatical faults in it'. Samuel Johnson James Harris[Dedication in] Hermes: or, a Philosophical Inquir...Print: Book
1850-1899'At this time the controversy concerning the pieces published by Mr James Macpherson as translations of [italics] Ossian [end italics], was at its height. Johnson had all...Samuel Johnson James MacphersonFragments of Ancient Poetry collected in the Highl...Print: Book
1700-1799'The poem of "Fingal", he said, was a mere unconnected rhapsody, a tiresome repetition of the same images. "In vain shall we look for the [italics] lucidus ordo [end ital...Samuel Johnson James MacPherson'Fingal: An Ancient Epic Poem' [from Poems of Ossi...Print: Book
1700-1799'Johnson thought the poems published as translations from Ossian had so little merit, that he said, 'Sir, a man might write such stuff for ever, if he would [italics]aban...Samuel Johnson James Macpherson[Ossian poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'On Thursday, July 28, we again supped in private at the Turk's Head coffee-house. Johnson. "Swift has a higher reputation than he deserves. His excellence is strong sens...Samuel Johnson James Thomson[poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'He allowed high praise to Thomson, as a poet; but when one of the company said he was also a very good man, our moralist contested this with very great warmth, accusing ...Samuel Johnson James Thomson[poetry]Print: Book
1700-1799'He allowed high praise to Thomson, as a poet; but when one of the company said he was also a very good man, our moralist contested this with very great warmth, accusing ...Samuel Johnson James Thomson[letters to his sisters and accounts by them of hi...Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'Dr. Johnson said, "Thomson had a true poetical genius, the power of viewing every thing in a poetical light. His fault is such a cloud of words sometimes, that the sense...Samuel Johnson James Thomson[Poems]Print: Book
'[from Bennet Langton's collection of 1780 Johnsoniana, passed to Boswell] 'Talking of the "Farce of High Life below Stairs", he said, "Here is a Farce, which is really v...Samuel Johnson James TownleyHigh Life Below StairsPrint: Book
1700-1799'He [Johnson] attacked Lord Monboddo's strange speculation on the primitive state of human nature; observing, "Sir, it is all conjecture about a thing useless, even were ...Samuel Johnson James Burnett, Lord MonboddoOf the Origin and Progress of LanguagePrint: Book
1700-1799'JOHNSON. "O! Mr. Dilly-you must know that an English Benedictine Monk at Paris has translated "The Duke of Berwick's Memoirs", from the original French, and has sent the...Samuel Johnson James Fitzjames, 1st Duke of BerwickMemoirs of the Marshall Duke of BerwickManuscript: Unknown


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