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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] There has appeared lately in the papers an account of a boat overset between Mull and Ulva, in which many passengers were lost, and amo...Samuel Johnson [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'In his [Johnson's] manuscript diary of this year, there is the following entry: "Nov. 27. Advent Sunday. I considered that this day, being the beginning of the eccles...Samuel Johnson [n/a][Greek Testaments]Print: Book
1700-1799'Oct. 24. Tuesday. We visited the King's library.—I saw the "Speculum humanae Salvationis", rudely printed with ink, sometimes pale, sometimes black; part supposed to be ...Samuel Johnson [n/a]Durandi Sanctuarium Print: Book
1700-1799'I have read the Italian - nothing in it is well' Samuel Johnson [unknown]['The Italian' - unknown text]Unknown
1700-1799'The authorities [for the definitions in Johnson's Dictionary] were copied from the books themselves, in which he had marked the passages with a black lead pencil, the tr...Samuel Johnson [unknown][sources for his Dictionary]Print: Book
1700-1799'Here was an excellent library; particularly, a valuable collection of books in Northern literature, with which Johnson was often very busy. One day Mr Wise read to us a ...Samuel Johnson [unknown][books of Northern literature]Print: Book
1700-1799'[Johnson said] "Sir, in my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now. My judgment, to be s...Samuel Johnson [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'His Majesty having observed to him that he supposed he must have read a great deal; Johnson answered, that he thought more than he read; that he had read a great deal in...Samuel Johnson [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'His Majesty then talked of the controversy between Warburton and Lowth, which he seemed to have read, and asked Johnson what he thought of it. Johnson answered, "Warburt...Samuel Johnson [unknown][Lowth-Warburton controversy]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'Many years ago, when I used to read in the library of your College, I promised to recompence the college for that permission, by adding to their books a Baskerville's 'V...Samuel Johnson [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'[from an account by Dr Maxwell, an Irish london-based priest friend of Johnson] Speaking of Mr. Harte, Canon of Windsor, and writer of "The History of Gustavus Adolphus"...Samuel Johnson [unknown]['black letter', ie gothic text books - medieval t...Print: Book
1700-1799'Speaking of the French novels, compared with Richardson's, he said, they might be pretty baubles, but a wren was not an eagle'. [account by Dr Maxwell, an Irish London p...Samuel Johnson [unknown][French novels]Print: Book
1700-1799'I then reminded him of the schoolmaster's cause [a legal case on corporal punisment that Boswell was defending], and proposed to read to him the printed papers concernin...Samuel Johnson [unknown][legal case papers]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'The Swede [Mr Kristrom] went away, and Mr. Johnson continued his reading of the papers. I said, "I am afraid, Sir, it is troublesome to you." "Why, Sir (said he), I do n...Samuel Johnson [unknown][legal case papers]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'Mr. Elphinston talked of a new book that was much admired, and asked Dr. Johnson if he had read it. Johnson. "I have looked into it." "What (said Elphinston), have you n...Samuel Johnson [unknown][a recently published book]Print: Book
1700-1799'Lady Miller's collection of verses by fashionable people, which were put into her Vase at Batheaston Villa, near Bath, in competition for honorary prizes, being mentione...Samuel Johnson [unknown][verses deposited in Lady Miller's vase]Print: Book
1700-1799'He [Johnson] was for a considerable time occupied in reading "Memoires de Fontenelle" leaning and swinging upon the low gate into the court, without his hat.' Samuel Johnson abbe TrubletMémoires pour servir a l'histoire de la vie et des...Print: Book
1700-1799'[Dr Johnson] expressed his disapprobation of Dr. Hurd, for having published a mutilated edition under the title of "Select Works of Abraham Cowley". Mr. Murphy thought i...Samuel Johnson Abraham CowleySelected WorksPrint: Book
1700-1799'Rose [in a debate about the relative worth of Scottish and English writers] to make sure of the Victory - named Ferguson on Civil Society: I do not says Johnson perceive...Samuel Johnson Adam FergusonEssay on the History of Civil SocietyPrint: Book
1700-1799'There is an old English and Latin book of poems by Barclay, called "The Ship of Fools"; at the end of which are a number of [italics] Eglogues [end italics]; so he write...Samuel Johnson Alexander BarclayShip of Fools, ThePrint: Book


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