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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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 BiblePrint: 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 anon.Speculum humanae SalvationisPrint: 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'Oct. 25. Wednesday. I went with the Prior to St. Cloud, to see Dr. Hooke.—We walked round the palace, and had some talk.—I dined with our whole company at the Monastery....Samuel Johnson Giovanni Boccacio[tales from the 'Decameron']Print: Book
1700-1799'Oct. 25. Wednesday. I went with the Prior to St. Cloud, to see Dr. Hooke.—We walked round the palace, and had some talk.—I dined with our whole company at the Monastery....Samuel Johnson Petrarch[unknown oration]Print: Book
1700-1799'Oct. 25. Wednesday. I went with the Prior to St. Cloud, to see Dr. Hooke.—We walked round the palace, and had some talk.—I dined with our whole company at the Monastery....Samuel Johnson Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland[unknown text - letters?- presumably addressed to ...Print: Book
1700-1799'Oct. 25. Wednesday. I went with the Prior to St. Cloud, to see Dr. Hooke.—We walked round the palace, and had some talk.—I dined with our whole company at the Monastery....Samuel Johnson John Dryden[preface to his 'Poetical Miscellanies', vol. 3]Print: Book
1700-1799'[Letter to Boswell] I Have at last sent you all Lord Hailes's papers. While I was in France, I looked very often into Henault; but Lord Hailes, in my opinion, leaves him...Samuel Johnson David Dalrymple, Lord HailesAnnals of ScotlandManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'[Letter to Boswell] I Have at last sent you all Lord Hailes's papers. While I was in France, I looked very often into Henault; but Lord Hailes, in my opinion, leaves him...Samuel Johnson Charles Jean François HenaultAbrege chronologique de l'histoire de FrancePrint: Book
1700-1799'[Johnson opined that] Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy" is a valuable work. It is, perhaps, overloaded with quotation. But there is a great spirit and great power in what...Samuel Johnson Robert BurtonAnatomy of Melancholy, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'Boswell. "But, Sir, may there not be very good conversation without a contest for superiority." Johnson. "No animated conversation, Sir; for it cannot be but one or othe...Samuel Johnson Jason de Nores[edition of Horace with commentary]Print: Book
1700-1799'Boswell. "But, Sir, may there not be very good conversation without a contest for superiority." Johnson. "No animated conversation, Sir; for it cannot be but one or othe...Samuel Johnson Richard Bentley[edition of Horace with commentary]Print: Book
1700-1799' [Johnson said] "When Lord Lyttelton's 'Dialogues of the Dead' came out, one of which is between Apicius, an ancient epicure, and Dartineuf, a modern epicure, Dodsley sa...Samuel Johnson John CampbellPolitical Survey of Great Britain, APrint: Book
1700-1799'I censured some ludicrous fantastick dialogues between two coach horses and other such stuff, which Baretti had lately published. He joined with me and said, "Nothing od...Samuel Johnson Laurence SterneLife and Opinions of Tristam ShandyPrint: 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 John DyerFleece, 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 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'[At the home of the Quaker Mr Lloyd] I having asked to look at Baskerville's edition of "Barclay's Apology", Johnson laid hold of it; and the chapter on baptism happenin...Samuel Johnson Robert BarclayApology for the True Christian DivinityPrint: Book
1700-1799' [Johnson said] The excellent Mr. Nelson's "Festivals and Fasts," which has, I understand, the greatest sale of any book ever printed in England, except the Bible, is a ...Samuel Johnson Robert NelsonCompanion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Churc...Print: Book
1700-1799' [Johnson said] The excellent Mr. Nelson's "Festivals and Fasts," which has, I understand, the greatest sale of any book ever printed in England, except the Bible, is a ...Samuel Johnson Joseph Holden Pott[sermons on church holidays]Print: Unknown


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