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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'Johnson said of Chatterton, "This is the most extraordinary young man that has encountered my knowledge. It is wonderful how the whelp has written such things".' Samuel Johnson Thomas Chatterton[poems supposedly by Thomas Rowley]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799' [Johnson said] The little volumes entitled "Respublicae", which are very well done, were a bookseller's work'. Samuel Johnson RespublicaePrint: Book
1700-1799' [Johnson said] Lord Chesterfield's "Letters to his Son", I think, might be made a very pretty book. Take out the immorality, and it should be put into the hands of ever...Samuel Johnson Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of ChesterfieldLetters to his SonPrint: Book
1700-1799'I read (said he [Johnson],) Sharpe's letters on Italy over again, when I was at Bath. There is a great deal of matter in them.'Samuel Johnson Samuel SharpLetters from Italy, describing the Customs and Man...Print: Book
1700-1799' [Johnson said] Lord Hailes's "Annals of Scotland" have not that painted form which is the taste of this age; but it is a book which will always sell, it has such a stab...Samuel Johnson David Dalrymple, Lord HailesAnnals of ScotlandPrint: Book
1700-1799'I asked him whether he would advise me to read the Bible with a commentary, and what commentaries he would recommend. JOHNSON. "To be sure, Sir, I would have you read th...Samuel Johnson William Lowth[biblical commentaries - old testament]Print: Book
1700-1799'I asked him whether he would advise me to read the Bible with a commentary, and what commentaries he would recommend. JOHNSON. "To be sure, Sir, I would have you read th...Samuel Johnson Patrick[biblical commentaries - old testament]Print: Book
1700-1799'I asked him whether he would advise me to read the Bible with a commentary, and what commentaries he would recommend. JOHNSON. "To be sure, Sir, I would have you read th...Samuel Johnson Henry HammondA Paraphrase and Annotations Upon All the Books of...Print: Book
1700-1799'BOSWELL. "Yet Cibber was a man of observation?" JOHNSON. "I think not." BOSWELL. "You will allow his 'Apology' to be well done". JOHNSON. "Very well done, to be sure, Si...Samuel Johnson Colley Cibber[Plays]Print: Book
1700-1799'BOSWELL. "Yet Cibber was a man of observation?" JOHNSON. "I think not." BOSWELL. "You will allow his 'Apology' to be well done". JOHNSON. "Very well done, to be sure, Si...Samuel Johnson Colley CibberAn Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley CibberPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Johnson said] He [Colley Cibber] abused Pindar to me, and then shewed me an Ode of his own, with an absurd couplet, making a linnet soar on an eagle's wing. I told him ...Samuel Johnson Colley Cibber[an Ode]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Dr. Johnson and Mr. Wilkes talked of the contested passage in Horace's "Art of Poetry", "[italics] Difficile est proprie communia dicere.[end italics]' Mr. Wilkes accord...Samuel Johnson HoraceArs poeticaPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Boswell having complained that he was suffering from melancholy, Johnson wrote] 'Read Cheyne's "English Malady"; but do not let him teach you a foolish notion that mela...Samuel Johnson George CheyneEnglish Malady, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799' [letter from Johnson to Boswell] Since I wrote, I have looked over Mr. Maclaurin's plea, and think it excellent. [ a legal case Boswell was involved in] How is the suit...Samuel Johnson [legal documents relating to Mr Maclaurin]Manuscript: Unknown
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'[letter from Johnson to Boswell] Xenophon observes, in his "Treatise of Oeconomy", that if every thing be kept in a certain place, when any thing is worn out or consumed...Samuel Johnson Xenophon OeconomicusPrint: 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'[letter from Johnson to Charles O' Connor] Dr. Leland begins his history too late: the ages which deserve an exact enquiry are those times (for such there were) when Ire...Samuel Johnson Thomas LelandHistory of Ireland from the Invasion of Henry II, ...Print: Book


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