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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'This letter [printed above; from Dr Dodd, a clergyman condemned to death, asking Johnson to help him appeal for clemency to the King] was brought to Dr. Johnson when in ...Samuel Johnson William Dodd[letter]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'In the afternoon I tried to get Dr. Johnson to like the Poems of Mr. Hamilton of Bangour, which I had brought with me: I had been much pleased with them at a very early ...Samuel Johnson William Hamilton'Ah the poor shepherd's mournful fate'Print: Book
1700-1799'In the afternoon I tried to get Dr. Johnson to like the Poems of Mr. Hamilton of Bangour, which I had brought with me: I had been much pleased with them at a very early ...Samuel Johnson William Hamilton[imitations of Horace]Print: Book
1700-1799'In the afternoon I tried to get Dr. Johnson to like the Poems of Mr. Hamilton of Bangour, which I had brought with me: I had been much pleased with them at a very early ...Samuel Johnson William Hamilton'Inscription in a Summer house'Print: Book
1700-1799'In the afternoon I tried to get Dr. Johnson to like the Poems of Mr. Hamilton of Bangour, which I had brought with me: I had been much pleased with them at a very early ...Samuel Johnson William Hamilton[poem on Winter]Print: Book
1700-1799'He [Johnson] observed, that a gentleman of eminence in literature [Thomas Warton] had got into a bad style of poetry of late. "He puts (said he) a very common thing in a...Samuel Johnson Thomas Warton[poems]Print: 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
1700-1799'He [Johnson] was much diverted with an article which I shewed him in the "Critical Review" of this year, giving an account of a curious publication, entitled, "A Spiritu...Samuel Johnson Critical ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'I talked to him [Johnson] of Forster's "Voyage to the South Seas", which pleased me; but I found he did not like it. "Sir, (said he,) there is a great affectation of fin...Samuel Johnson George ForsterVoyage Round the World in his Britannic Majesty's ...Print: Book
1700-1799'Mr. Burke's "Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol, on the affairs of America", being mentioned, Johnson censured the composition much, and he ridiculed the definition of a ...Samuel Johnson Edmund BurkeLetter To The Sheriffs Of Bristol Print: Unknown
1700-1799'Talking of Rochester's Poems, he said, he had given them to Mr. Steevens to castrate for the edition of the poets, to which he was to write Prefaces. Dr. Taylor (the onl...Samuel Johnson Gilbert BurnetSome passages of the life and death of the Right H...Print: Book
1700-1799'Talking of Rochester's Poems, he said, he had given them to Mr. Steevens to castrate for the edition of the poets, to which he was to write Prefaces. Dr. Taylor (the onl...Samuel Johnson John Wilmot, Lord Rochester[Poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'I asked whether Prior's Poems were to be printed entire: Johnson said they were. I mentioned Lord Hailes's censure of Prior, in his Preface to a collection of "Sacred Po...Samuel Johnson Matthew Prior[Poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'He repeated a good many lines of Horace's "Odes", while we were in the chaise. I remember particularly the Ode [italics] Eheu fugaces [italics]. He said, the dispute...Samuel Johnson HoraceOdesPrint: Book
1700-1799'He repeated a good many lines of Horace's "Odes", while we were in the chaise. I remember particularly the Ode [italics] Eheu fugaces [italics]. He said, the dispute...Samuel Johnson VirgilAeneidPrint: Book
1700-1799'He repeated a good many lines of Horace's "Odes", while we were in the chaise. I remember particularly the Ode [italics] Eheu fugaces [italics]. He said, the dispute...Samuel Johnson HomerIliad and OdysseyPrint: Book
1700-1799'He [Johnson] told me that Bacon was a favourite authour with him; but he had never read his works till he was compiling the "English Dictionary", in which, he said, I mi...Samuel Johnson Francis Bacon 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'Johnson. "I have been reading Thicknesse's Travels, which I think are entertaining." Boswell. "What, Sir, a good book?" Johnson. "Yes, Sir, to read once; I do not say yo...Samuel Johnson Philip ThicknesseObservations on the Customs and Manners of the Fre...Print: Book
1700-1799'He [Johnson] was very silent this evening ; and read in a variety of books ; suddenly throwing down one, and taking up another.' Samuel Johnson  Print: Book


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