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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'Though he had no taste for painting, he admired much the manner in which Sir Joshua Reynolds treated of his art, in his "Discourses to the Royal Academy". He observed on...Samuel Johnson Joshua ReynoldsSeven Discourses Delivered in the Royal Academy Print: Book
1700-1799'I shewed him some verses on Lichfield by Miss Seward, which I had that day received from her, and had the pleasure to hear him approve of them. He confirmed to me the tr...Samuel Johnson Anna Seward[poem on Lichfield]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I shewed him some verses on Lichfield by Miss Seward, which I had that day received from her, and had the pleasure to hear him approve of them. He confirmed to me the tr...Samuel Johnson Anna Seward'Elegy on Captain Cook'Print: Unknown
1700-1799' [Johnson having asked for details about Lord Peterborough] "But, (said his Lordship [Lord Eliot,) the best account of Lord Peterborough that I have happened to meet wit...Samuel Johnson Daniel DefoeMemoirs of Captain George CarletonPrint: Book
1700-1799'[letter from Johnson to Dr Brocklesby] Tell Dr. Heberden, that in the coach I read "Ciceronianus" which I concluded as I entered Lichfield. My affection and understandin...Samuel Johnson Desiderius Erasmus CiceronianusPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Letter from Johnson to John Nichols] At Ashbourne, where I had very little company, I had the luck to borrow "Mr. Bowyer's Life"; a book so full of contemporary history...Samuel Johnson [Mr Bowyer's Life]Print: Book
1700-1799'Still [in his last days] his love of literature did not fail. A very few days before his death he transmitted to his friend Mr. John Nichols, a list of the authours of t...Samuel Johnson Universal history, from the earliest account of ti...Print: Book
1700-1799'During his sleepless nights he amused himself by translating into Latin verse, from the Greek, many of the epigrams in the "Anthologia"'.Samuel Johnson Anthologia GraecaPrint: Book
1700-1799'when talking on the subject of prayer [to Johnson on his deathbed], Dr. Brocklesby repeated from Juvenal,-- "Orandum est, ut sit mens sana in corpore sano", and s...Samuel Johnson JuvenalTenth SatirePrint: Unknown
1700-1799'He seriously entertained the thought of translating "Thuanus". He often talked to me on the subject; and once, in particular, when I was rather wishing that he would fav...Samuel Johnson Jacques-Auguste de Thou Print: Book
1700-1799'He pressed me to study Dr. Clarke and to read his Sermons. I asked him why he pressed Dr. Clarke, an Arian. "Because, (said he) he is fullest on the propitiatory sacrifi...Samuel Johnson Samuel ClarkeSermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Mrs Thrale gives an epitaph translated from French by Bennet Langton, and her own translation] 'I remember Johnson preferred mine at the Time it was fresh among us'.Samuel Johnson [French epitaph translated by Mrs Thrale and Benne...Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Verses on Virtue published in Dryden's Miscellanies! ye...Samuel Johnson BoethiusConsolation of PhilosophyPrint: Book
1700-1799'We were speaking of Young as a Poet; Young's works cried Johnson are like a miry Road, with here & there a Stepping Stone or so; but you must always so dirty your Feet b...Samuel Johnson Edward Young Print: Book
1700-1799'[having been searching for evidence of the truth of Christianity, Johnson] recollecting a Book he had once picked up in the Shop, & again thrown by, entitled De Veritate...Samuel Johnson Hugo GrotiusDe veritate religionis ChristianaePrint: Book
1700-1799'He [Johnson] was just nine Years old when having got the play of Hamlet to read in his Father's Kitchen, he read on very qu[i]etly till he came to the Ghost scene, when ...Samuel Johnson William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1700-1799'It was on the 18: day of July 1773 that we were sitting in the blue Room at Streatham and were talking of Writers - Steele's Essays were mentioned - but they are too thi...Samuel Johnson Richard Steele[Essays]Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1700-1799'To Richardson as a Writer he gave the highest Praises, but mentioning his unquenchable Thirst after Applause That Man said he could not be content to sail gently down th...Samuel Johnson Samuel Richardson Print: Book
1700-1799'We were speaking of Young as a Poet; Young's works cried Johnson are like a miry Road, with here & there a Stepping Stone or so; but you must always so dirty your Feet b...Samuel Johnson John Dryden Print: Book
1700-1799'It was on the 18: day of July 1773 that we were sitting in the blue Room at Streatham and were talking of Writers - Steele's Essays were mentioned - but they are too thi...Samuel Johnson Thomas Gray Print: Book


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