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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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 William Mason Print: Book
1700-1799'Of Swift's Style which I praised as beautiful he observed; that it had only the Beauty of a Bubble, The Colour says he is gay, but the substance slight.' Samuel Johnson Jonathan Swift Print: Book
1700-1799'We talked of Dryden - Buckingham's Play said I has hurt the Reputation of the Poet, great as he was; such is the force of Ridicule! - on the contrary my dearest replies ...Samuel Johnson George Villiers, 2nd Duke of BuckinghamRehearsal, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'Burney likewise has experienced his [Johnson's] sportive Humour; when he shewed him his Book about Musick and enquired his Opinion concerning it; the Words are well arra...Samuel Johnson Charles BurneyHistory of MusicPrint: Book
1700-1799'He had in his Youth been a great Reader of Mandeville, and was very watchful for the Stains of original corruption both in himself & others'. Samuel Johnson Bernard Mandeville Print: Book
1700-1799'He had however no Taste for Modern Poetry - Gray Mason &c - Modern Poetry says he one day at our house, is like Modern Gardening, every thing now is raised by a hot bed;...Samuel Johnson Thomas Gray Print: Book
1700-1799'He had however no Taste for Modern Poetry - Gray Mason &c - Modern Poetry says he one day at our house, is like Modern Gardening, every thing now is raised by a hot bed;...Samuel Johnson William Mason Print: Book
1700-1799'A propos to Gardening he once advised me to buy myself some famous Book upon the Subject, and read it says he attentively, but do not believe it' Samuel Johnson [book on gardening]Print: 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 Jonathan SwiftHistory Of the Four last years Of the QueenPrint: 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'He was however very much nettled by Churchill's Satire that's certain; for he rejected him from among the Poets when the Booksellers begged him a Place in the Edition th...Samuel Johnson Charles ChurchillGhost, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'When I shewed him [Johnson] his Character next day - for he would see it; he said it was a very fine Piece of Writing; and that I had improved upon [italics] Young [end ...Samuel Johnson Hester Lynch Thrale[MS 'character' of Johnson]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'of James Harris Dedication to his Hermes he said that tho' but 14 Lines long, there were 6 Grammatical faults in it'. Samuel Johnson James Harris[Dedication in] Hermes: or, a Philosophical Inquir...Print: Book
1700-1799'of Elphinstone's specimen of Martial he [Johnson] said, there was too much Folly in them for Madness, and too much Madness for Folly'. Samuel Johnson MartialEpigramsPrint: Book
1700-1799'I shall transcribe some Verses of Doctor Burney's on the same unworthy Subject [herself]; on which Verses Johnson made this remark when he saw them. These says he are so...Samuel Johnson Charles Burney[poem about Mrs Thrale]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799''15:Jan: 1778 Mr Johnson told me today that he had translated Anacreon's Dove, & as they were the first Greek Verses that had struck him when a Boy; so says he they cont...Samuel Johnson AnacreonDovePrint: Book
1700-1799'Doctor Grainger, Author of the fine Ode to Solitude printed in Dodsley's Miscellanies wrote a poem while he was in the West Indies and called it the Sugar Cane; it was s...Samuel Johnson James GraingerSugar Cane, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'I have heard Johnson say that there was no Series of Verses in any English Tragedy so sublime & striking as the passage in Congreve's Mourning Bride: beginning thus H...Samuel Johnson William CongreveMourning Bride, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'1: August 1779.] Johnson has been diverting himself with imitating Potter's Aeschylus in a translation of some verses of Euripides - he has translated them seriously bes...Samuel Johnson Aeschylus Print: Book
1700-1799'1: August 1779.] Johnson has been diverting himself with imitating Potter's Aeschylus in a translation of some verses of Euripides - he has translated them seriously bes...Samuel Johnson Euripides Print: Book


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