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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'Lady Miller's collection of verses by fashionable people, which were put into her Vase at Batheaston Villa, near Bath, in competition for honorary prizes, being mentione...Samuel Johnson [unknown][verses deposited in Lady Miller's vase]Print: Book
1700-1799'Langton. "There is not one bad line in that poem [Goldsmith's 'The Traveller']— no one of Dryden's careless verses." Sir Joshua. "I was glad to hear Charles Fox say, it ...Samuel Johnson Oliver GoldsmithTraveller, ThePrint: Unknown
'Looking at Messrs. Dilly's splendid edition of Lord Chesterfield's miscellaneous works, he laughed, and said, "Here now are two speeches ascribed to him, both of which w...Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson[speeches attributed to Lord Chesterfield]Print: Book
'Looking at Messrs. Dilly's splendid edition of Lord Chesterfield's miscellaneous works, he laughed, and said, "Here now are two speeches ascribed to him, both of which w...Samuel Johnson Henry Home, Lord KamesSketches of the History of ManPrint: Book
'Looking at Messrs. Dilly's splendid edition of Lord Chesterfield's miscellaneous works, he laughed, and said, "Here now are two speeches ascribed to him, both of which w...Samuel Johnson Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Englan...Print: Book
1700-1799'Lord Chesterfield's letters being mentioned, Johnson said, "It was not to be wondered at that they had so great a sale, considering that they were the letters of a state...Samuel Johnson Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of ChesterfieldLetters to his SonPrint: Book
1700-1799'Lord Hailes had sent him a present of a curious little printed poem, on repairing the University of Aberdeen, by David [italics] Malloch [end italics], which he thought ...Samuel Johnson David Mallet[a poem about Aberdeen]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'Lord Lyttelton's Dialogues he deemed a nugatory performance. "That man, (said he,) sat down to write a book, to tell the world what the world had all his life been telli...Samuel Johnson George, first Lord LytteltonDialogues of the DeadPrint: Book
1700-1799'Many years ago, when I used to read in the library of your College, I promised to recompence the college for that permission, by adding to their books a Baskerville's 'V...Samuel Johnson [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'Mr Peter Garrick told me, that Johnson and he went together to the Fountain tavern, and read it over, and that he afterwards solicited Mr Fleetwood, the patentee of Drur...Samuel Johnson Samuel JohnsonIreneManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Mr Peter Garrick, the elder brother of David, told me that he remembered Johnson's borrowing the "Turkish History" of him, in order to form his play from it'.Samuel Johnson [Turkish History]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'Mr. Elphinston talked of a new book that was much admired, and asked Dr. Johnson if he had read it. Johnson. "I have looked into it." "What (said Elphinston), have you n...Samuel Johnson [unknown][a recently published book]Print: Book
1700-1799'Mr. Murphy said, that "The Memoirs of Gray's Life" set him much higher in his estimation than his poems did; "for you there saw a man constantly at work in literature". ...Samuel Johnson Thomas Gray[Memoirs]Print: Book
1700-1799'Mr. Murphy said, that "The Memoirs of Gray's Life" set him much higher in his estimation than his poems did; "for you there saw a man constantly at work in literature". ...Samuel Johnson Mark Akenside[Poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'Mr. Murphy said, that "The Memoirs of Gray's Life" set him much higher in his estimation than his poems did; "for you there saw a man constantly at work in literature". ...Samuel Johnson William Mason[Poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'Mr. Scott of Amwell's "Elegies" were lying in the room. Dr. Johnson observed "They are very well; but such as twenty people might write." Upon this I took occasion to co...Samuel Johnson John Scott[Elegies]Print: Book
1700-1799'Mr. Seward mentioned to us the observations which he had made upon the strata of earth in volcanoes, from which it appeared, that they were so very different in depth at...Samuel Johnson Patrick BrydoneTour Through Sicily and Malta. In A Series of Lett...Print: Book
1700-1799'Mrs. Kennicot related, in his [Johnson's] presence, a lively saying of Dr. Johnson to Miss Hannah More, who had expressed a wonder that the poet who had written "Paradis...Samuel Johnson John Milton Print: Book
1700-1799'Mrs. Montague, a lady distinguished for having written an Essay on Shakspeare [sic], being mentioned:—Reynolds. "I think that essay does her honour." Johnson. "Yes, Sir;...Samuel Johnson Elizabeth MontaguEssay on the Writings and Genius of ShakespearPrint: Unknown


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