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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'Dr Percy, the Bishop of Dromore, who was long intimately acquainted with him, and has preserved a few anecdotes concerning him, regretting that he was not a more diligen...Samuel Johnson [romances of chivalry]Print: Book
1700-1799'Dr Percy, the Bishop of Dromore, who was long intimately acquainted with him, and has preserved a few anecdotes concerning him, regretting that he was not a more diligen...Samuel Johnson Melchor de OrtegaFelixmarte de HircaniaPrint: Book
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'Dr. Johnson said, "Thomson had a true poetical genius, the power of viewing every thing in a poetical light. His fault is such a cloud of words sometimes, that the sense...Samuel Johnson James Thomson[Poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'Dr. Johnson, as usual, spoke contemptuously of Colley Cibber. "It is wonderful that a man, who for forty years had lived with the great and the witty, should have acquir...Samuel Johnson Colley CibberCareless Husband, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'Dr. Mayo having asked Johnson's opinion of Soame Jenyns's "View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion";--JOHNSON. "I think it a pretty book; not very theolo...Samuel Johnson Soame JenynsView of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Rel...Print: Book
1700-1799'Dr. Newton, the Bishop of Bristol, having been mentioned, Johnson, recollecting the manner in which he had been censured by that Prelate, thus retaliated:-"Tom knew he s...Samuel Johnson Thomas NewtonDissertations on the Prophecies Which Have Remarka...Print: Book
1700-1799'Dr. Newton, the Bishop of Bristol, having been mentioned, Johnson, recollecting the manner in which he had been censured by that Prelate, thus retaliated:-"Tom knew he s...Samuel Johnson Thomas NewtonAccount of his Own LifePrint: 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'Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, "he was a blockhead :" and upon my expressing my astonishment at so strange an assertion, he said, "What I mean by his being...Samuel Johnson Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, "he was a blockhead :" and upon my expressing my astonishment at so strange an assertion, he said, "What I mean by his being...Samuel Johnson Samuel Richardson[novels]Print: Book
1700-1799'Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company. Johnson. "I have been reading Twiss's 'Travels in Spain', which are just come out. They are as go...Samuel Johnson Patrick BrydoneTour Through Sicily and Malta: In a Series of Lett...Print: Book
1700-1799'Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company. Johnson. "I have been reading Twiss's 'Travels in Spain', which are just come out. They are as go...Samuel Johnson Richard PocockeDescription of the East and Some other Countries,Print: Book
1700-1799'Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company. Johnson. "I have been reading Twiss's 'Travels in Spain', which are just come out. They are as go...Samuel Johnson Richard TwissTravels through Portugal and Spain Print: Book
1700-1799'Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company. Johnson. "I have been reading Twiss's 'Travels in Spain', which are just come out. They are as go...Samuel Johnson John George KeyslerTravels through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzer...Print: Book
1700-1799'Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company. Johnson. "I have been reading Twiss's 'Travels in Spain', which are just come out. They are as go...Samuel Johnson Henri Marie Ducrotay de BlainvilleTravels through Holland, Germany and Switzerland, ...Print: Book
1700-1799'Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company. Johnson. "I have been reading Twiss's 'Travels in Spain', which are just come out. They are as go...Samuel Johnson Joseph AddisonRemarks on Several Parts of ItalyPrint: Book
1700-1799'Having given such a specimen of his poetical powers, he was asked by Mr Jorden to translate Pope's Messiah into Latin verse, as a Christmas exercise. He performed it wit...Samuel Johnson Alexander PopeMessiah. A Sacred Eclogue, in Imitation of Virgil'...Print: Book
'Having regretted to him that I had learnt little Greek, as is too generally the case in Scotland; that I had for a long time hardly applied at all to the study of that n...Samuel Johnson SylvanusFirst Book of the IliadPrint: Book
'Having regretted to him that I had learnt little Greek, as is too generally the case in Scotland; that I had for a long time hardly applied at all to the study of that n...Samuel Johnson John DawsonGreek-English Lexicon of the New TestamentPrint: Book



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