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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
'My arrival interrupted for a little while the important business of this true representative of Bayes[a clergyman who wanted Johnson's opinions on his literary works]; u...Samuel Johnson William TaskerOde to the Warlike Genius of BritainManuscript: Unknown
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
'[from Bennet Langton's collection of 1780 Johnsoniana, passed to Boswell] Talking of Gray's "Odes", he said, "They are forced plants raised in a hot-bed; and they are po...Samuel Johnson Thomas GrayOdesPrint: Book
1700-1799'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] As an instance of the niceness of his taste, though he praised West's translation of Pindar, he poin...Samuel Johnson PindarOdesPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Johnson said] The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events. However, I have this year read all Virgil thro...Samuel Johnson HomerodysseyPrint: Book
1700-1799'He [Johnson] attacked Lord Monboddo's strange speculation on the primitive state of human nature; observing, "Sir, it is all conjecture about a thing useless, even were ...Samuel Johnson James Burnett, Lord MonboddoOf the Origin and Progress of LanguagePrint: Book
1700-1799'I observed the great defect of the tragedy of "Othello" was, that it had not a moral; for that no man could resist the circumstances of suspicion which were artfully sug...Samuel Johnson William ShakespeareOthelloPrint: Book
1700-1799'After dinner our conversation first turned upon Pope. Johnson said, his characters of men were admirably drawn, those of women not so well. He repeated to us, in his for...Samuel Johnson Alexander PopePastoralsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that he has taught us any thing; but he has told us old thin...Samuel Johnson Edmund BurkePhilosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas...Print: Book
1700-1799'The King then asked him if there were any other literary journals published in this kingdom, except the "Monthly" and "Critical Reviews"; and on being answered there was...Samuel Johnson [n/a]Philosophical Transactions of the Royal SocietyPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Johnson praised John Bunyan highly. "His 'Pilgrim's Progress' has great merit, both for invention, imagination, and the conduct of the story; and it has had the best evi...Samuel Johnson John BunyanPilgrim's Progress, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'Johnson was in high spirits this evening at the club, and talked with great animation and success. He attacked Swift, as he used to do upon all occasions. "The 'Tale of ...Samuel Johnson Jonathan SwiftPlan for the Improvement of the English Language Print: Book
1700-1799'[Johnson said] "I see they have published a splendid edition of Akenside's works. One bad ode may be suffered; but a number of them together makes one sick." Boswell. "A...Samuel Johnson Mark AkensidePleasures of Imagination, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'He spoke slightingly of Dyer's "Fleece".— "The subject, Sir, cannot be made poetical. How can a man write poetically of serges and druggets ? Yet you will hear many peop...Samuel Johnson James GraingerPoetical translation of the elegies of Tibullus, A...Print: Book
1700-1799' [Johnson said] "When Lord Lyttelton's 'Dialogues of the Dead' came out, one of which is between Apicius, an ancient epicure, and Dartineuf, a modern epicure, Dodsley sa...Samuel Johnson John CampbellPolitical Survey of Great Britain, APrint: Book
1700-1799'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] 'Of Dodsley's "Publick Virtue, a Poem", he said, "It was fine blank (meaning to express his usual co...Samuel Johnson Robert DodsleyPublick Virtue, a PoemPrint: Book
'[from the 1780 Johnsoniana passed to Boswell by Bennet Langton] 'When in good humour he would talk of his own writings with a wonderful frankness and candour, and would ...Samuel Johnson Samuel JohnsonRambler, ThePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1700-1799'He talked little to us in the carriage, being chiefly occupied in reading Dr. Watson's second volume of "Chemical Essays", which he liked very well, and his own "Prince ...Samuel Johnson Samuel JohnsonRasselas, Prince of AbyssiniaPrint: Book
1700-1799'Baxter's "Reasons of the Christian Religion", he thought contained the best collection of the evidences of the divinity of the Christian system.' Samuel Johnson Richard BaxterReasons of the Christian Religion, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'The conversation now turned on critical subjects. Johnson. "Bayes, in 'The Rehearsal', is a mighty silly character. If it was intended to be like a particular man, it co...Samuel Johnson George Villiers, Second Duke of BuckinghamRehearsal, ThePrint: Book


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