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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'[Letter to Boswell] Dr. Webster's informations were much less exact and much less determinate than I expected: they are, indeed, much less positive than, if he can trus...Samuel Johnson Alexander Webster[census of Scotland]Manuscript: Codex
1700-1799'He said, he wished to see John Dennis's "Critical Works" collected. Davies said they would not sell. Dr. Johnson seemed to think otherwise.' Samuel Johnson John Dennis[critical works]Print: Serial / periodical, presumably not in a book if Johnson wanted them to be collected
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'Boswell. "But, Sir, may there not be very good conversation without a contest for superiority." Johnson. "No animated conversation, Sir; for it cannot be but one or othe...Samuel Johnson Jason de Nores[edition of Horace with commentary]Print: Book
1700-1799'Boswell. "But, Sir, may there not be very good conversation without a contest for superiority." Johnson. "No animated conversation, Sir; for it cannot be but one or othe...Samuel Johnson Richard Bentley[edition of Horace with commentary]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
'[from Bennet Langton's collection of 1780 Johnsoniana, passed to Boswell] 'One night at The Club he produced a translation of an Epitaph which Lord Elibank had written i...Samuel Johnson Lord Elibank[Epitaph on his Lady]Manuscript: Unknown
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'[present at tea on June 12th was] the Reverend Herbert Croft, who, I am afraid, was somewhat mortified by Dr. Johnson's not being highly pleased with some "Family Discou...Samuel Johnson Herbert Croft[Family Discourses]Print: 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''He spoke often in praise of French literature. "The French are excellent in this, (he would say,) they have a book on every subject".'Samuel Johnson [French literature]Print: Book
1700-1799'Speaking of the French novels, compared with Richardson's, he said, they might be pretty baubles, but a wren was not an eagle'. [account by Dr Maxwell, an Irish London p...Samuel Johnson [unknown][French novels]Print: Book
1700-1799'In his [Johnson's] manuscript diary of this year, there is the following entry: "Nov. 27. Advent Sunday. I considered that this day, being the beginning of the eccles...Samuel Johnson [n/a][Greek Testaments]Print: Book
1700-1799'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Spanish plays, being wildly and improbably farcical, would please children here, as children are ent...Samuel Johnson [Greek tragedies]Print: Book
1700-1799'[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] I have now three parcels of Lord Hailes's history, which I purpose to return all the next week: that his respect for my little observati...Samuel Johnson Charles-Jean-François Henault[history]Print: Book
1700-1799'In the afternoon I tried to get Dr. Johnson to like the Poems of Mr. Hamilton of Bangour, which I had brought with me: I had been much pleased with them at a very early ...Samuel Johnson William Hamilton[imitations of Horace]Print: Book
1700-1799'I then reminded him of the schoolmaster's cause [a legal case on corporal punisment that Boswell was defending], and proposed to read to him the printed papers concernin...Samuel Johnson [unknown][legal case papers]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'The Swede [Mr Kristrom] went away, and Mr. Johnson continued his reading of the papers. I said, "I am afraid, Sir, it is troublesome to you." "Why, Sir (said he), I do n...Samuel Johnson [unknown][legal case papers]Print: Unknown
1700-1799' [letter from Johnson to Boswell] Since I wrote, I have looked over Mr. Maclaurin's plea, and think it excellent. [ a legal case Boswell was involved in] How is the suit...Samuel Johnson [legal documents relating to Mr Maclaurin]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'He allowed high praise to Thomson, as a poet; but when one of the company said he was also a very good man, our moralist contested this with very great warmth, accusing ...Samuel Johnson James Thomson[letters to his sisters and accounts by them of hi...Manuscript: Letter


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