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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'This letter [printed above; from Dr Dodd, a clergyman condemned to death, asking Johnson to help him appeal for clemency to the King] was brought to Dr. Johnson when in ...Samuel Johnson William Dodd[letter]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'His Majesty then talked of the controversy between Warburton and Lowth, which he seemed to have read, and asked Johnson what he thought of it. Johnson answered, "Warburt...Samuel Johnson [unknown][Lowth-Warburton controversy]Print: Unknown
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'[Letter from Johnson to John Nichols] At Ashbourne, where I had very little company, I had the luck to borrow "Mr. Bowyer's Life"; a book so full of contemporary history...Samuel Johnson [Mr Bowyer's Life]Print: 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'[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] There has appeared lately in the papers an account of a boat overset between Mull and Ulva, in which many passengers were lost, and amo...Samuel Johnson [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'[Johnson said of Rev. Zacariah Mudge] The general course of his life was determined by his profession; he studied the sacred volumes in the original languages; with what...Samuel Johnson Zachariah Mudge[notes on the Psalms]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'[letter from Johnson to Thomas Astle] Your notes on Alfred appear to me very judicious and accurate, but they are too few. Many things familiar to you, are unknown to me...Samuel Johnson Thomas Astle[notes on the will of King Alfred]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 Samuel Richardson[novels]Print: 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
1850-1899'His [Colley Cibber's] friends gave out that he [italics] intended [end italics] his birth-day "Odes" should be bad: but that was not the case, Sir; for he kept them many...Samuel Johnson Colley Cibber[Odes]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Sir Joshua [Reynolds] mentioned Mr. Cumberland's "Odes", which were just published. JOHNSON. "Why, Sir, they would have been thought as good as Odes commonly are, if Cum...Samuel Johnson Richard Cumberland[Odes]Print: Book
'He [Johnson] said, "the lyrical part of Horace never can be perfectly translated; so much of the excellence is in the numbers and the expression. Francis has done it the...Samuel Johnson Horace[Odes]Print: Book
1700-1799'Horace having been mentioned; BOSWELL. "There is a great deal of thinking in his works. One finds there almost every thing but religion". SEWARD. "He speaks of his retur...Samuel Johnson Horace[ode] 'Parcus deorum cultur et infrequensPrint: Book
1700-1799'Johnson thought the poems published as translations from Ossian had so little merit, that he said, 'Sir, a man might write such stuff for ever, if he would [italics]aban...Samuel Johnson James Macpherson[Ossian poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'BOSWELL. "Yet Cibber was a man of observation?" JOHNSON. "I think not." BOSWELL. "You will allow his 'Apology' to be well done". JOHNSON. "Very well done, to be sure, Si...Samuel Johnson Colley Cibber[Plays]Print: 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
1850-1899'"Cibber's familiar style, however, was better than that which Whitehead has assumed. [italics] Grand [end italics] nonsense is insupportable. Whitehead is but a little m...Samuel Johnson William Whitehead[poem on Garrick]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'I shewed him some verses on Lichfield by Miss Seward, which I had that day received from her, and had the pleasure to hear him approve of them. He confirmed to me the tr...Samuel Johnson Anna Seward[poem on Lichfield]Manuscript: Unknown
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[poem on Winter]Print: Book


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