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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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 Virgil Print: Book
1700-1799'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Mr. Langton, when a very young man, read Dodsley's "Cleone, a Tragedy", to him, not aware of his ext...Samuel Johnson Thomas Otway Print: Book
1700-1799'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Johnson one day gave high praise to Dr. Bentley's verses in Dodsley's "Collection", which he recited...Samuel Johnson Richard Bentley Print: Book
1700-1799'I asked him what works of Richard Baxter's I should read. He said, "Read any of them; they are all good".' Samuel Johnson Richard Baxter 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'On Wednesday, June 19, Dr. Johnson and I returned to London; he was not well to-day, and said very little, employing himself chiefly in reading Euripides'. Samuel Johnson Euripides Print: Book
1700-1799'He seriously entertained the thought of translating "Thuanus". He often talked to me on the subject; and once, in particular, when I was rather wishing that he would fav...Samuel Johnson Jacques-Auguste de Thou Print: Book
1700-1799'We were speaking of Young as a Poet; Young's works cried Johnson are like a miry Road, with here & there a Stepping Stone or so; but you must always so dirty your Feet b...Samuel Johnson Edward Young Print: Book
1700-1799'To Richardson as a Writer he gave the highest Praises, but mentioning his unquenchable Thirst after Applause That Man said he could not be content to sail gently down th...Samuel Johnson Samuel Richardson Print: Book
1700-1799'We were speaking of Young as a Poet; Young's works cried Johnson are like a miry Road, with here & there a Stepping Stone or so; but you must always so dirty your Feet b...Samuel Johnson John Dryden Print: Book
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 Thomas Gray Print: Book
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 William Mason Print: Book
1700-1799'Of Swift's Style which I praised as beautiful he observed; that it had only the Beauty of a Bubble, The Colour says he is gay, but the substance slight.' Samuel Johnson Jonathan Swift Print: Book
1700-1799'He had in his Youth been a great Reader of Mandeville, and was very watchful for the Stains of original corruption both in himself & others'. Samuel Johnson Bernard Mandeville Print: Book
1700-1799'He had however no Taste for Modern Poetry - Gray Mason &c - Modern Poetry says he one day at our house, is like Modern Gardening, every thing now is raised by a hot bed;...Samuel Johnson Thomas Gray Print: Book
1700-1799'He had however no Taste for Modern Poetry - Gray Mason &c - Modern Poetry says he one day at our house, is like Modern Gardening, every thing now is raised by a hot bed;...Samuel Johnson William Mason Print: Book
1700-1799'1: August 1779.] Johnson has been diverting himself with imitating Potter's Aeschylus in a translation of some verses of Euripides - he has translated them seriously bes...Samuel Johnson Aeschylus Print: Book
1700-1799'1: August 1779.] Johnson has been diverting himself with imitating Potter's Aeschylus in a translation of some verses of Euripides - he has translated them seriously bes...Samuel Johnson Euripides Print: Book
1700-1799'I had lent him "An Account of Scotland, in 1702," written by a man of various enquiry, an English chaplain to a regiment stationed there. JOHNSON. "It is sad stuff, Sir,...Samuel Johnson Martin Martin Description of the Western Isles of Scotland 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 Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Englan...Print: Book


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