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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'On Monday, April 29, he and I made an excursion to Bristol, where I was entertained with seeing him enquire upon the spot, into the authenticity of 'Rowley's Poetry,' as...Samuel Johnson Thomas Chatterton[poems supposedly by Thomas Rowley]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Johnson said of Chatterton, "This is the most extraordinary young man that has encountered my knowledge. It is wonderful how the whelp has written such things".' Samuel Johnson Thomas Chatterton[poems supposedly by Thomas Rowley]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'On Tuesday the 5th of July, I again visited Johnson. He told me he had looked into the poems of a pretty voluminous writer, Mr. (now Dr.) John Ogilvie, one of the Presby...Samuel Johnson John Ogilvie[poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'On Thursday, July 28, we again supped in private at the Turk's Head coffee-house. Johnson. "Swift has a higher reputation than he deserves. His excellence is strong sens...Samuel Johnson James Thomson[poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'He talked of Mr. Blacklock's poetry, so far as it was descriptive of visible objects; and observed, that "as its author had the misfortune to be blind, we may be absolut...Samuel Johnson Thomas Blacklock[poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'Buchanan (he observed,) has fewer [italics] centos [end italics] than any modern Latin poet. He not only had great knowledge of the Latin language, but was a great poeti...Samuel Johnson George Buchanan[poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'I have read your kind letter much more than the elegant Pindar which it accompanied'. Samuel Johnson Pindar[poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'We talked of Flatman's Poems; and Mrs. Thrale observed, that Pope had partly borrowed from him "The dying Christian to his Soul". Johnson repeated Rochester's verses upo...Samuel Johnson Thomas Flatman[Poems]Print: Book
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 Mark Akenside[Poems]Print: Book
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 William Mason[Poems]Print: 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'He [Johnson] observed, that a gentleman of eminence in literature [Thomas Warton] had got into a bad style of poetry of late. "He puts (said he) a very common thing in a...Samuel Johnson Thomas Warton[poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'Talking of Rochester's Poems, he said, he had given them to Mr. Steevens to castrate for the edition of the poets, to which he was to write Prefaces. Dr. Taylor (the onl...Samuel Johnson John Wilmot, Lord Rochester[Poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'I asked whether Prior's Poems were to be printed entire: Johnson said they were. I mentioned Lord Hailes's censure of Prior, in his Preface to a collection of "Sacred Po...Samuel Johnson Matthew Prior[Poems]Print: Book
'We had a quiet comfortable meeting at Mr. Dilly's; nobody there but ourselves. Mr. Dilly mentioned somebody having wished that Milton's "Tractate on Education" should be...Samuel Johnson Isaac Watts[Poems]Print: Book
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[poetry]Print: Book
'[from Bennet Langton's collection of 1780 Johnsoniana, passed to Boswell] Of the Preface to Capel's "Shakspeare", he said, "If the man would have come to me, I would hav...Samuel Johnson Capel[Preface to edition of Shakespeare]Print: Book
1700-1799'Oct. 25. Wednesday. I went with the Prior to St. Cloud, to see Dr. Hooke.—We walked round the palace, and had some talk.—I dined with our whole company at the Monastery....Samuel Johnson John Dryden[preface to his 'Poetical Miscellanies', vol. 3]Print: Book
1700-1799'He was first taught to read English by Dame Oliver, a widow, who kept a school for young children in Lichfield. He told me she could read the black letter, and asked him...Samuel Johnson [reading lessons]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 [romances of chivalry]Print: Book


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