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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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 ...James Boswell James Thomson[letters to his sister and accounts by them of his...Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'This violence [of Dr Johnson against Rousseau] seemed very strange to me, who had read many of Rousseau's animated writings with great pleasure, and even edification; ha...James Boswell Jean Jacques RousseauEmilePrint: Book
1700-1799'This violence [of Dr Johnson against Rousseau] seemed very strange to me, who had read many of Rousseau's animated writings with great pleasure, and even edification; ha...James Boswell Jean Jacques RousseauDiscourse on InequalityPrint: Book
1700-1799'I mentioned Jeremy Taylor's using, in his forms of prayer, "I am the chief of sinners", and other such self-condemning expressions. "Now, (said I) this cannot be said wi...James Boswell Jeremy TaylorGolden Grove; or a Manuall of daily prayers and li...Print: Book
1700-1799'I mentioned Sir John Dalrymple's "Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland", and his discoveries to the prejudice of Lord Russel and Algernon Sydney. Johnson. " Why, Sir, ev...James Boswell John DalrympleMemoirs of Great Britain and Ireland Print: Book
1700-1799'David Hume and John Dryden are at present my companions'James Boswell John Dryden[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'I told him that from reading Gay's writings, I had taken an affection to his Grace's family from my earliest years.'James Boswell John Gay[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'Let me add, that Hawkesworth's imitations of Johnson are sometimes so happy,that it is extremely difficult to distinguish them, with certainty, from the compositions of ...James Boswell John HawkesworthAdventurer, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'In this [producing a biography of Johnson] he has not been very successful, as I have found upon a perusal of those papers, which have been since transferred to me. Sir ...James Boswell John HawkinsLife of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1700-1799I have read, conversed, and thought much upon the subject, and would recommend to all who are capable of conviction, an excellent Tract by my learned and ingenious friend...James Boswell John RanbyDoubts on the Abolition of the Slave TradePrint: Pamphlet
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...James Boswell John Scott[Elegies]Print: Book
1700-1799'that gentleman [Dr Shebbeare], whatever objections were made to him, had knowledge and abilities much above the class of ordinary writers, and deserves to be remembered ...James Boswell John ShebbeareLetters on the English NationPrint: Book
1700-1799'I have no doubt that a good many sermons were composed for Taylor [with whom Johnson and Boswell were staying] by Johnson. At this time I found, upon his table, a part o...James Boswell John TaylorSermons left for publication by the Reverend John ...Print: Book
1700-1799'A distinguished authour in "The Mirror", a periodical paper, published at Edinburgh, has imitated Johnson very closely. Thus, in No. 16,-- "The effects of the return o...James Boswell John YoungCriticism on Gray's Elegy in a Country ChurchyardPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'DR. MAYO (to Dr. Johnson). "Pray, Sir, have you read Edwards, of New England, on "Grace"?" JOHNSON. "No, Sir". BOSWELL. "It puzzled me so much as to the freedom of the h...James Boswell Jonathan Edwards[on Grace]Print: Book
1700-1799'I returned to my friend's chambers and we read some of Mr Addison's papers in "The Spectator" with infinite relish'James Boswell Joseph AddisonThe SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'It has of late been the fashion to compare the style of Addison and Johnson, and to depreciate, I think very unjustly, the style of Addison as nerveless and feeble, beca...James Boswell Joseph Addison[essays]Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1700-1799'I expressed a liking for Mr. Francis Osborne's works, and asked him what he thought of that writer. He answered, "A conceited fellow. Were a man to write so now, the boy...James Boswell Joseph AddisonSpectator, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'He said, Dr. Joseph Warton was a very agreeable man, and his "Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope," a very pleasing book. I wondered that he delayed so long to give...James Boswell Joseph WartonEssay on the Genius and Writings of PopePrint: Book
1700-1799'He censured Ruffhead's "Life of Pope"; -and said, "he knew nothing of Pope, and nothing of poetry." He praised Dr. Joseph Warton's "Essay on Pope"; but said, he supposed...James Boswell Joseph WartonEssay on the Genius and Writings of PopePrint: Book


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