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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thomson] Since I received your letter I have read his [T...James Boswell Joseph WartonEssay on the Genius and Writings of PopePrint: Book
'Johnson this year expressed great satisfaction at the publication of the first volume of "Discourses to the Royal Academy", by Sir Joshua Reynolds, whom he always consid...James Boswell Joshua ReynoldsDiscourses Delivered at the Royal AcademyPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Johnson said] "I see they have published a splendid edition of Akenside's works. One bad ode may be suffered; but a number of them together makes one sick." Boswell. "A...James Boswell Mark AkensidePleasures of Imagination, ThePrint: 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...James Boswell Matthew Prior[Poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'Mr. Seward mentioned to us the observations which he had made upon the strata of earth in volcanoes, from which it appeared, that they were so very different in depth at...James Boswell Patrick BrydoneTour Through Sicily and Malta. In A Series of Lett...Print: Book
1700-1799'[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thomson] Since I received your letter I have read his [T...James Boswell Patrick Murdoch[Life of Thomson, prefixed to an edition of 'The S...Print: Book
1700-1799' [letter from Boswell to Johnson] What do you say of Lord Chesterfield's "Memoirs and last Letters"?' James Boswell Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of ChesterfieldMemoirs and Last LettersPrint: Book
'On Friday, April 2, being Good-Friday, I visited him in the morning as usual; and finding that we insensibly fell into a train of ridicule upon the foibles of one of our...James Boswell Richard AllestreeGovernment of the Tongue, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'That learned and ingenious Prelate [Dr Hurd] it is well known published at one period of his life "Moral and Political Dialogues", with a woefully whiggish cast. Afterwa...James Boswell Richard HurdMoral and Political Dialogues: being the substance...Print: Book
1700-1799'I brought a volume of Dr. Hurd the Bishop of Worcester's "Sermons", and read to the company some passages from one of them, upon this text, "Resist the Devil, and he wil...James Boswell Richard HurdSermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799'[At the home of the Quaker Mr Lloyd] I having asked to look at Baskerville's edition of "Barclay's Apology", Johnson laid hold of it; and the chapter on baptism happenin...James Boswell Robert BarclayApology for the True Christian DivinityPrint: Book
1700-1799'He told me that "so long ago as 1748 he had read 'The Grave, a Poem', but did not like it much." I differed from him; for though it is not equal throughout, and is seldo...James Boswell Robert Blair'The Grave, a Poem'Print: Unknown
1700-1799'I shall now fulfil my promise of exhibiting specimens of various sorts of imitation of Johnson's style. In the "Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, 1787", there...James Boswell Robert Burrowes[Essay on Johnson's style]Print: Book
1700-1799'Mr Dodsley this year brought out his "Preceptor", oned of the most valuable books for the improvement of young minds that has appeared in any language'James Boswell Robert DodsleyPreceptor, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'We viewed a remarkable natural curiosity at Islam; two rivers bursting near each other from the rock, not from immediate springs, but after having run for many miles und...James Boswell Robert PlottNatural History of StaffordshirePrint: Book
1700-1799'I mentioned that I had in my possession the Life of Sir Robert Sibbald, the celebrated Scottish antiquary, and founder of the Royal College of Physicians at Edinburgh, i...James Boswell Robert Sibbald[manuscript Life]Manuscript: Unknown
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 Samuel Johnson[papers left at his death]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'He appears, from his early notes or memorandums in my possession, to have at various times attempted, or at least planned, a methodical course of study, according to com...James Boswell Samuel Johnson[memoranda of his reading]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'The hand-writing [in the original sketch for "Irene"] is very difficult to read, even by those who were best acquainted with Johnson's mode of penmanship which at all ti...James Boswell Samuel Johnson[original notes for "Irene"]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'His "Vanity of Human Wishes" has less of common life, but more of a philosophick dignity than his "London". More readers, therefore, will be delighted with the pointed s...James Boswell Samuel JohnsonVanity of Human Wishes, ThePrint: Unknown


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