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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'[Croft's 'Life of Young, adapted by Johnson for his 'Life'] has always appeared to me to have a considerable share of merit, and to display a pretty successful imitation...James Boswell Herbert CroftLife of YoungPrint: Book
1700-1799'[letter from Boswell, to Johnson] It gives me much pleasure to hear that a republication of "Isaac Walton's Lives" is intended. You have been in a mistake in thinking th...James Boswell Izaak WaltonLives of Dr John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr Richa...Print: Book
1700-1799'In my younger years I had read in the "Lives of the Convicts" so much about Tyburn that I had a sort of horrid eagerness to be there' James Boswell [unknown]Lives of the convictsPrint: Book, Pamphlet
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 Samuel JohnsonLives of the PoetsPrint: Book
'[letter from Boswell to Johnson] 'I am eager to see more of your Prefaces to the Poets; I solace myself with the few proof sheets which I have'.James Boswell Samuel JohnsonLives of the PoetsPrint: proof sheets
1700-1799'So easy is his style in these "Lives", that I do not recollect more than three uncommon or learned words; one, when giving an account of the approach of Waller's mortal ...James Boswell Samuel JohnsonLives of the PoetsPrint: 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 Theophilus CibberLives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Print: Book
1700-1799'"The London Chronicle", which was the only newspaper he constantly took in, being brought, the office of reading it aloud was assigned to me. I was diverted by his impat...James Boswell [n/a]London ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'On Saturday, April 3, the day after my arrival in London this year, I went to his house late in the evening, and sat with Mrs. Williams till he came home. I found in the...James Boswell London Chronicle Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'[Letter from Boswell to Johnson] The alarm of your late illness distressed me but a few hours ; for on the evening of the day that it reached me, I found it contradicte...James Boswell London ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'He wrote a review of Grainger's "Sugar Cane, a Poem", in the "London Chronicle". He told me, that Dr. Percy wrote the greatest part of this review; but, I imagine, he di...James Boswell Samuel JohnsonLondon Chronicle [review of Grainger's "Sugar Cane...Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'I was much pleased to find myself with Johnson at Greenwich, which he celebrates in his "London" as a favourite scene. I had the poem in my pocket, and read the lines al...James Boswell Samuel JohnsonLondon: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of...Print: Book
1700-1799'We may apply to him [Johnson] a sentence in Mr. Greville's "Maxims, Characters, and Reflections"; a book which is entitled to much more praise than it has received: "ARI...James Boswell Fulke GrevilleMaxims, Characters, and Reflections, Critical, Sat...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
1700-1799'Instead of melting down my materials into one mass, and constantly speaking in my own person, by which I might have appeared to have more merit in the execution of the w...James Boswell William MasonMemoirs of GrayPrint: 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
1850-1899'Her [Mrs Sheridan's] novel, entitled "Memoirs of Miss Sydney Biddulph", contains an excellent moral, while it inculcates a future state of retribution; and what it teac...James Boswell Frances SheridanMemoirs of Miss Sydney Biddulph, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'On Tuesday, July 18, I found tall Sir Thomas Robinson sitting with Johnson. Sir Thomas said, that the King of Prussia valued himself upon three things;—upon being a hero...James Boswell Frederick II King of PrussiaMemoirs of the house of Brandenburg. From the earl...Print: Book
1700-1799'Mr. Allen, the printer, brought a book on agriculture, which was printed, and was soon to be published. It was a very strange performance, the authour having mixed in it...James Boswell William MarshallMinutes of AgriculturePrint: 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


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