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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'Dr. Mayo having asked Johnson's opinion of Soame Jenyns's "View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion";--JOHNSON. "I think it a pretty book; not very theolo...James Boswell Soame JenynsView of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Rel...Print: Book
1700-1799'Soon after this time I had an opportunity of seeing, by means of one of his friends, a proof that his talents, as well as his obliging service to authours, were ready as...James Boswell George CrabbeVillage, TheManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I talked to him [Johnson] of Forster's "Voyage to the South Seas", which pleased me; but I found he did not like it. "Sir, (said he,) there is a great affectation of fin...James Boswell George ForsterVoyage Round the World in his Britannic Majesty's ...Print: Book
1700-1799'When I read this [Johnson's argument regarding a legal case on the liberty of the pulpit in which Boswell was involved] to Mr. Burke, he was highly pleased, and exclaime...James Boswell Samuel Johnson[a legal argument]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'When I pointed out to him in the newspaper one of Mr. Grattan's animated and glowing speeches, in favour of the freedom of Ireland, in which this expression occurred (I ...James Boswell [a newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'[referring to a dispute over whether Johnson wrote certain papers in "The Adventurer"] Mrs Williams told me that, "as he had [italics] given [end italics] those Essays t...James Boswell James Boswell[account given to him by Mrs Williams]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'[on Good Friday] We went to church both in the morning and evening. In the interval between the two services we did not dine; but he read in the Greek New Testament, and...James Boswell [unknown][books belonging to Johnson]Print: Book
1700-1799'These Voyages, (pointing to the three large volumes of "Voyages to the South Sea", which were just come out) who will read them through? A man had better work his way be...James Boswell [books of Voyages to the South Seas]Print: Book
1700-1799'At night at home, I read the Church service by myself with great devotion'James Boswell [n/a][Church service]Print: Book
1700-1799'In Archbishop Laud's Diary I found the following passage, which I read to Dr. Johnson: "1623. February 1, Sunday. I stood by the most illustrious Prince Charles, at d...James Boswell William Laud[diary]Print: Book
1700-1799'In his [Johnson's] manuscript diary of this year, there is the following entry: "Nov. 27. Advent Sunday. I considered that this day, being the beginning of the eccles...James Boswell Samuel Johnson[diary]Manuscript: Unknown
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'Talking of birds, I mentioned Mr. Daines Barrington's ingenions Essay against the received notion of their migration'.James Boswell Daines Barrington[Essay on bird migration]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'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'all the esays [in the "Universal Visitor"] marked with two [italics] asterisks [end italics] have been ascribed to him; but I am confident, from internal evidence, that ...James Boswell Samuel Johnson[essays]Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'[in a conversation about journals, Boswell said] "And as a lady adjusts her dress before a mirrour, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal." I next year...James Boswell Francis Atterbury[Funeral Sermon for Lady Cutts]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 Henry Mackenzie[imitation of Johnson]Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'From one of his Journals I transcribed what follows : "At church, Oct.—65. " To avoid all singularity; [italics] Bonaventura [end italics] " To come in before ser...James Boswell Samuel Johnson[journal]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I mentioned Elwal the heretick, whose trial Sir John Pringle had given me to read.' James Boswell [unknown][legal trial papers]Unknown


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