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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'Two very valuable articles, I am sure, we have lost [when Johnson, dying, burnt many of his papers] , which were two quarto volumes, containing a full, fair, and most pa...James Boswell Samuel Johnson[MS Autobiography]Manuscript: quarto volumes
1700-1799'one Day in the Year 1768 I saw some Verses with his name in a Magazine these are they [the poem follows] I thought they were not his so I asked him; A young fellow repli...Hester Lynch Thrale Samuel Johnson[verses printed in the Gentleman's Magazine]Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'that Piety which dictated the serious Papers in the Rambler will be for ever remembred [sic], for ever I think - revered. That ample Repository of religious Truth, moral...Hester Lynch Thrale Samuel JohnsonRambler, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Another favourite Passage too in the same Author [Metastasio's Adriano]; which Baretti made his Pupil - my eldest Daughter get by heart - Johnson translated into Blank ...Hester Lynch Thrale Samuel Johnson[translation of lines from Metastasio's 'Adriano']Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the Power it has over our Passions too; for nobody I beli...Hester Lynch Thrale Samuel JohnsonIrene: A Historical TragedyPrint: Book
'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be Fed & defended by the fearless Cock. whereas the Cock hates the Chickens,...Hester Lynch Thrale Samuel JohnsonIrene: A Historical Tragedy Print: Book
'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Original Composition I think, and Dr Swift's Ballad on the...Hester Lynch Thrale Samuel JohnsonIrene: a Historical TragedyPrint: Book
1700-1799'1: August 1779.] Johnson has been diverting himself with imitating Potter's Aeschylus in a translation of some verses of Euripides - he has translated them seriously bes...Hester Lynch Thrale Samuel Johnson[burlesque translation of Euripides in the manner ...Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'What a fine Book is "Law's Serious Call"! written with such force of Thinking, such purity of Style, & such penetration into human Nature; the Characters too so neatly, ...Hester Lynch Thrale Samuel JohnsonRambler, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'such is my Tenderness for Johnson, when he is out of my Sight I always keep his Books about me, which I never think of reading at any other Time: but they remind me of [...Hester Lynch Thrale Samuel Johnson Print: Book
1700-1799'Johnson's newly written Lives are delightful, but he is too hard on Prior's Alma: he will be keenly reproached for his Toryism, but what cares he? he calls himself a Tor...Hester Lynch Thrale Samuel JohnsonLives of the PoetsPrint: proof sheets
1700-1799'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satires & in Rubens's Painting, Cowley captivates my Heart...Hester Lynch Thrale Samuel Johnson[prose works]Print: Book
1700-1799'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Penseroso from the Verses at the beginning, Savage his ...Hester Lynch Thrale Samuel Johnson[a story]Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 21-22 November 1795, 'This is a foul country. the tinners inhabit the most agreable part of it for they live underground. ...Robert Southey Samuel JohnsonA Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland Print: Book
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1800-1849		'We know comparatively little of [Jane Austen's] literary tastes. Some are peculiar. Her fondness for the gentle, close truth and quiet power of Cowper is consistent; b...Jane Austen Samuel JohnsonProse writingsPrint: Unknown
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 13 June 1755:] 'How do you like Mr Johnson's Dictionary? I have only seen part of the Preface, which was like himself. I have ju...Elizabeth Carter Samuel JohnsonPreface to DictionaryPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 24 February 1756:] 'We have looked in Johnson [i.e. his Dictionary] for [italics] Athlete [end italics], no such word there, nor...Catherine Talbot and familySamuel JohnsonDictionaryPrint: Book
1850-1899'These last letters of Johnson are a treat to me. I enjoy poking out bits of news in them.'Emma Darwin Samuel JohnsonLetters of Samuel Johnson, LLD
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage. 8th May ’43
    Muriel Stevens in the Chair
1. Minutes of last meeting read & signed

[...] ...		Isabel Taylor Samuel Johnson[letter to Lord Chesterfield]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage. 8th May ’43
    Muriel Stevens in the Chair
1. Minutes of last meeting read & signed

[...] ...		Bruce Dilks Samuel JohnsonThe Vanity of Human Wishes: The Tenth Satire of Ju...Print: Book


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