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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'[EH having been expecting her brother back from India] Think, then, what I felt on reading in the newspaper of that ship being seen off the Cape in great distress; at le...Elizabeth Hamilton [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'"The Gentleman's Magazine", begun and carried on by Mr Edward Cave , under the name of SYLVANUS URBAN, had attracted the notice and esteem of Johnson, in an eminent degr...Samuel Johnson [n/a]Gentleman's Magazine, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Mr Peter Garrick told me, that Johnson and he went together to the Fountain tavern, and read it over, and that he afterwards solicited Mr Fleetwood, the patentee of Drur...Samuel Johnson Samuel JohnsonIreneManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Mr Peter Garrick told me, that Johnson and he went together to the Fountain tavern, and read it over, and that he afterwards solicited Mr Fleetwood, the patentee of Drur...Peter Garrick Samuel JohnsonIreneManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I myself recollect such impressions [of reverence, like Johnson displayed for the "Gentleman's Magazine"] from "The Scots Magazine", which was begun at Edinburgh in the ...James Boswell [n/a]Scot's Magazine, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'The Reverend Dr Douglas, now Bishop of Salisbury, to whom I am indebted for some obliging communications, was then a student at Oxford, and remembers well the effect whi...John Douglas Samuel JohnsonLondon: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of...Print: Unknown
1700-1799'This Epitaph [on 'Philips, a musician'] is so exquisitely beautiful that I remember even Lord Kames, strangely prejudiced as he was against Dr Johnson, was compelled to ...Henry Home, Lord Kames Samuel JohnsonEpitaph on Philips, a MusicianPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'I have read the Italian - nothing in it is well' Samuel Johnson [unknown]['The Italian' - unknown text]Unknown
1700-1799'Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand, than it becomes a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties'.Samuel Johnson Thomas Birch[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'Sir Joshua Reynolds told me, that upon his return from Italy he met with it [Johnson's "Life of Savage"] in Devonshire, knowing nothing of its authour [sic], and began t...Joshua Reynolds Samuel JohnsonLife of SavagePrint: Book
1700-1799'Dr Taylor told me, that Johnson sent his [italics] Plan [end italics; for Johnson's dictionary] to him in manuscript, for his perusal; and that when it was lying on his ...Dr Taylor Samuel Johnson[Plan or prospectus for his dictionary]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Dr Taylor told me, that Johnson sent his [italics] Plan [end italics; for Johnson's dictionary] to him in manuscript, for his perusal; and that when it was lying on his ...William Whitehead Samuel Johnson[Plan or prospectus for his dictionary]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'[extract of a letter from the Earl of Orrery to Dr Birch] I have just now seen the specimen of Mr Johnson's dictionary, addressed to Lord Chesterfield. I am much pleased...John Boyle, 5th Earl of Orrery Samuel Johnson[Plan or prospectus for his dictionary]Manuscript: Unknown
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'The authorities [for the definitions in Johnson's Dictionary] were copied from the books themselves, in which he had marked the passages with a black lead pencil, the tr...Samuel Johnson [unknown][sources for his Dictionary]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'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
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...David Garrick Samuel JohnsonVanity of Human Wishes, ThePrint: 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...David Garrick Samuel JohnsonLondon: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of...Print: Unknown
1700-1799'he was not altogether unprepared as a periodical writer; for I have in my possession a small duodecimo volume, in which he has written, in the form of Mr Locke's "Common...James Boswell Samuel Johnson[notes collected for periodical articles]Print: UnknownManuscript: duodecimo book


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