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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'At Leicester we read in the newspapers that Dr James was dead'. Samuel Johnson and James Boswell [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'On Sunday, March 31, I called on him, and shewed him as a curiosity which I had discovered, his "Translation of Lobo's Account of Abyssinia", which Sir John Pringle had ...James Boswell Samuel JohnsonTranslation of Lobo's Account of AbyssiniaPrint: Book
1700-1799'I mentioned Mr. Maclaurin's uneasiness on account of a degree of ridicule carelessly thrown on his deceased father, in Goldsmith's "History of Animated Nature", in which...Mr Maclaurin Oliver GoldsmithHistory of the Earth and Animated NaturePrint: Book
1700-1799'He recommended Dr. Cheyne's books. I said, I thought Cheyne had been reckoned whimsical. "So he was, (said he,) in some things; but there is no end of objections. There ...Samuel Johnson George CheyneEnglish Malady, The: or, A Treatise of Nervous Dis...Print: Book
1700-1799'He recommended Dr. Cheyne's books. I said, I thought Cheyne had been reckoned whimsical. "So he was, (said he,) in some things; but there is no end of objections. There ...Samuel Johnson George CheyneEssay on Health and Long LifePrint: Book
1700-1799'He [Joseph Simpson] wrote a tragedy on the story of Leonidas, entitled "The Patriot". He read it to a company of lawyers, who found so many faults, that he wrote it over...Joseph Simpson Joseph SimpsonPatriot, TheManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'[Dr Johnson] expressed his disapprobation of Dr. Hurd, for having published a mutilated edition under the title of "Select Works of Abraham Cowley". Mr. Murphy thought i...Mr Murphy Abraham CowleySelected WorksPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Dr Johnson] expressed his disapprobation of Dr. Hurd, for having published a mutilated edition under the title of "Select Works of Abraham Cowley". Mr. Murphy thought i...Samuel Johnson Abraham CowleySelected WorksPrint: Book
1700-1799'We talked of Flatman's Poems; and Mrs. Thrale observed, that Pope had partly borrowed from him "The dying Christian to his Soul". Johnson repeated Rochester's verses upo...Samuel Johnson Thomas Flatman[Poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'We talked of Flatman's Poems; and Mrs. Thrale observed, that Pope had partly borrowed from him "The dying Christian to his Soul". Johnson repeated Rochester's verses upo...Hester Lynch Thrale Thomas Flatman[Poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'We talked of Flatman's Poems; and Mrs. Thrale observed, that Pope had partly borrowed from him "The dying Christian to his Soul". Johnson repeated Rochester's verses upo...Hester Lynch Thrale Alexander Pope'Dying Christian to his Soul, The'Print: Unknown
1700-1799'Mr. Murphy said, that "The Memoirs of Gray's Life" set him much higher in his estimation than his poems did; "for you there saw a man constantly at work in literature". ...Mr Murphy Thomas Gray[Memoirs]Print: Book
1700-1799'Mr. Murphy said, that "The Memoirs of Gray's Life" set him much higher in his estimation than his poems did; "for you there saw a man constantly at work in literature". ...Mr Murphy Thomas Gray[Poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'Mr. Murphy said, that "The Memoirs of Gray's Life" set him much higher in his estimation than his poems did; "for you there saw a man constantly at work in literature". ...Samuel Johnson Thomas Gray[Memoirs]Print: Book
1700-1799'Mr. Murphy said, that "The Memoirs of Gray's Life" set him much higher in his estimation than his poems did; "for you there saw a man constantly at work in literature". ...Samuel Johnson Mark Akenside[Poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'Mr. Murphy said, that "The Memoirs of Gray's Life" set him much higher in his estimation than his poems did; "for you there saw a man constantly at work in literature". ...Samuel Johnson William Mason[Poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'Talking of the Reviews, Johnson said, "I think them very impartial: I do not know an instance of partiality". He mentioned what had passed upon the subject of the "Month...Samuel Johnson Monthly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Talking of the Reviews, Johnson said, "I think them very impartial: I do not know an instance of partiality". He mentioned what had passed upon the subject of the "Month...Samuel Johnson Critical ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Talking of "The Spectator", he said, "It is wonderful that there is such a proportion of bad papers, in the half of the work which was not written by Addison; for there ...Samuel Johnson Henry Grove'Novelty' [essay in The Spectator]Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Dr. Johnson said, "Thomson had a true poetical genius, the power of viewing every thing in a poetical light. His fault is such a cloud of words sometimes, that the sense...Samuel Johnson James Thomson[Poems]Print: Book


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