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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'Sir Joshua Reynolds praised "Mudge's Sermons". JOHNSON. "'Mudge's Sermons' are good, but not practical. He grasps more sense than he can hold; he takes more corn than he...Samuel Johnson Zachariah MudgeSermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Sir Joshua Reynolds praised "Mudge's Sermons". JOHNSON. "'Mudge's Sermons' are good, but not practical. He grasps more sense than he can hold; he takes more corn than he...Samuel Johnson Hugh BlairSermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Miss Hannah More has admirably described a [italics] Blue-stocking Club [end italics], in her "Bas Bleu", a poem in which many of the persons who were most conspicuous t...James Boswell Hannah MoreBas Bleu; or ConversationPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'that gentleman [Dr Shebbeare], whatever objections were made to him, had knowledge and abilities much above the class of ordinary writers, and deserves to be remembered ...James Boswell John ShebbeareLetters on the English NationPrint: Book
1700-1799'Johnson and Shebbeare were frequently named together, as having in former reigns had no predilection for the family of Hanover. The authour of the celebrated "Heroick Ep...James Boswell William MasonHeroick Epistle to Sir William ChambersPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'Johnson and Shebbeare were frequently named together, as having in former reigns had no predilection for the family of Hanover. The authour of the celebrated "Heroick Ep...Oliver Goldsmith William MasonHeroick Epistle to Sir William ChambersPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'Johnson praised the Earl of Carlisle's Poems, which his Lordship had published with his name, as not disdaining to be a candidate for literary fame. My friend was of opi...James Boswell William Whitehead'Elegy to Lord Villiers'Print: Unknown
1700-1799'Johnson praised the Earl of Carlisle's Poems, which his Lordship had published with his name, as not disdaining to be a candidate for literary fame. My friend was of opi...Samuel Johnson Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of CarlisleTragedies and PoemsPrint: Book
1700-1799'He talked little to us in the carriage, being chiefly occupied in reading Dr. Watson's second volume of "Chemical Essays", which he liked very well, and his own "Prince ...Samuel Johnson Samuel JohnsonRasselas, Prince of AbyssiniaPrint: Book
1700-1799'He talked little to us in the carriage, being chiefly occupied in reading Dr. Watson's second volume of "Chemical Essays", which he liked very well, and his own "Prince ...Samuel Johnson Richard WatsonChemical EssaysPrint: Book
1700-1799'[letter from Johnson to Thomas Astle] Your notes on Alfred appear to me very judicious and accurate, but they are too few. Many things familiar to you, are unknown to me...Samuel Johnson Thomas Astle[notes on the will of King Alfred]Print: Book
1700-1799'Dr. Burney related to Dr. Johnson the partiality which his writings had excited in a friend of Dr. Burney's, the late Mr. Bewley, well known in Norfolk by the name of th...William Bewley Samuel JohnsonRambler, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Dr. Burney related to Dr. Johnson the partiality which his writings had excited in a friend of Dr. Burney's, the late Mr. Bewley, well known in Norfolk by the name of th...William Bewley Samuel JohnsonPlan of a Dictionary of the English LanguagePrint: Book
1700-1799'A clergyman at Bath wrote to him, that in "The Morning Chronicle", a passage in "The Beauties of Johnson" [unauthorised collection of Johnson's words], article DEATH, ha...Lancelot St Albyn Samuel Johnson[excerpt from a work, reprinted in the Bath 'Morni...Print: Newspaper
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...Samuel Johnson George CrabbeVillage, TheManuscript: Unknown
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'Johnson thought the poems published as translations from Ossian had so little merit, that he said, 'Sir, a man might write such stuff for ever, if he would [italics]aban...Samuel Johnson James Macpherson[Ossian poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'He [Johnson] gave much praise to his friend, Dr. Burney's elegant and entertaining travels, and told Mr. Seward that he had them in his eye, when writing his "Journey to...Samuel Johnson Charles BurneyContinental Travels 1770-72Print: Book
1700-1799'Such was his sensibility, and so much was he affected by pathetick poetry, that, when he was reading Dr. Beattie's "Hermit" in my presence, it brought tears into his eye...Samuel Johnson James BeattieHermit, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'He disapproved much of mingling real facts with fiction. On this account he censured a book entitled "Love and Madness"'. Samuel Johnson Love and MadnessPrint: Book


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