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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'I shewed him some verses on Lichfield by Miss Seward, which I had that day received from her, and had the pleasure to hear him approve of them. He confirmed to me the tr...Samuel Johnson Anna Seward'Elegy on Captain Cook'Print: Unknown
1700-1799'I shewed him some verses on Lichfield by Miss Seward, which I had that day received from her, and had the pleasure to hear him approve of them. He confirmed to me the tr...James Boswell Anna Seward[poem on Lichfield]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799' [Johnson having asked for details about Lord Peterborough] "But, (said his Lordship [Lord Eliot,) the best account of Lord Peterborough that I have happened to meet wit...Lord Eliot Daniel DefoeMemoirs of Captain George CarletonPrint: Book
1700-1799' [Johnson having asked for details about Lord Peterborough] "But, (said his Lordship [Lord Eliot,) the best account of Lord Peterborough that I have happened to meet wit...Samuel Johnson Daniel DefoeMemoirs of Captain George CarletonPrint: Book
1700-1799'[letter from Johnson to Dr Brocklesby] Tell Dr. Heberden, that in the coach I read "Ciceronianus" which I concluded as I entered Lichfield. My affection and understandin...Samuel Johnson Desiderius Erasmus CiceronianusPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Letter from Johnson to John Nichols] At Ashbourne, where I had very little company, I had the luck to borrow "Mr. Bowyer's Life"; a book so full of contemporary history...Samuel Johnson [Mr Bowyer's Life]Print: Book
1700-1799'Still [in his last days] his love of literature did not fail. A very few days before his death he transmitted to his friend Mr. John Nichols, a list of the authours of t...Samuel Johnson Universal history, from the earliest account of ti...Print: Book
1700-1799'During his sleepless nights he amused himself by translating into Latin verse, from the Greek, many of the epigrams in the "Anthologia"'.Samuel Johnson Anthologia GraecaPrint: Book
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'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'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 Vicesimus KnoxEssays Moral and Literary 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 John YoungCriticism on Gray's Elegy in a Country ChurchyardPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'when talking on the subject of prayer [to Johnson on his deathbed], Dr. Brocklesby repeated from Juvenal,-- "Orandum est, ut sit mens sana in corpore sano", and s...Dr Brocklesby JuvenalTenth SatirePrint: Unknown
1700-1799'when talking on the subject of prayer [to Johnson on his deathbed], Dr. Brocklesby repeated from Juvenal,-- "Orandum est, ut sit mens sana in corpore sano", and s...Samuel Johnson JuvenalTenth SatirePrint: Unknown
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'Whilst confined by his last illness, it was his regular practice to have the church-service read to him, by some attentive and friendly Divine. The Rev. Mr. Hoole perfor...John Hoole the LitanyPrint: Book
1700-1799'Whilst confined by his last illness, it was his regular practice to have the church-service read to him, by some attentive and friendly Divine. The Rev. Mr. Hoole perfor...Samuel Johnson the LitanyPrint: Book
1700-1799'He seriously entertained the thought of translating "Thuanus". He often talked to me on the subject; and once, in particular, when I was rather wishing that he would fav...Samuel Johnson Jacques-Auguste de Thou Print: Book
1700-1799'He pressed me to study Dr. Clarke and to read his Sermons. I asked him why he pressed Dr. Clarke, an Arian. "Because, (said he) he is fullest on the propitiatory sacrifi...Samuel Johnson Samuel ClarkeSermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Rousseau says that the Man who finding his Affairs embarrassed - puts an end to his own Life; is like one who finding his House in Disorder sets it on Fire in stead of s...Hester Lynch Thrale Jean Jacques RousseauLa Nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book


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