| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Christopher Thomson was a "zealous" Methodist until he discovered Shakespeare, Miilton, Sterne and Dr Johnson at a ci... | Christopher Thomson | Samuel Johnson | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen... | Thomas Jones | Samuel Johnson | Lives of the Poets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics. Among these may b... | John Cole | Samuel Johnson | Rasselas | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi... | Janet Hamilton | Samuel Johnson | The Rambler | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, might have been the serial versions or, more likely, bound as a book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 9 January 1821: 'Dined. Read Johnson's "Vanity of Human Wishes"... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Samuel Johnson | The Vanity of Human Wishes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different L... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Samuel Johnson | unknown | |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Murray, a Glasgow woodcarver, represented the kind of reader Dent and Rhys were trying to reach. He credited Ev... | James Murray | Samuel Johnson | Rasselas | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ... | William Robertson Nicoll | Samuel Johnson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In 1768, Burney read in rapid succession Elizabeth and Richard Griffith's "A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry ... | Frances Burney | Samuel Johnson | Rasselas | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I send you by George (who in Fred?s absence on business, is kind enough to be the bearer of this) the volume which con... | Charles Dickens | Samuel Johnson | An account of the life of Mr. Richard Savage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "After waiting a considerable period for the remittance, the box was forced, and found to contain a vast quantity of b... | John Bedford Leno | Samuel Johnson | Lives of the Poets | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | "For [Sir James] Fellowes, a prospective biographer ... [Hester Lynch Piozzi] annotated books by and about herself: Na... | Hester Lynch Piozzi | Samuel Johnson | Letters | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson discusses extensive annotations by Hester Lynch Piozzi in 1818 copy of Rasselas in the Houghton Library,... | Hester Lynch Piozzi | Samuel Johnson | Rasselas | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson notes exception to William Beckford's usual practice of "only occasionally" adding comments to his books... | William Beckford | Samuel Johnson | Diary of a Journey into North Wales | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Burney haunted the Thrales' library at Streatham, hiding her book when a man appeared: "she instantly put away [her] ... | Frances Burney | Samuel Johnson | Life of Waller | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Though I have constantly been a purchaser of the Ramblers from the first five that you were so kind as to present me ... | Samuel Richardson | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | '... I also enlarged my acquaintance with English literature, read Johnson's "Lives of the Poets", and, as a consequen... | Samuel Bamford | Samuel Johnson | Lives of the poets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, ... | Christopher Thomson | [Samuel?] Johnson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mary reads greek & Rassalas in the evening Hookham calls.' | Mary Godwin | Samuel Johnson | Rasselas | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mary reads greek and Rassalas in the evening Hookham calls - M. reads the Sorcerer'. | Mary Godwin | Samuel Johnson | Rasselas | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the room is a library to which we can at any time resort, consisting of Tillotson, Blair, Howe and Watt's Sermons,... | John Cole | Samuel Johnson | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'There, I flatter myself I have constructed you a Smartish Letter, considering my want of Materials. But like my dear ... | Jane Austen | Samuel Johnson | Letter to Boswell, 4 July 1774 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Samuel Johnson | The Works of the Late Reverend Mr Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'a wet day have finished the life of savage in Johnsons "lives of the poets"' | John Clare | Samuel Johnson | The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It [central London] was truly a wonder world, for I seeing it not merely with my eyes of flesh but with the eyes of h... | Thomas A. Jackson | Samuel Johnson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | J.H. Ewing's diary entry, July 23: 'Johnson's Meditations' | Juliana Horatia Ewing | Samuel Johnson | Prayers and Meditations [?] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the ... | Elizabeth Sewell | Samuel Johnson | The Rambler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Perused Johnson's "London", and "Vanity of Human Wishes". His Numbers are strong in sense, and smooth in flow; but w... | Thomas Green | Samuel Johnson | London | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Perused Johnson's "London", and "Vanity of Human Wishes". His Numbers are strong in sense, and smooth in flow; but wa... | Thomas Green | Samuel Johnson | Vanity of Human Wishes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked over Johnson's vigorous defence of Shakespear against the charge of violating, whether from neglect or disdain... | Thomas Green | Samuel Johnson | Preface to Shakespeare | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished a cursory perusal of Johnson's "Lives of the Poets", with a view to the principles on which his critical dec... | Thomas Green | Samuel Johnson | Lives of the Poets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read the Rambler - S reads Montaigne's essays' | Mary Godwin | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, could have been original periodicals or later collected volumes |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [Samuel] Johnson | Lives [of the most eminent English poets] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the memoirs - of Cumberland - read the Rambler' | Mary Shelley | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Sept. 16th. Rise at nine -- Breakfast -- Read Rasselas -- & De l'origine de l'inegalite
[d]es Hommes'. | Claire Clairmont | Samuel Johnson | The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical, possibly bound as a book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Rev Charles Burney's] Abridgement of Pearson's Exposition of the Creed, is printed, though not yet published. He gav... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Samuel Johnson | Dictionary of the English Language, A | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Adam Smith, Sir [-] informed me, was no admirer of the Rambler or the Idler, but was pleased with the pamphlet respec... | Adam Smith | Samuel Johnson | Thoughts On the Late Transactions Respecting Falkland's Islands | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Do you not think the contrast of the manners between Melbourne House and Devonshire House [in "Glenarvon"] well drawn... | | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'In this [producing a biography of Johnson] he has not been very successful, as I have found upon a perusal of those p... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [papers left at his death] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'He appears, from his early notes or memorandums in my possession, to have at various times attempted, or at least pla... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [memoranda of his reading] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'The hand-writing [in the original sketch for "Irene"] is very difficult to read, even by those who were best acquaint... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [original notes for "Irene"] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'The hand-writing [in the original sketch for "Irene"] is very difficult to read, even by those who were best acquaint... | Mr Langton | Samuel Johnson | [original notes for "Irene"] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'The hand-writing [in the original sketch for "Irene"] is very difficult to read, even by those who were best acquaint... | George III | Samuel Johnson | [original notes for "Irene"] | Manuscript: 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 aft... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Johnson | Irene | Manuscript: 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 aft... | Peter Garrick | Samuel Johnson | Irene | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Reverend Dr Douglas, now Bishop of Salisbury, to whom I am indebted for some obliging communications, was then a ... | John Douglas | Samuel Johnson | London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'This Epitaph [on 'Philips, a musician'] is so exquisitely beautiful that I remember even Lord Kames, strangely prejud... | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Samuel Johnson | Epitaph on Philips, a Musician | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Sir Joshua Reynolds told me, that upon his return from Italy he met with it [Johnson's "Life of Savage"] in Devonshir... | Joshua Reynolds | Samuel Johnson | Life of Savage | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr Taylor told me, that Johnson sent his [italics] Plan [end italics; for Johnson's dictionary] to him in manuscript,... | 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,... | 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 dictionar... | John Boyle, 5th Earl of Orrery | Samuel Johnson | [Plan or prospectus for his dictionary] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'His "Vanity of Human Wishes" has less of common life, but more of a philosophick dignity than his "London". More read... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Vanity of Human Wishes, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'His "Vanity of Human Wishes" has less of common life, but more of a philosophick dignity than his "London". More read... | David Garrick | Samuel Johnson | Vanity of Human Wishes, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'His "Vanity of Human Wishes" has less of common life, but more of a philosophick dignity than his "London". More read... | David Garrick | Samuel Johnson | London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal. | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'he was not altogether unprepared as a periodical writer; for I have in my possession a small duodecimo volume, in whi... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [notes collected for periodical articles] | Print: UnknownManuscript: duodecimo book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mrs Johnson, in whose judgement and taste he had great confidence, said to him, after a few numbers of "The Rambler" ... | Elizabeth Johnson | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'I profess myself to have ever had a profound veneration for the astonishing force and vivacity of mind which "The Ram... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | '["Rambler"] No 32 on patience, even under extreme misery, is wonderfully lofty, and as much above the rant of stoicis... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have seen some volumes of Dr Young's copy of "The Rambler", in which he has marked the pasages which he thought par... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have seen some volumes of Dr Young's copy of "The Rambler", in which he has marked the pasages which he thought par... | Edward Young | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | '[Robert Dodsley] then told Dr Adams, that Lord Chesterfield had shewn him the letter [in which Johnson refused his pa... | Robert Dodsley | Samuel Johnson | [letter from Johnson to Lord Chesterfield] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | '[Robert Dodsley] then told Dr Adams, that Lord Chesterfield had shewn him the letter [in which Johnson refused his pa... | Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | Samuel Johnson | [letter from Johnson to Lord Chesterfield] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'In one of his little memorandum-books I find the following hints for his intended "Review or Literary Journal":
"[it... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [memoranda for a projected literary journal] | Manuscript: Codex, memorandum book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The part of your "Dictionary" which you have favoured me with the sight of has given me such an idea of the whole, th... | Thomas Birch | Samuel Johnson | Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Mr Charles Burney] had been so much delighted with Johnson's "Rambler" and the "Plan" of his "Dictionary", that when... | Charles Burney | Samuel Johnson | [Plan for his dictionary] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Mr Charles Burney] had been so much delighted with Johnson's "Rambler" and the "Plan" of his "Dictionary", that when... | Charles Burney | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Let the Preface [to Johnson's Dictionary] be attentively perused, in which is given, in a clear, strong, and glowing ... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'all the esays [in the "Universal Visitor"] marked with two [italics] asterisks [end italics] have been ascribed to hi... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [essays] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Yet there are in the "Idler" several papers which shew as much profundity of thought, and labour of language, as any ... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Idler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'This Tale ["Rasselas"], with all the charms of oriental imagery, and all the force and beauty of which the English la... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts discussed and quoted from at length in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Samuel Johnson, Rasselas, ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Johnson | Rasselas | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts discussed and quoted from at length in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Samuel Johnson, Life of Sa... | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Johnson | Life of [Richard] Savage | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts discussed and quoted from in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Engli... | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Johnson | Preface to Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts discussed and quoted from in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Engli... | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Johnson | Plan [for Dictionary] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [under heading 'Johnson on Othello]: 'Consulted original ed. to see if Raleigh misses out much. Naturally J. is stupid... | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Johnson | remarks on Othello | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I at this time kept up a very frequent correspondence with Sir David [Dalrymple]; and I read to Dr. Johnson to-night ... | David Dalrymple | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'I at this time kept up a very frequent correspondence with Sir David [Dalrymple]; and I read to Dr. Johnson to-night ... | David Dalrymple | Samuel Johnson | History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was much pleased to find myself with Johnson at Greenwich, which he celebrates in his "London" as a favourite scene... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He wrote a review of Grainger's "Sugar Cane, a Poem", in the "London Chronicle". He told me, that Dr. Percy wrote the... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | London Chronicle [review of Grainger's "Sugar Cane, a poem"] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'From one of his Journals I transcribed what follows :
"At church, Oct.—65.
" To avoid all singularity; [italics... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [journal] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'He allowed high praise to Thomson, as a poet; but when one of the company said he was also a very good man, our moral... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Lives of the Poets | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After dinner our conversation first turned upon Pope. Johnson said, his characters of men were admirably drawn, those... | Alexander Pope | Samuel Johnson | London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'His description of its [the situation in the Falklands] miseries in this pamphlet ['Thoughts on the late Transactions... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Thoughts on the late Transactions respecting Falkland's Islands | |
| 1700-1799 | 'We talked of his two political pamphlets, "The False Alarm," and "Thoughts concerning Falkland's Islands." Johnson. "... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Thoughts on the Late Transactions respecting Falkland's Islands | |
| 1700-1799 | 'We talked of his two political pamphlets, "The False Alarm," and "Thoughts concerning Falkland's Islands." Johnson. "... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | False Alarm, The | |
| 1700-1799 | 'At this time it appears from his "Prayers and Meditations," that he had been more than commonly diligent in religious... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Prayers and Meditations | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson, though remarkable for his great variety of composition, never exercised his talents in fable, except we allo... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [tale in Mrs Williams's 'Miscellanies'] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson, though remarkable for his great variety of composition, never exercised his talents in fable, except we allo... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [manuscript plan for a fable] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Letter from Johnson to Boswell] Last night I corrected the last page of our "Journey to the Hebrides".' | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. | Print: proofs |
| 1700-1799 | 'In his [Johnson's] manuscript diary of this year, there is the following entry:
"Nov. 27. Advent Sunday. I conside... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [diary] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Letter from Boswell to Johnson] Be pleased to accept of my best thanks for your "Journey to the Hebrides", which cam... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Letter from Boswell to Johnson] Lord Hailes writes to me [...] "I am singularly obliged to Dr. Johnson for accurate ... | David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes | Samuel Johnson | [Latin verses upon Inchkenneth] | Manuscript: Unknown, in latin |
| 1700-1799 | 'His "Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland" is a most valuable performance. It abounds in extensive philosophica... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'His "Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland" is a most valuable performance. It abounds in extensive philosophica... | Dr Orme | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The observations of my friend Mr. Dempster in a letter written to me, soon after he had read Dr. Johnson's book, are ... | Mr Dempster | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr. Knox, another native of Scotland, who has since made the same tour, and published an account of it, is equally li... | Mr Knox | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr. Tytler, the acute and able vindicator of Mary Queen of Scots, in one of his letters to Mr. James Elphinstone, pub... | Mr Tytler | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Unfavourable as I am constrained to say my opinion of this pamphlet [Johnson's 'Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the ... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress | |
| 1700-1799 | Unfavourable as I am constrained to say my opinion of this pamphlet [Johnson's 'Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the ... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress | Print: proof leaves of a pamphlet with handwritten corrections |
| 1700-1799 | '[quoting from the pamphlet "A Letter to Dr. Samuel Johnson, occasioned by his late Political Publications." by joseph... | Joseph Towers | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | '[quoting from the pamphlet "A Letter to Dr. Samuel Johnson, occasioned by his late Political Publications." by joseph... | Joseph Towers | Samuel Johnson | False Alarm, The | |
| 1700-1799 | '[quoting from the pamphlet "A Letter to Dr. Samuel Johnson, occasioned by his late Political Publications." by joseph... | Joseph Towers | Samuel Johnson | Patriot, The | |
| 1700-1799 | '[quoting from the pamphlet "A Letter to Dr. Samuel Johnson, occasioned by his late Political Publications." by Joseph... | Joseph Towers | Samuel Johnson | Thoughts On the Late Transactions Respecting Falkland's Islands | |
| 1700-1799 | 'I found his " Journey" the common topick of conversation in London at this time, wherever I happened to be. At one of... | William Murray, First Earl Mansfield | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson was here solaced with an elegant entertainment, a very accomplished family, and much good company; among whom... | Mr Harris | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'That ingenious and elegant gentleman's [Shenstone's] opinion of Johnson appears in one of his letters to Mr. Greaves,... | William Shenstone | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Sunday, March 31, I called on him, and shewed him as a curiosity which I had discovered, his "Translation of Lobo'... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Translation of Lobo's Account of Abyssinia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When I read this [Johnson's argument regarding a legal case on the liberty of the pulpit in which Boswell was involve... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [a legal argument] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[letter from Boswell to Johnson] Your paper on "Vicious Intromission" is a noble proof of what you can do even in Sco... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [paper on an aspect of Scottish law] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | ' [letter from Boswell to Johnson] I have not yet distributed all your books [presumably a new edition of the "Journey... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [letter from Boswell to Johnson] I have not yet distributed all your books [presumably a new edition of the "Journey... | James Burnett, Lord Monboddo | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [letter from Sir Alexander Dick to Johnson] I had yesterday the honour of receiving your book of your "Journey to th... | Alexander Dick | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[letter from Boswell to Johnson] You forget that Mr. Shaw's "Erse Grammar" was put into your hands by myself last yea... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [proposals for the publication of William Shaw's 'Erse Grammar'] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[letter from Boswell to Johnson] I lately read Rasselas over again with great satisfaction'. | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia , the | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Monday, September 15, Dr. Johnson observed, that every body commended such parts of his "Journey to the Western Is... | Edmund Burke | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Monday, September 15, Dr. Johnson observed, that every body commended such parts of his "Journey to the Western Is... | Mr Jackson | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Monday, September 15, Dr. Johnson observed, that every body commended such parts of his "Journey to the Western Is... | Mr Jones | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He [Johnson] wrote also "The Convict's Address to his unhappy Brethren", a sermon delivered by Dr. Dodd [ a clergyman... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [sermon written for Dr Dodd] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have no doubt that a good many sermons were composed for Taylor [with whom Johnson and Boswell were staying] by Joh... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [sermon written for John Taylor] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I told him, that his "Rasselas" had often made me unhappy; for it represented the misery of human life so well, and s... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia | Print: Book |
| | 'Looking at Messrs. Dilly's splendid edition of Lord Chesterfield's miscellaneous works, he laughed, and said, "Here n... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Johnson | [speeches attributed to Lord Chesterfield] | Print: Book |
| | '[letter from Boswell to Johnson] 'I am eager to see more of your Prefaces to the Poets; I solace myself with the few ... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Lives of the Poets | Print: proof sheets |
| | '[ letter from Boswell to Johnson] The Bishop, to whom I had the honour to be known several years ago, shews me much a... | Beilby Porteus | Samuel Johnson | Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets | Print: Book |
| | '[from the 1780 Johnsoniana passed to Boswell by Bennet Langton] 'When in good humour he would talk of his own writing... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| | '[from the 1780 Johnsoniana passed to Boswell by Bennet Langton] 'When in good humour he would talk of his own writing... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Johnson | Irene | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'So easy is his style in these "Lives", that I do not recollect more than three uncommon or learned words; one, when g... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Lives of the Poets | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Johnson was fair to Milton's poetic genius, despite hating his politics] Indeed even Dr. Towers, who may be consider... | Dr Towers | Samuel Johnson | Lives of the Poets | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ''It gives me much pleasure to observe, that however Johnson may have casually talked, yet when he sits, as "an ardent... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [Life of Young in 'Lives of the Poets'] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He talked little to us in the carriage, being chiefly occupied in reading Dr. Watson's second volume of "Chemical Ess... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Johnson | Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia | 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... | William Bewley | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: 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... | William Bewley | Samuel Johnson | Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A clergyman at Bath wrote to him, that in "The Morning Chronicle", a passage in "The Beauties of Johnson" [unauthoris... | Lancelot St Albyn | Samuel Johnson | [excerpt from a work, reprinted in the Bath 'Morning Chronicle'] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have this day read Rasselas which is a book I like as it leads to deep affection' | Elizabeth Gurney | Samuel Johnson | The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Two very valuable articles, I am sure, we have lost [when Johnson, dying, burnt many of his papers] , which were two ... | 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 th... | 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 - reve... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Another favourite Passage too in the same Author [Metastasio's Adriano]; which Baretti made his Pupil - my eldest Da... | 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 P... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | Irene: A Historical Tragedy | Print: Book |
| | 'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be
Fed & defended by the fe... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | Irene: A Historical Tragedy | Print: Book |
| | 'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | Irene: a Historical Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '1: August 1779.] Johnson has been diverting himself with imitating Potter's Aeschylus in a translation of some verses... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | [burlesque translation of Euripides in the manner of Potter] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'What a fine Book is "Law's Serious Call"! written with such force of Thinking, such purity of Style, & such penetrati... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: 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 o... | 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 hi... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | Lives of the Poets | Print: 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 Satire... | 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 Pen... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | [a story] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'I must write out Johnson's Latin Version of the Messiah from Pope, I obtained the Copy of a Clergyman here, one Mr Gr... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | [translation into Latin of Pope's 'Messiah'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 6 December 1792: 'Juvenal is a grand nervous Satirist — your refined cr... | Robert Southey | Samuel Johnson | London | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 6 December 1792: 'Juvenal is a grand nervous Satirist — your refined cr... | Robert Southey | Samuel Johnson | Vanity of Human Wishes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 21-22 November 1795, 'This is a foul country. the tinners inhabit the ... | Robert Southey | Samuel Johnson | A 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, cl... | Jane Austen | Samuel Johnson | Prose writings | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 13 June 1755:]
'How do you like Mr Johnson's Dictionary? I have only seen pa... | Elizabeth Carter | Samuel Johnson | Preface to Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 24 February 1756:]
'We have looked in Johnson [i.e. his Dictionary] for [ita... | Catherine Talbot and family | Samuel Johnson | Dictionary | Print: Book |