Reading Experience Database Browse Reader Readings Langton Bennet

√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1700-1799	'He spoke slightingly of Dyer's "Fleece".— "The subject, Sir, cannot be made poetical. How can a man write poeticall...	Bennet Langton	James Grainger	Sugar Cane, The	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Langton. "There is not one bad line in that poem [Goldsmith's 'The Traveller']— no one of Dryden's careless verses....	Bennet Langton	Oliver Goldsmith	Traveller, The	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'JOHNSON. "Sir William Temple was the first writer who gave cadence to English prose. Before his time they were carele...	Bennet Langton	Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] 'A gentleman, by no means deficient in literatur...	Bennet Langton	Clenardus	Greek Grammar	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Mr. Langton, when a very young man, read Dodsley...	Bennet Langton	Robert Dodsley	Cleone, a Tragedy	Print: Book