Evidence: | 'Dr Percy, the Bishop of Dromore, who was long intimately acquainted with him, and has preserved a few anecdotes concerning him, regretting that he was not a more diligent collector, informs me, that "When a boy he was immoderately fond of reading romances of chivalry, and he retained his fondness for them through life; so that (adds his Lordship) spending part of a summer at my parsonage-house in the country, he chose for his regular reading the old Spanish romance of "Felixmarte of Hircania", in folio, which he read quite through. Yet I have heard him attribute to these extravagant fictions that unsettled turn of mind which prevented his ever fixing in any profesion'. |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1712 and 18 Sep 1727 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | other location: home of Dr Percy | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Samuel Johnson |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 18 Sep 1709 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | later writer |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Melchor de Ortega |
Title: | Felixmarte de Hircania |
Genre: | Fiction, romances |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 20707 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | James Boswell | |
Editor: | R. W. Chapman | |
Title: | Life of Johnson | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 1980 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 36 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | James Boswell, R. W. Chapman (ed.), Life of Johnson (Oxford, 1980), p. 36, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20707, accessed: 19 April 2024 |
Originally published 1791. |
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