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Record 22193

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'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 the [italics] Philosopher of Massingham [end italics]: who, from the "Ramblers" and Plan of his "Dictionary", and long before the authour's fame was established by the "Dictionary" itself, or any other work, had conceived such a reverence for him, that he urgently begged Dr. Burney to give him the cover of the first letter he had received from him, as a relick of so estimable a writer.'
Century: 1700-1799
Date: Until: 15 Apr 1755
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:William Bewley
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1726
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: writer and doctor
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

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Samuel Johnson
Title: Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language
Genre: Reference / General works, prospectus
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 22193  
Source - Print  
  Author: James Boswell
  Editor: R.W. Chapman
  Title: Life of Johnson
  Place of Publication: Oxford
  Date of Publication: 1980
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 1169-70
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: James Boswell, R.W. Chapman (ed.), Life of Johnson (Oxford, 1980), p. 1169-70, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=22193, accessed: 16 April 2024

Additional comments:

Originally published 1791.

 

 

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