| Evidence: | 'Next morning at breakfast, [10th June 1784] he pointed out a passage in Savage's "Wanderer", saying, "These are fine verses". "If (said he) I had written with hostility of Warburton in my "Shakspeare", I should have quoted this couplet:--
'Here Learning, blinded first and then beguil'd,
Looks dark as Ignorance, as Fancy wild'.
You see they'd have fitted him to a T" (smiling.)' |
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| Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Until: 10 Jun 1784 | ||||||||||
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| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Samuel Johnson |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 18 Sep 1709 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | writer |
| Religion: | Anglican |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | n/a |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Richard Savage |
| Title: | Wanderer, The |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 22302 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | James Boswell | |
| Editor: | R.W. Chapman | |
| Title: | Life of Johnson | |
| Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
| Date of Publication: | 1980 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 1288 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | James Boswell, R.W. Chapman (ed.), Life of Johnson (Oxford, 1980), p. 1288, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=22302, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
| Originally published 1791. It may be that Johnson was reading this on 10th June, at the home of Dr Adams in Oxford,or had read it previously |
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