| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1700-1799 | Read 'A True Estemate of Human Life' by Mr Young, a Sermon preach'd in St George's Church upon the King's death. Extre... | Gertrude Savile | Edward Young | A Vindication of Providence; Or, a True Estimate o | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Aunt had the coach at 5 to visit. I drank tea and read Mr Young's sermon. Mrs D'Enly went when the coach came back wit... | Gertrude Savile | Edward Young | A Vindication of Providence; Or, a True Estimate o | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read the 'Universal Passion' | Gertrude Savile | Edward Young | The Universal Passion | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Made an end of 'The Unniversall Passion'... 'Tis exceeding seveer, 'tis all satir[e] but mighty pretty and too just. H... | Gertrude Savile | Edward Young | The Universal Passion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[J.M. Dent's] reading was marked by the autodidact's characteristic enthusiasm and spottiness. He knew Pilgrim's Prog... | Joseph Malaby Dent | Edward Young | Night Thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | What matters it to me if Young was an ambitious man or not? He wrote what I feel; and tho' not his wishes, his words w... | Anne Lister | Edward Young | The Complaint: Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter to Sibbella Maclean, dated August 18 1824] I should have marked, and doubtless, have done so in my little edit... | Anne Lister | Edward Young | The Complaint: Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From 8.30 to 9.10 walked on the terrace, occasionally reading Young's Night Thoughts. Coffee at 9.10. | Anne Lister | Edward Young | The complaint, or night thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "It was about this period that Mike, the dwarf waiter, fell ill. His mistress and others of her family being worn out... | John Bedford Leno | Edward Young | Night Thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Tho. Davy to our house in the evening to whom I read two nights of "The Complaint", one of which was the Christian tr... | Thomas Turner | Edward Young | The Complaint: or night thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Tho. Davy at our house in the latter part of the even to whom I read the last of "The Complaint" and part of Sherlock... | Thomas Turner | Edward Young | The Complaint: or night thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read part of Young's "Night Thoughts".' | Thomas Turner | Edward Young | The complaint or night thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read part of Young's "Estimate of Human Life".' | Thomas Turner | Edward Young | A vindication of providence; or, a true estimate of human life | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'With us, the "Centaur not fabulous" has met with a pretty good Reception; tho' some good People wish that it had less... | Samuel Richardson | Edward Young | The Centaur not Fabulous; in Six Letters to a Friend on The Life in Vogue | Manuscript: Unknown, printed by Richardson so presumably read in MS |
| 1800-1849 | ?One Sunday afternoon, the usual call was made for our ramble in the fields. Word was sent to the callers that their o... | William Edwin Adams | Edward Young | The Complaint: or night thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | David Vincent relates how the nineteenth-century apprentice compositor William Adams rejected his usual work associate... | William Adams | Edward Young | The Complaint, and the Consolation, or, Night Thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We waste, not use, ourtime; we breathe, not live' [single line] 'Young' | Carey/Maingay group | Edward Young | Night Thoughts OR 'Night Two' | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1850-1899 | '...a small thick volume, bound in black morocco, and comprising four reprinted works of the eighteenth century. Gloom... | Edmund Gosse | Dr. Edward Young | The Last Day | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked into Young's "Night Thoughts": debased throughout with many poor and puerile conceits...' | Thomas Green | Edward Young | Night Thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Reader makes several references to the work: V.1, p.9, p.19, p.167, p.192; V.2 p.145, p.162, p.177; V.3 p.145. eg.: V.... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Edward Young | Night thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ewing October 3 1778 'He is an uncommon, indeed I may say, an exalted character; one of those of whom P... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | [Edward?] [Young?] | [Satire VI?] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ourry July 13, 1779 'The sublime and solid consolations which true religion and right reason afford, ar... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | [Edward?] [Young?] | [?Night Thoughts] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When my day's task is at an end, I keep my nightly vigils with Young, whose Night Thoughts I do think, next to Milton... | Miss V[-] | Edward Young | Night Thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Boswell. "What do you think of Dr. Young's 'Night Thoughts,' Sir?" Johnson. "Why, Sir, there are many fine things in ... | Samuel Johnson | Edward Young | Night Thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Bishop said, it appeared from Horace's writings that he was a cheerful contented man. Johnson. "We have no reason... | Samuel Johnson | Edward Young | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]:
'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but... | Helen Selina Sheridan Blackwood | Edward Young | | 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 | Edward Young | Night Thoughts | 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... | Samuel Johnson | Edward Young | Night Thoughts | 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... | Samuel Johnson | Edward Young | Love of Fame, The Universal Passion | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We were speaking of Young as a Poet; Young's works cried Johnson are like a miry Road, with here & there a Stepping S... | Samuel Johnson | Edward Young | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We were speaking of Young as a Poet; Young's works cried Johnson are like a miry Road, with here & there a Stepping S... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Edward Young | | 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 | Edward Young | Conjectures on Original Composition. In a Letter to the Author of Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have heard that Miss Cooper hearing She was to lose her Sight, set about getting the Night Thoughts by heart - so m... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Edward Young | Night Thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have heard that Miss Cooper hearing She was to lose her Sight, set about getting the Night Thoughts by heart - so m... | Miss Cooper | Edward Young | Night Thoughts | Print: Book |
| 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 | Edward Young | Love of Fame, The Universal Passion | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics... | Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia | Edward Young | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 12 June 1796: 'Have you read Fawcetts Art of War? with all the faults... | Robert Southey | Edward Young | The Complaint, or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of lines from Edward Young's Night Thoughts, beginni... | Catherine Austen | Edward Young | The Complaint: or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 September 1762:]
'Yesterday evening we were entertained by one of the nobl... | Catherine Talbot | Edward Young | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Delany to Samuel Richardson, 16 August 1751:
'I am now reading Dr Young's Night Thoughts, and can hardly forbe... | Mary Delany | Edward Young | Night Thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [From the diary of Elizabeth Firth, 13 May 1818:]
'Read Young's Night Thoughts.' | Elizabeth Firth | Edward Young | Night Thoughts | Print: Book |