√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1700-1799 | 'In this [producing a biography of Johnson] he has not been very successful, as I have found upon a perusal of those p... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [papers left at his death] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'In this [producing a biography of Johnson] he has not been very successful, as I have found upon a perusal of those p... | James Boswell | John Hawkins | Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'There is, in the B. Museum, a letter from Bishop Warburton to Dr Birch, on the subject of biography; which, though I ... | James Boswell | Dr Warburton | [Letter to Thomas Birch] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'Instead of melting down my materials into one mass, and constantly speaking in my own person, by which I might have a... | James Boswell | William Mason | Memoirs of Gray | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'That the conversation of a celebrated man, if his talents have been exerted in conversation, will best display his ch... | James Boswell | William Mason | [Memoir of William Whitehead] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He appears, from his early notes or memorandums in my possession, to have at various times attempted, or at least pla... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [memoranda of his reading] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'The hand-writing [in the original sketch for "Irene"] is very difficult to read, even by those who were best acquaint... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [original notes for "Irene"] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I myself recollect such impressions [of reverence, like Johnson displayed for the "Gentleman's Magazine"] from "The S... | James Boswell | [n/a] | Scot's Magazine, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Dodsley this year brought out his "Preceptor", oned of the most valuable books for the improvement of young minds ... | James Boswell | Robert Dodsley | Preceptor, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'His "Vanity of Human Wishes" has less of common life, but more of a philosophick dignity than his "London". More read... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Vanity of Human Wishes, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'he was not altogether unprepared as a periodical writer; for I have in my possession a small duodecimo volume, in whi... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [notes collected for periodical articles] | Print: UnknownManuscript: duodecimo book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I profess myself to have ever had a profound veneration for the astonishing force and vivacity of mind which "The Ram... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | '["Rambler"] No 32 on patience, even under extreme misery, is wonderfully lofty, and as much above the rant of stoicis... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have seen some volumes of Dr Young's copy of "The Rambler", in which he has marked the pasages which he thought par... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'It has of late been the fashion to compare the style of Addison and Johnson, and to depreciate, I think very unjustly... | James Boswell | Joseph Addison | [essays] | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Let me add, that Hawkesworth's imitations of Johnson are sometimes so happy,that it is extremely difficult to disting... | James Boswell | John Hawkesworth | Adventurer, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | '[referring to a dispute over whether Johnson wrote certain papers in "The Adventurer"] Mrs Williams told me that, "as... | James Boswell | James Boswell | [account given to him by Mrs Williams] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'On the 6th of March came out Lord Bolingbroke's works, published by Mr David Mallet. The wild and pernicious ravings,... | James Boswell | Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke | Philosophical works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In one of his little memorandum-books I find the following hints for his intended "Review or Literary Journal":
"[it... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [memoranda for a projected literary journal] | Manuscript: Codex, memorandum book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Let the Preface [to Johnson's Dictionary] be attentively perused, in which is given, in a clear, strong, and glowing ... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'all the esays [in the "Universal Visitor"] marked with two [italics] asterisks [end italics] have been ascribed to hi... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [essays] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'all the esays [in the "Universal Visitor"] marked with two [italics] asterisks [end italics] have been ascribed to hi... | James Boswell | [n/a] | The Universal Visitor | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Yet there are in the "Idler" several papers which shew as much profundity of thought, and labour of language, as any ... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Idler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'This Tale ["Rasselas"], with all the charms of oriental imagery, and all the force and beauty of which the English la... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'This Tale ["Rasselas"], with all the charms of oriental imagery, and all the force and beauty of which the English la... | James Boswell | Voltaire [pseud.] | Candide: Or, All for the Best | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I could not but smile, at the same time that I was offended, to observe Sheridan, in "The Life of Swift", which he af... | James Boswell | Thomas Sheridan | Life of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Her [Mrs Sheridan's] novel, entitled "Memoirs of Miss Sydney Biddulph", contains an excellent moral, while it inculc... | James Boswell | Frances Sheridan | Memoirs of Miss Sydney Biddulph, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"Cibber's familiar style, however, was better than that which Whitehead has assumed. [italics] Grand [end italics] no... | James Boswell | William Whitehead | [poem on Garrick] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In this depreciation [by Johnson] of Churchill's poetry I could not agree with him. It is very true that the greatest... | James Boswell | Charles Churchill | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In this depreciation [by Johnson] of Churchill's poetry I could not agree with him. It is very true that the greatest... | James Boswell | Charles Churchill | Prophecy of Famine, The. A Scots Pastoral | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I mentioned the periodical paper called "The Connoisseur." He said it wanted matter. No doubt it has not the deep thi... | James Boswell | [n/a] | Connoisseur, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'I at this time kept up a very frequent correspondence with Sir David [Dalrymple]; and I read to Dr. Johnson to-night ... | James Boswell | David Dalrymple | [letter to Boswell] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Tuesday, July 18, I found tall Sir Thomas Robinson sitting with Johnson. Sir Thomas said, that the King of Prussia... | James Boswell | Frederick II King of Prussia | Memoirs of the house of Brandenburg. From the earliest accounts, to the death of Frederick I. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Tuesday, July 18, I found tall Sir Thomas Robinson sitting with Johnson. Sir Thomas said, that the King of Prussia... | James Boswell | Frederick II King of Prussia | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said] "Hume, and other sceptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expence. Trut... | James Boswell | David Hume | Enquiry concerning Human Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He said, Dr. Joseph Warton was a very agreeable man, and his "Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope," a very pleas... | James Boswell | Joseph Warton | Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was much pleased to find myself with Johnson at Greenwich, which he celebrates in his "London" as a favourite scene... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Boswell to Johnson] Of the modern Frisick, or what is spoken by the boors at this day, I have procured a specimen. I... | James Boswell | Gisbert Japix | Rymelerie | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He wrote a review of Grainger's "Sugar Cane, a Poem", in the "London Chronicle". He told me, that Dr. Percy wrote the... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | London Chronicle [review of Grainger's "Sugar Cane, a poem"] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'From one of his Journals I transcribed what follows :
"At church, Oct.—65.
" To avoid all singularity; [italics... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [journal] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'He kept the greater part of mine [letters] very carefully; and a short time before his death was attentive enough to ... | James Boswell | James Boswell | [letter to Johnson from Corsica] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'This violence [of Dr Johnson against Rousseau] seemed very strange to me, who had read many of Rousseau's animated wr... | James Boswell | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Emile | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'This violence [of Dr Johnson against Rousseau] seemed very strange to me, who had read many of Rousseau's animated wr... | James Boswell | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Discourse on Inequality | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '"Sir, (continued he) there is all the difference in the world between characters of nature and characters of manners;... | James Boswell | Samuel Richardson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '"Sir, (continued he) there is all the difference in the world between characters of nature and characters of manners;... | James Boswell | Henry Fielding | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He allowed high praise to Thomson, as a poet; but when one of the company said he was also a very good man, our moral... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Lives of the Poets | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He allowed high praise to Thomson, as a poet; but when one of the company said he was also a very good man, our moral... | James Boswell | James Thomson | [letters to his sister and accounts by them of his character] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | '"The London Chronicle", which was the only newspaper he constantly took in, being brought, the office of reading it a... | James Boswell | [n/a] | London Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'His description of its [the situation in the Falklands] miseries in this pamphlet ['Thoughts on the late Transactions... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Thoughts on the late Transactions respecting Falkland's Islands | |
| 1700-1799 | 'We talked of his two political pamphlets, "The False Alarm," and "Thoughts concerning Falkland's Islands." Johnson. "... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Thoughts on the Late Transactions respecting Falkland's Islands | |
| 1700-1799 | 'We talked of his two political pamphlets, "The False Alarm," and "Thoughts concerning Falkland's Islands." Johnson. "... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | False Alarm, The | |
| 1700-1799 | 'Boswell. "I do not know whether there are any well attested stories of the appearance of ghosts. You know there is a ... | James Boswell | Charles Drelincourt | Christians Defense against the Fears of Death | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Johnson said] "I see they have published a splendid edition of Akenside's works. One bad ode may be suffered; but a ... | James Boswell | Mark Akenside | Pleasures of Imagination, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I mentioned Elwal the heretick, whose trial Sir John Pringle had given me to read.'
| James Boswell | [unknown] | [legal trial papers] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'He censured Ruffhead's "Life of Pope"; -and said, "he knew nothing of Pope, and nothing of poetry." He praised Dr. Jo... | James Boswell | Joseph Warton | Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The conversation now turned on critical subjects. Johnson. "Bayes, in 'The Rehearsal', is a mighty silly character. I... | James Boswell | George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham | Rehearsal, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, "he was a blockhead :" and upon my expressing my astonishment at so stra... | James Boswell | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We talked of Tacitus, and I hazarded an opinion that with all his merit for penetration, shrewdness of judgment, and ... | James Boswell | Tacitus | Histories | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At this time it appears from his "Prayers and Meditations," that he had been more than commonly diligent in religious... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Prayers and Meditations | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I expressed a liking for Mr. Francis Osborne's works, and asked him what he thought of that writer. He answered, "A c... | James Boswell | Francis Osborne | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I expressed a liking for Mr. Francis Osborne's works, and asked him what he thought of that writer. He answered, "A c... | James Boswell | Joseph Addison | Spectator, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Saturday, April 3, the day after my arrival in London this year, I went to his house late in the evening, and sat ... | James Boswell | | London Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'I mentioned Sir John Dalrymple's "Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland", and his discoveries to the prejudice of Lord... | James Boswell | John Dalrymple | Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[on Good Friday] We went to church both in the morning and evening. In the interval between the two services we did n... | James Boswell | [unknown] | [books belonging to Johnson] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In Archbishop Laud's Diary I found the following passage, which I read to Dr. Johnson:
"1623. February 1, Sunday. ... | James Boswell | William Laud | [diary] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I spoke of Allan Ramsay's "Gentle Shepherd," in the Scottish dialect, as the best pastoral that had ever been written... | James Boswell | Allan Ramsay | Gentle Shepherd, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson, though remarkable for his great variety of composition, never exercised his talents in fable, except we allo... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [tale in Mrs Williams's 'Miscellanies'] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson, though remarkable for his great variety of composition, never exercised his talents in fable, except we allo... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [manuscript plan for a fable] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Dese... | James Boswell | William Robertson | History of Scotland 1542 - 1603 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Talking of birds, I mentioned Mr. Daines Barrington's ingenions Essay against the received notion of their migration'. | James Boswell | Daines Barrington | [Essay on bird migration] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Letter from Boswell to Johnson] Your critical notes on the specimen of Lord Hailes's "Annals of Scotland" are excel... | James Boswell | David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes | Annals of Scotland | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[letter from Boswell, to Johnson] It gives me much pleasure to hear that a republication of "Isaac Walton's Lives" is... | James Boswell | Izaak Walton | Lives of Dr John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr Richard Hooker, Mr George Herbert and Dr Robert Sanderson | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In his [Johnson's] manuscript diary of this year, there is the following entry:
"Nov. 27. Advent Sunday. I conside... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [diary] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Letter from Boswell to Johnson] Be pleased to accept of my best thanks for your "Journey to the Hebrides", which cam... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'His "Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland" is a most valuable performance. It abounds in extensive philosophica... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'His disbelief of the authenticity of the poems ascribed to Ossian, a Highland bard, was confirmed in the course of hi... | James Boswell | James Macpherson | [Ossian poems, culminating in] Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem in Six Books, together with Several Other Poems composed by Ossian, the Son of Fingal, translated from the Gaelic Language | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Unfavourable as I am constrained to say my opinion of this pamphlet [Johnson's 'Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the ... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress | |
| 1700-1799 | Unfavourable as I am constrained to say my opinion of this pamphlet [Johnson's 'Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the ... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress | Print: proof leaves of a pamphlet with handwritten corrections |
| 1700-1799 | 'Next day I dined with Johnson at Mr. Thrale's. He attacked Gray, calling him a "dull fellow." Boswell. "I understand ... | James Boswell | Thomas Gray | The Bard: A Pindaric Ode | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Next day I dined with Johnson at Mr. Thrale's. He attacked Gray, calling him a "dull fellow." Boswell. "I understand ... | James Boswell | Thomas Gray | Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'The "Odes to Obscurity and Oblivion," in ridicule of "cool Mason and warm Gray", being mentioned, Johnson said, "They... | James Boswell | William Mason | Elfrida | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I often wondered at his [Johnson's] low estimation of the writings of Gray and Mason. Of Gray's poetry I have, in a f... | James Boswell | William Mason | Elfrida | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I often wondered at his [Johnson's] low estimation of the writings of Gray and Mason. Of Gray's poetry I have, in a f... | James Boswell | William Mason | Caractacus: A Dramatic Poem | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I often wondered at his [Johnson's] low estimation of the writings of Gray and Mason. Of Gray's poetry I have, in a f... | James Boswell | William Mason | [minor poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Dr Thomas Campbell, who dined with Johnson on 3 April 1775] has since published "A Philosophical Survey of the South... | James Boswell | Thomas Campbell | Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland, in a series of letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr. Scott of Amwell's "Elegies" were lying in the room. Dr. Johnson observed "They are very well; but such as twenty ... | James Boswell | John Scott | [Elegies] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I had brought with me a great bundle of Scotch magazines and newspapers, in which his "Journey to the Western Islands... | James Boswell | [n/a] | [various Scottish magazine reviews of Johnson's 'Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'I censured some ludicrous fantastick dialogues between two coach horses and other such stuff, which Baretti had latel... | James Boswell | Giuseppe Baretti | [unidentified 'Dialogues'] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He spoke slightingly of Dyer's "Fleece".— "The subject, Sir, cannot be made poetical. How can a man write poeticall... | James Boswell | James Grainger | Sugar Cane, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[At the home of the Quaker Mr Lloyd] I having asked to look at Baskerville's edition of "Barclay's Apology", Johnson ... | James Boswell | Robert Barclay | Apology for the True Christian Divinity | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr. Seward mentioned to us the observations which he had made upon the strata of earth in volcanoes, from which it ap... | James Boswell | Patrick Brydone | Tour Through Sicily and Malta. In A Series of Letters to William Beckford Esq. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Sunday, March 31, I called on him, and shewed him as a curiosity which I had discovered, his "Translation of Lobo'... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Translation of Lobo's Account of Abyssinia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I observed the great defect of the tragedy of "Othello" was, that it had not a moral; for that no man could resist th... | James Boswell | William Shakespeare | Othello | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We talked of the Reviews, and Dr. Johnson spoke of them as he did at Thrale's. Sir Joshua [Reynolds] said, what I hav... | James Boswell | | [Monthly and Critical Reviews] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'He told me that "so long ago as 1748 he had read 'The Grave, a Poem', but did not like it much." I differed from him;... | James Boswell | Robert Blair | 'The Grave, a Poem' | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Monday, April 29, he and I made an excursion to Bristol, where I was entertained with seeing him enquire upon the ... | James Boswell | Thomas Chatterton | [poems supposedly by Thomas Rowley] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said] "There is much talk of the misery which we cause to the brute creation; but they are recompensed by e... | James Boswell | Francis Hutcheson | System of Moral Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When I read this [Johnson's argument regarding a legal case on the liberty of the pulpit in which Boswell was involve... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [a legal argument] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'BOSWELL. "Yet Cibber was a man of observation?" JOHNSON. "I think not." BOSWELL. "You will allow his 'Apology' to be ... | James Boswell | Colley Cibber | Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'BOSWELL. "Yet Cibber was a man of observation?" JOHNSON. "I think not." BOSWELL. "You will allow his 'Apology' to be ... | James Boswell | Colley Cibber | [Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[letter from Boswell to Johnson] I have, since I saw you, read every word of Granger's "Biographical History". It has... | James Boswell | James Granger | Biographical History of England from Egbert the Great to the Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[letter from Boswell to Johnson] Your paper on "Vicious Intromission" is a noble proof of what you can do even in Sco... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [paper on an aspect of Scottish law] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | ' [letter from Boswell to Johnson] I have not yet distributed all your books [presumably a new edition of the "Journey... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[letter from Boswell to Johnson] You forget that Mr. Shaw's "Erse Grammar" was put into your hands by myself last yea... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [proposals for the publication of William Shaw's 'Erse Grammar'] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[letter from Boswell to Johnson] Our worthy friend Thrale's death having appeared in the newspapers, and been afterwa... | James Boswell | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | ' [letter from Boswell to Johnson] What do you say of Lord Chesterfield's "Memoirs and last Letters"?' | James Boswell | Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | Memoirs and Last Letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thom... | James Boswell | Theophilus Cibber | Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thom... | James Boswell | Patrick Murdoch | [Life of Thomson, prefixed to an edition of 'The Seasons'] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thom... | James Boswell | anon. | [Life of Thomson, prefixed to an edition of 'The Seasons'] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thom... | James Boswell | | Biographia Britannica | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thom... | James Boswell | | Biographical Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thom... | James Boswell | Joseph Warton | Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [letter from Boswell to Johnson] Without doubt you have read what is called "The Life of David Hume", written by him... | James Boswell | David Hume | My Own Life | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[letter from Boswell to Johnson] I lately read Rasselas over again with great satisfaction'. | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia , the | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He [Johnson] wrote also "The Convict's Address to his unhappy Brethren", a sermon delivered by Dr. Dodd [ a clergyman... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [sermon written for Dr Dodd] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the afternoon I tried to get Dr. Johnson to like the Poems of Mr. Hamilton of Bangour, which I had brought with me... | James Boswell | William Hamilton | [poem on Winter] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the afternoon I tried to get Dr. Johnson to like the Poems of Mr. Hamilton of Bangour, which I had brought with me... | James Boswell | William Hamilton | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He [Johnson] was much diverted with an article which I shewed him in the "Critical Review" of this year, giving an ac... | James Boswell | | Critical Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Some of the ancient philosophers held, that all deviations from right reason were madness; and whoever wishes to see ... | James Boswell | Thomas Arnold | Observations on Insanity | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I talked to him [Johnson] of Forster's "Voyage to the South Seas", which pleased me; but I found he did not like it. ... | James Boswell | George Forster | Voyage Round the World in his Britannic Majesty's sloop, Resolution, A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have no doubt that a good many sermons were composed for Taylor [with whom Johnson and Boswell were staying] by Joh... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [sermon written for John Taylor] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have no doubt that a good many sermons were composed for Taylor [with whom Johnson and Boswell were staying] by Joh... | James Boswell | John Taylor | Sermons left for publication by the Reverend John Taylor LL.D. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We viewed a remarkable natural curiosity at Islam; two rivers bursting near each other from the rock, not from immedi... | James Boswell | Robert Plott | Natural History of Staffordshire | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Talking of Rochester's Poems, he said, he had given them to Mr. Steevens to castrate for the edition of the poets, to... | James Boswell | Gilbert Burnet | Some passages of the life and death of the Right Honourable John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I asked whether Prior's Poems were to be printed entire: Johnson said they were. I mentioned Lord Hailes's censure of... | James Boswell | Matthew Prior | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mallet's "Life of Bacon" has no inconsiderable merit as an acute and elegant dissertation relative to its subject; bu... | James Boswell | David Mallet | Life of Francis Bacon, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I have read, conversed, and thought much upon the subject, and would recommend to all who are capable of conviction, a... | James Boswell | John Ranby | Doubts on the Abolition of the Slave Trade | |
| 1700-1799 | '[letter from Boswell to Johnson] Did you ever look at a book written by Wilson, a Scotchman, under the Latin name of ... | James Boswell | Florentius Volusenus [pseud.] | De Animi Tranquillitate | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Letter from Boswell to Johnson] The alarm of your late illness distressed me but a few hours ; for on the evening o... | James Boswell | | London Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'I mentioned that I had in my possession the Life of Sir Robert Sibbald, the celebrated Scottish antiquary, and founde... | James Boswell | Robert Sibbald | [manuscript Life] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[in a conversation about journals, Boswell said] "And as a lady adjusts her dress
before a mirrour, a man adjusts h... | James Boswell | Francis Atterbury | [Funeral Sermon for Lady Cutts] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I looked into Lord Kaimes's "Sketches of the History of Man"; and mentioned to Dr. Johnson his censure of Charles th... | James Boswell | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Sketches of the History of Man | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Sir John Pringle had expressed a wish that I would ask Dr. Johnson's opinion what were the best English sermons for s... | James Boswell | Samuel Ogden | [Sermons] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'After wandering about in a kind of pleasing distraction for some time, I got into a corner, with Johnson, Garrick, an... | James Boswell | Homer | Iliad and Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After wandering about in a kind of pleasing distraction for some time, I got into a corner, with Johnson, Garrick, an... | James Boswell | Homer | Iliad and Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He [Johnson] told us, that he had given Mrs. Montagu a catalogue of all Daniel Defoe's works of imagination; most, if... | James Boswell | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Sunday, April 12, I found him at home before dinner; Dr. Dodd's poem entitled "Thoughts in Prison" was lying upon ... | James Boswell | William Dodd | Thoughts in Prison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr. Mayo having asked Johnson's opinion of Soame Jenyns's "View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion";-... | James Boswell | Soame Jenyns | View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'DR. MAYO (to Dr. Johnson). "Pray, Sir, have you read Edwards, of New England, on "Grace"?" JOHNSON. "No, Sir". BOSWEL... | James Boswell | Jonathan Edwards | [on Grace] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr. Allen, the printer, brought a book on agriculture, which was printed, and was soon to be published. It was a very... | James Boswell | William Marshall | Minutes of Agriculture | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I told him, that his "Rasselas" had often made me unhappy; for it represented the misery of human life so well, and s... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Boswell lamenting the dificulty of compiling a definitive Johnson bibliography] I once got from one of his friends ... | James Boswell | | [list of Johnson's works compiled by Mr Levett] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| | '[letter from Boswell to Johnson] 'I am eager to see more of your Prefaces to the Poets; I solace myself with the few ... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Lives of the Poets | Print: proof sheets |
| | 'Johnson this year expressed great satisfaction at the publication of the first volume of "Discourses to the Royal Aca... | James Boswell | Joshua Reynolds | Discourses Delivered at the Royal Academy | Print: Book |
| | 'On Friday, April 2, being Good-Friday, I visited him in the morning as usual; and finding that we insensibly fell int... | James Boswell | Richard Allestree | Government of the Tongue, The | Print: Book |
| | 'In the interval between morning and evening service, he [Johnson] endeavoured to employ himself earnestly in devotion... | James Boswell | Blaise Pascal | Pensees | Print: Book |
| | 'On Monday, May 3, I dined with him at Mr. Dilly's; I pressed him this day for his opinion on the passage in Parnell, ... | James Boswell | Thomas Parnell | Hermit, The | Print: Book |
| | 'shall insert as a literary curiosity. [The letter is given. It begins as follows]
"TO JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ.
DEAR S... | James Boswell | Hugh Blair | [letter concerning Pope and Bolingbroke] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'So easy is his style in these "Lives", that I do not recollect more than three uncommon or learned words; one, when g... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Lives of the Poets | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Croft's 'Life of Young, adapted by Johnson for his 'Life'] has always appeared to me to have a considerable share of... | James Boswell | Herbert Croft | Life of 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... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [Life of Young in 'Lives of the Poets'] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Miss Hannah More has admirably described a [italics] Blue-stocking Club [end italics], in her "Bas Bleu", a poem in w... | James Boswell | Hannah More | Bas Bleu; or Conversation | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'that gentleman [Dr Shebbeare], whatever objections were made to him, had knowledge and abilities much above the class... | James Boswell | John Shebbeare | Letters on the English Nation | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson and Shebbeare were frequently named together, as having in former reigns had no predilection for the family o... | James Boswell | William Mason | Heroick Epistle to Sir William Chambers | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson praised the Earl of Carlisle's Poems, which his Lordship had published with his name, as not disdaining to be... | James Boswell | William Whitehead | 'Elegy to Lord Villiers' | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Soon after this time I had an opportunity of seeing, by means of one of his friends, a proof that his talents, as wel... | James Boswell | George Crabbe | Village, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'That learned and ingenious Prelate [Dr Hurd] it is well known published at one period of his life "Moral and Politica... | James Boswell | Richard Hurd | Moral and Political Dialogues: being the substance of several conversations between divers eminent persons of the past and present age | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'BOSWELL. "Pray, Sir, is the 'Turkish Spy' a genuine book?" JOHNSON. "No, Sir. Mrs. Manley, in her 'Life', says that h... | James Boswell | Giovanni Paolo Marana | Letters written by a Turkish spy, who lived five and forty years undiscovered at Paris: giving an impartial account to the Divan at Constantinople, of the most remarkable transactions of Europe: and discovering several intrigues and secrets ... | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Horace having been mentioned; BOSWELL. "There is a great deal of thinking in his works. One finds there almost every ... | James Boswell | Horace | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I wrote to him, begging to know the state of his health, and mentioned that Baxter's "Anacreon", "which is in the lib... | James Boswell | Anacreon | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A pleasing instance of the generous attention of one of his [Dr Johnson's] friends has been discovered by the publica... | James Boswell | Hester Lynch Thrale | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson was very quiescent to-day [17th May 1784] . Perhaps too I was indolent. I find nothing more of him in my note... | James Boswell | Thomas a Kempis | Imitation of Christ | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I brought a volume of Dr. Hurd the Bishop of Worcester's "Sermons", and read to the company some passages from one of... | James Boswell | Richard Hurd | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I mentioned Jeremy Taylor's using, in his forms of prayer, "I am the chief of sinners", and other such self-condemnin... | James Boswell | Jeremy Taylor | Golden Grove; or a Manuall of daily prayers and litanies | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We may apply to him [Johnson] a sentence in Mr. Greville's "Maxims, Characters, and Reflections"; a book which is ent... | James Boswell | Fulke Greville | Maxims, Characters, and Reflections, Critical, Satyrical, and Moral | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'These Voyages, (pointing to the three large volumes of "Voyages to the South Sea", which were just come out) who will... | James Boswell | | [books of Voyages to the South Seas] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When I pointed out to him in the newspaper one of Mr. Grattan's animated and glowing speeches, in favour of the freed... | James Boswell | | [a newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'I shewed him some verses on Lichfield by Miss Seward, which I had that day received from her, and had the pleasure to... | James Boswell | Anna Seward | [poem on Lichfield] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I shall now fulfil my promise of exhibiting specimens of various sorts of imitation of Johnson's style.
In the "T... | James Boswell | Robert Burrowes | [Essay on Johnson's style] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A distinguished authour in "The Mirror", a periodical paper, published at Edinburgh, has imitated Johnson very closel... | James Boswell | Henry Mackenzie | [imitation of Johnson] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'A distinguished authour in "The Mirror", a periodical paper, published at Edinburgh, has imitated Johnson very closel... | James Boswell | Vicesimus Knox | Essays Moral and Literary | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A distinguished authour in "The Mirror", a periodical paper, published at Edinburgh, has imitated Johnson very closel... | James Boswell | John Young | Criticism on Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Two very valuable articles, I am sure, we have lost [when Johnson, dying, burnt many of his papers] , which were two ... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [MS Autobiography] | Manuscript: quarto volumes |
| 1700-1799 | 'I told him that from reading Gay's writings, I had taken an affection to his Grace's family from my earliest years.' | James Boswell | John Gay | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have now one great satisfaction, which is reading Hume's "History". It entertains and instructs me. It elevates my ... | James Boswell | David Hume | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'David Hume and John Dryden are at present my companions' | James Boswell | David Hume | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'David Hume and John Dryden are at present my companions' | James Boswell | John Dryden | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Some time ago I left off the pamphlet shop in the passage to the Temple Exchange Coffee-house, and took "The North Br... | James Boswell | [n/a] | The North Briton | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Some time ago I left off the pamphlet shop in the passage to the Temple Exchange Coffee-house, and took "The North Br... | James Boswell | [unknown] | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'This forenoon I read the history of Joseph and his brethren, which melted my heart and drew tears from my eyes. It is... | James Boswell | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I employed the day in reading Hume's "History", which enlarged my views, filled me with great ideas, and rendered me ... | James Boswell | David Hume | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I then got "The North Briton" and read it at Child's. I shall do so now every Saturday evening' | James Boswell | [n/a] | The North Briton | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'At night at home, I read the Church service by myself with great devotion' | James Boswell | [n/a] | [Church service] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I returned to my friend's chambers and we read some of Mr Addison's papers in "The Spectator" with infinite relish' | James Boswell | Joseph Addison | The Spectator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'In my younger years I had read in the "Lives of the Convicts" so much about Tyburn that I had a sort of horrid eagern... | James Boswell | [unknown] | Lives of the convicts | Print: Book |