√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1700-1799 | "Samuel Johnson ... annotated a copy of a religious work in 1755 so he could exchange views with a woman he loved, Hi... | Samuel Johnson | | religious work | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'When he [Johnson] was a child in petticoats, and had learnt to read, Mrs Johnson one morning put the common prayer-bo... | Samuel Johnson | | Book of Common Prayer [collect for the day] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He was first taught to read English by Dame Oliver, a widow, who kept a school for young children in Lichfield. He to... | Samuel Johnson | | [reading lessons] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr Percy, the Bishop of Dromore, who was long intimately acquainted with him, and has preserved a few anecdotes conce... | Samuel Johnson | | [romances of chivalry] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr Percy, the Bishop of Dromore, who was long intimately acquainted with him, and has preserved a few anecdotes conce... | Samuel Johnson | Melchor de Ortega | Felixmarte de Hircania | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'he read a great deal in a desultory manner, without any scheme of study, as chance threw books in his way, and inclin... | Samuel Johnson | Petrarch | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'what he read during these two years [between Stourbridge school and Oxford] , he told me, was not works of mere amuse... | Samuel Johnson | | [various works of classics and literature] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'what he read during these two years [between Stourbridge school and Oxford] , he told me, was not works of mere amuse... | Samuel Johnson | Anacreon | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'what he read during these two years [between Stourbridge school and Oxford] , he told me, was not works of mere amuse... | Samuel Johnson | Hesiod | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'His figure and manner appeared strange to them [the company on the night of Johnson's arrival in Oxford]; but he beha... | Samuel Johnson | Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Having given such a specimen of his poetical powers, he was asked by Mr Jorden to translate Pope's Messiah into Latin... | Samuel Johnson | Alexander Pope | Messiah. A Sacred Eclogue, in Imitation of Virgil's Pollio | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '"Sunday (said he) was a heavy day to me when I was a boy. My mother confined me on that day, and made me read "The Wh... | Samuel Johnson | Richard Allestree | Whole Duty of Man, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '"The church in Lichfield, in which we had a seat, wanted reparation, so I was to go and find a seat in other churches... | Samuel Johnson | | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '"When at Oxford, I took up Law's "Serious Call to a Holy Life", expecting to find it a dull book (as such books gener... | Samuel Johnson | William Law | Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, A | 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... | Samuel Johnson | Euripides | [Tragedies] | 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... | Samuel Johnson | Virgil | Georgics | 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... | Samuel Johnson | Virgil | Aeneid | 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... | Samuel Johnson | Horace | Ars Poetica | 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... | Samuel Johnson | Theocritus | | 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... | Samuel Johnson | Juvenal | Tenth Satire | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[referring to his translation of Lobo's "Voyage to Abyssinia"] Johnson upon this exerted the powers of his mind, thou... | Samuel Johnson | Jeronimo Lobo | Voyage to Abyssinia , A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Peter Garrick, the elder brother of David, told me that he remembered Johnson's borrowing the "Turkish History" of... | Samuel Johnson | | [Turkish History] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '"The Gentleman's Magazine", begun and carried on by Mr Edward Cave , under the name of SYLVANUS URBAN, had attracted ... | Samuel Johnson | [n/a] | Gentleman's Magazine, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Peter Garrick told me, that Johnson and he went together to the Fountain tavern, and read it over, and that he aft... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Johnson | Irene | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have read the Italian - nothing in it is well' | Samuel Johnson | [unknown] | ['The Italian' - unknown text] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand, than it becomes a torpe... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Birch | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The authorities [for the definitions in Johnson's Dictionary] were copied from the books themselves, in which he had ... | Samuel Johnson | [unknown] | [sources for his Dictionary] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[thanking Warton for a book he has sent ] You have shewn to all, who shall hereafter attempt the study of our ancient... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Warton | Observations on the Faerie Queene of Spenser | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Here was an excellent library; particularly, a valuable collection of books in Northern literature, with which Johnso... | Samuel Johnson | [unknown] | [books of Northern literature] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'There is an old English and Latin book of poems by Barclay, called "The Ship of Fools"; at the end of which are a num... | Samuel Johnson | Alexander Barclay | Ship of Fools, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Th authours of the essays in prose [in "Miscellanies" published by Elizabeth Harrison] seem generally to have imitate... | Samuel Johnson | Elizabeth Harrison | Miscellanies | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Th authours of the essays in prose [in "Miscellanies" published by Elizabeth Harrison] seem generally to have imitate... | Samuel Johnson | Elizabeth Rowe | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Th authours of the essays in prose [in "Miscellanies" published by Elizabeth Harrison] seem generally to have imitate... | Samuel Johnson | Isaac Watts | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[according to Thomas Campbell] he begged of me that when I returned to Ireland, I would endeavour to procure for him ... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Madden | Boulter's Monument | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'This Tale ["Rasselas"], with all the charms of oriental imagery, and all the force and beauty of which the English la... | Samuel Johnson | Voltaire [pseud.] | Candide: Or, All for the Best | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Her [Mrs Sheridan's] novel, entitled "Memoirs of Miss Sydney Biddulph", contains an excellent moral, while it inculc... | Samuel Johnson | Frances Sheridan | Memoirs of Miss Sydney Biddulph, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Sir, this book ("The Elements of Criticism", which he had taken up,) is a pretty essay, and deserves to be held in so... | Samuel Johnson | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Elements of Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At this time the controversy concerning the pieces published by Mr James Macpherson as translations of [italics] Ossi... | Samuel Johnson | James Macpherson | Fragments of Ancient Poetry collected in the Highlands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'His [Colley Cibber's] friends gave out that he [italics] intended [end italics] his birth-day "Odes" should be bad: b... | Samuel Johnson | Colley Cibber | [Odes] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '"Cibber's familiar style, however, was better than that which Whitehead has assumed. [italics] Grand [end italics] no... | Samuel Johnson | William Whitehead | [poem on Garrick] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Sir, I do not think Gray a first-rate poet. He has not a bold imagination, nor much command of words. The obscurity i... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Gray | Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Dr John Campbell, the celebrated political and biographical writer, being mentioned, Johnson said, "Campbell is a man... | Samuel Johnson | John Campbell | Hermippus Redivivus: Or, the Sage's Triumph Over Old Age and the Grave. | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He talked very contemptuously of Churchill's poetry, observing, that "it had a temporary currency, only from its auda... | Samuel Johnson | Charles Churchill | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Bonnell Thornton had just published a burlesque "Ode on St. Cecilia's day, adapted to the ancient British music, viz.... | Samuel Johnson | Bonnell Thornton | Ode on St. Cecilia's day, adapted to the ancient British music, viz. the salt-box, the jews- harp, the marrow-bones and cleaver, the hum-strum or hurdy-gurdy, &c | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | I mentioned the periodical paper called "The Connoisseur." He said it wanted matter. No doubt it has not the deep thin... | Samuel Johnson | [n/a] | Connoisseur, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | I mentioned the periodical paper called "The Connoisseur." He said it wanted matter. No doubt it has not the deep thin... | Samuel Johnson | [n/a] | World, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Tuesday the 5th of July, I again visited Johnson. He told me he had looked into the poems of a pretty voluminous w... | Samuel Johnson | John Ogilvie | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '"Bayle's Dictionary is a very useful work for those to consult who love the biographical part of literature, which is... | Samuel Johnson | Pierre Bayle | Historical and Critical Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '"Bayle's Dictionary is a very useful work for those to consult who love the biographical part of literature, which is... | Samuel Johnson | John Arbuthnot | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '"Bayle's Dictionary is a very useful work for those to consult who love the biographical part of literature, which is... | Samuel Johnson | Joseph Addison | [unknown] | 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... | Samuel Johnson | Frederick II King of Prussia | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The conversation now turned upon Mr. David Hume's style. Johnson. "Why, Sir, his style is not English; the structure ... | Samuel Johnson | David Hume | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said] "Hume, and other sceptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expence. Trut... | Samuel Johnson | David Hume | Enquiry concerning Human Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Johnson said] "Sir, in my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost a... | Samuel Johnson | [unknown] | [unknown] | 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... | Samuel Johnson | Joseph Warton | Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He told me, that his father had put Martin's account of those islands into his hands when he was very young, and that... | Samuel Johnson | Martin Martin | Description of the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Thursday, July 28, we again supped in private at the Turk's Head coffee-house. Johnson. "Swift has a higher reputa... | Samuel Johnson | Jonathan Swift | Tale of a Tub, A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Thursday, July 28, we again supped in private at the Turk's Head coffee-house. Johnson. "Swift has a higher reputa... | Samuel Johnson | James Thomson | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Buchanan, he said, was a very fine poet; and observed that he was the first who complimented a lady, by ascribing to ... | Samuel Johnson | George Buchanan | Nympha Caledoniae | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He had in his pocket, "Pomponius Mela de Situ Orbis," in which he read occasionally, and seemed very intent upon anci... | Samuel Johnson | Pomponius Mela | De situ orbis | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He talked of Mr. Blacklock's poetry, so far as it was descriptive of visible objects; and observed, that "as its auth... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Blacklock | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He said of Goldsmith's "Traveller," which had been published in my absence, "There has not been so fine a poem since ... | Samuel Johnson | Oliver Goldsmith | Traveller, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'His Majesty having observed to him that he supposed he must have read a great deal; Johnson answered, that he thought... | Samuel Johnson | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'His Majesty then talked of the controversy between Warburton and Lowth, which he seemed to have read, and asked Johns... | Samuel Johnson | [unknown] | [Lowth-Warburton controversy] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'His Majesty then talked of the controversy between Warburton and Lowth, which he seemed to have read, and asked Johns... | Samuel Johnson | George, Lord Lyttelton | History of the Life of Henry the Second | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The King then asked him what he thought of Dr. Hill. Johnson answered, he was an ingenious man, but had no veracity; ... | Samuel Johnson | Dr Hill | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The King then asked him if there were any other literary journals published in this kingdom, except the "Monthly" and... | Samuel Johnson | [n/a] | Monthly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'The King then asked him if there were any other literary journals published in this kingdom, except the "Monthly" and... | Samuel Johnson | [n/a] | Critical Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'The King then asked him if there were any other literary journals published in this kingdom, except the "Monthly" and... | Samuel Johnson | [n/a] | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | '"Sir, (continued he) there is all the difference in the world between characters of nature and characters of manners;... | Samuel Johnson | Henry Fielding | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '"Sir, (continued he) there is all the difference in the world between characters of nature and characters of manners;... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Richardson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He [Dr Johnson] said, "Macaulay, who writes the account of St. Kilda, set out with a prejudice against prejudice, and... | Samuel Johnson | Kenneth Macaulay | History of St Kilda | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When I talked of our [the Scots'] advancement in literature, "Sir, (said he,) you have learnt a little from us, and y... | Samuel Johnson | David Hume | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When I talked of our [the Scots'] advancement in literature, "Sir, (said he,) you have learnt a little from us, and y... | Samuel Johnson | Voltaire | [books of history] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When I talked of our [the Scots'] advancement in literature, "Sir, (said he,) you have learnt a little from us, and y... | Samuel Johnson | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Elements of Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When I talked of our [the Scots'] advancement in literature, "Sir, (said he,) you have learnt a little from us, and y... | Samuel Johnson | William Robertson | History of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He praised Signor Baretti. "His account of Italy is a very entertaining book; and, Sir, I know no man who carries his... | Samuel Johnson | Joseph Baretti | Account of the Manners and Customs of Italy; with Observations on the Mistakes of some Travellers, with Regard to that Country | 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... | Samuel Johnson | James Thomson | [poetry] | 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... | Samuel Johnson | James Thomson | [letters to his sisters and accounts by them of his character] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'Swift having been mentioned, Johnson, as usual, treated him with little respect as an author. Some of us endeavoured ... | Samuel Johnson | Jonathan Swift | The Conduct of the Allies, and of the Late Ministry, in Beginning and Carrying on the Present War | |
| 1700-1799 | 'Many years ago, when I used to read in the library of your College, I promised to recompence the college for that per... | Samuel Johnson | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mrs. Thrale disputed with him on the merit of Prior. He attacked him powerfully ; said he wrote of love like a man wh... | Samuel Johnson | Matthew Prior | Alexis shunn'd his fellow swains | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'After dinner our conversation first turned upon Pope. Johnson said, his characters of men were admirably drawn, those... | Samuel Johnson | Alexander Pope | Dunciad, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After dinner our conversation first turned upon Pope. Johnson said, his characters of men were admirably drawn, those... | Samuel Johnson | Alexander Pope | Pastorals | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After dinner our conversation first turned upon Pope. Johnson said, his characters of men were admirably drawn, those... | Samuel Johnson | William Congreve | Mourning Bride, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After dinner our conversation first turned upon Pope. Johnson said, his characters of men were admirably drawn, those... | Samuel Johnson | John Dryden | Absalom and Achitophel | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After dinner our conversation first turned upon Pope. Johnson said, his characters of men were admirably drawn, those... | Samuel Johnson | William Shakespeare | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mrs. Montague, a lady distinguished for having written an Essay on Shakspeare [sic], being mentioned:—Reynolds. "I ... | Samuel Johnson | Elizabeth Montagu | Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that h... | Samuel Johnson | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Elements of Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that h... | Samuel Johnson | Edmund Burke | Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that h... | Samuel Johnson | Jean-Baptiste Dubos | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that h... | Samuel Johnson | Dominique Bouhours | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that h... | Samuel Johnson | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The ballad of Hardyknute has no great merit, if it be really ancient. People talk of nature. But mere obvious nature ... | Samuel Johnson | Elizabeth, Lady Wardlaw | Hardyknute | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Boswell. "You have read his [Cibber's] apology, Sir ?" Johnson. "Yes, it is very entertaining. But as for Cibber hims... | Samuel Johnson | Colley Cibber | Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Buchanan (he observed,) has fewer [italics] centos [end italics] than any modern Latin poet. He not only had great kn... | Samuel Johnson | George Buchanan | [poems] | 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 London Chronicle", which was the only newspaper he constantly took in, being brought, the office of reading it a... | Samuel Johnson | [n/a] | London Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | '[Boswell having expressed doubt about the power of prayer, Johnson] mentioned Dr. Clarke and Bishop Bramhall on "Libe... | Samuel Johnson | John Bramhall | Discourse of Liberty and Necessity | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Boswell having expressed doubt about the power of prayer, Johnson] mentioned Dr. Clarke and Bishop Bramhall on "Libe... | Samuel Johnson | South | Sermons on Prayer | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[from an account by Dr Maxwell, an Irish london-based priest friend of Johnson] Speaking of Mr. Harte, Canon of Winds... | Samuel Johnson | Walter Harte | History of the life of Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[from an account by Dr Maxwell, an Irish london-based priest friend of Johnson] Speaking of Mr. Harte, Canon of Winds... | Samuel Johnson | [unknown] | ['black letter', ie gothic text books - medieval to 16th c.] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[from an account by Dr Maxwell, an Irish london-based priest friend of Johnson] Speaking of Mr. Harte, Canon of Winds... | Samuel Johnson | Robert Burton | Anatomy of Melancholy, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[from an account by Dr Maxwell, an Irish London-based priest friend of Johnson] He much commended Law's "Serious Call... | Samuel Johnson | William Law | Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Of Dr. Priestley's theological works, he remarked, that they tended to unsettle every thing, and yet settled nothing.... | Samuel Johnson | Joseph Priestley | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Speaking of the French novels, compared with Richardson's, he said, they might be pretty baubles, but a wren was not ... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Richardson | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Speaking of the French novels, compared with Richardson's, he said, they might be pretty baubles, but a wren was not ... | Samuel Johnson | [unknown] | [French novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Lord Lyttelton's Dialogues he deemed a nugatory performance. "That man, (said he,) sat down to write a book, to tell ... | Samuel Johnson | George, first Lord Lyttelton | Dialogues of the Dead | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The poem of "Fingal", he said, was a mere unconnected rhapsody, a tiresome repetition of the same images. "In vain sh... | Samuel Johnson | James MacPherson | 'Fingal: An Ancient Epic Poem' [from Poems of Ossian] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Speaking of Boetius, who was the favourite writer of the middle ages, he said it was very surprising, that upon such ... | Samuel Johnson | Boethius | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Speaking of Arthur Murphy, whom he very much loved, "I don't know (said he) that Arthur can be classed with the very ... | Samuel Johnson | Arthur Murphy | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Speaking of Homer, whom he venerated as the prince of poets, Johnson remarked that the advice given to Diomed by his ... | Samuel Johnson | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was last night at the Club. Dr. Percy has written a long ballad in many [italics] fits [end italics]; it is pretty ... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Percy | Hermit of Warkworth, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | He had said in the morning that "Macaulay's 'History of St. Kilda' was very well written, except some foppery about li... | Samuel Johnson | Kenneth Macaulay | History of St Kilda | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I then reminded him of the schoolmaster's cause [a legal case on corporal punisment that Boswell was defending], and ... | Samuel Johnson | [unknown] | [legal case papers] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Swede [Mr Kristrom] went away, and Mr. Johnson continued his reading of the papers. I said, "I am afraid, Sir, it... | Samuel Johnson | [unknown] | [legal case papers] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'What philosophy suggests to us on this topick [the possibility of life after death] is probable: what Scripture tells... | Samuel Johnson | Henry More | [theological works] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Boswell. "I do not know whether there are any well attested stories of the appearance of ghosts. You know there is a ... | Samuel Johnson | 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 ... | Samuel Johnson | Mark Akenside | Pleasures of Imagination, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He [Dr Johnson] said, "Goldsmith's 'Life of Parnell' is poor; not that it is poorly written, but that he had poor mat... | Samuel Johnson | Oliver Goldsmith | Life of Parnell | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He censured Ruffhead's "Life of Pope"; -and said, "he knew nothing of Pope, and nothing of poetry." He praised Dr. Jo... | Samuel Johnson | Owen Ruffhead | Life of Alexander Pope | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He censured Ruffhead's "Life of Pope"; -and said, "he knew nothing of Pope, and nothing of poetry." He praised Dr. Jo... | Samuel Johnson | 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... | Samuel Johnson | 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... | Samuel Johnson | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, "he was a blockhead :" and upon my expressing my astonishment at so stra... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Richardson | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A book of travels, lately published under the title of [italics] Coriat Junior [end italics], and written by Mr. Pate... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Paterson | Another Traveller: or Cursory Remarks and Critical Observations made upon a Journey through Part of the Netherlands | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A book of travels, lately published under the title of [italics] Coriat Junior [end italics], and written by Mr. Pate... | Samuel Johnson | Laurence Sterne | Sentimental Journey, A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A book of travels, lately published under the title of [italics] Coriat Junior [end italics], and written by Mr. Pate... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Coryat | Coryat's Crudities: Hastily gobled up in Five Moneth's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We talked of Tacitus, and I hazarded an opinion that with all his merit for penetration, shrewdness of judgment, and ... | Samuel Johnson | 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... | Samuel Johnson | [n/a] | Bible | 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... | Samuel Johnson | Francis Osborne | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Beattie's book is, I believe, every day more liked; at least, I like it more as I look more upon it.' | Samuel Johnson | James Beattie | Minstrel, The; or, The Progress of Genius | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have read your kind letter much more than the elegant Pindar which it accompanied'.
| Samuel Johnson | Pindar | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 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 ... | Samuel Johnson | Oliver Goldsmith | [apology for beating a bookseller] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I mentioned Sir John Dalrymple's "Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland", and his discoveries to the prejudice of Lord... | Samuel Johnson | John Dalrymple | Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He talked with approbation of an intended edition of "The Spectator," with notes; two volumes of which had been prepa... | Samuel Johnson | Joseph Addison | Spectator, The | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'He talked with approbation of an intended edition of "The Spectator," with notes; two volumes of which had been prepa... | Samuel Johnson | Joseph Addison | Spectator, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Thursday, April 8, I sat a good part of the evening with him, but he was very silent. He said, "Burnet's 'History ... | Samuel Johnson | Gilbert Burnet | History of My Own Time | 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... | Samuel Johnson | [n/a] | Greek New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Boswell. "I rather think, Sir, that Toryism prevails in this reign." Johnson. "I know not why you should think so, Si... | Samuel Johnson | George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton | History of the Life of Henry the Second | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr. Elphinston talked of a new book that was much admired, and asked Dr. Johnson if he had read it. Johnson. "I have ... | Samuel Johnson | [unknown] | [a recently published book] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Dese... | Samuel Johnson | Oliver Goldsmith | Traveller, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Dese... | Samuel Johnson | Oliver Goldsmith | Deserted Village, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Dese... | Samuel Johnson | Oliver Goldsmith | Roman History From The Foundation of The City of Rom | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Dese... | Samuel Johnson | William Robertson | History of Scotland 1542 - 1603 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Dese... | Samuel Johnson | Oliver Goldsmith | History of England in a Series of Letters from a Nobleman to His Son | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Dese... | Samuel Johnson | Rene Aubert Vertot | Révolutions romains | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Dese... | Samuel Johnson | David Dalrymple | [books of history] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson praised John Bunyan highly. "His 'Pilgrim's Progress' has great merit, both for invention, imagination, and t... | Samuel Johnson | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson praised John Bunyan highly. "His 'Pilgrim's Progress' has great merit, both for invention, imagination, and t... | Samuel Johnson | Dante Alighieri | Divine Comedy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Talking of puns, Johnson, who had a great contempt for that species of wit, deigned to allow that there was one good ... | Samuel Johnson | Monsieur Menage | Menagiana Ou Les Bons Mots | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson said, I might see the subject [a controversy about the Church of Scotland] well treated in the "Defence of Pl... | Samuel Johnson | Henry Wharton | Defence of Pluralities, A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He [Johnson] attacked Lord Monboddo's strange speculation on the primitive state of human nature; observing, "Sir, it... | Samuel Johnson | James Burnett, Lord Monboddo | Of the Origin and Progress of Language | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Letter to George Steevens] I thank you for "Neander", but wish he were not so fine. I will take care of him'.
| Samuel Johnson | Joachim Neander | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Letter to Boswell] Dr. Webster's informations were much less exact and much less determinate than I expected: they a... | Samuel Johnson | Alexander Webster | [census of Scotland] | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Letter from Boswell to Johnson] Your critical notes on the specimen of Lord Hailes's "Annals of Scotland" are excel... | Samuel Johnson | 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... | Samuel Johnson | Izaak Walton | Lives of Dr John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr Richard Hooker, Mr George Herbert and Dr Robert Sanderson | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] There has appeared lately in the papers an account of a boat overset between Mull a... | Samuel Johnson | [n/a] | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Letter from Johnson to Boswell] Last night I corrected the last page of our "Journey to the Hebrides".' | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. | Print: proofs |
| 1700-1799 | 'In his [Johnson's] manuscript diary of this year, there is the following entry:
"Nov. 27. Advent Sunday. I conside... | Samuel Johnson | [n/a] | [Greek Testaments] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In his [Johnson's] manuscript diary of this year, there is the following entry:
"Nov. 27. Advent Sunday. I conside... | Samuel Johnson | Virgil | Eclogues | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In his [Johnson's] manuscript diary of this year, there is the following entry:
"Nov. 27. Advent Sunday. I conside... | Samuel Johnson | Virgil | 8th Eclogue | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In his [Johnson's] manuscript diary of this year, there is the following entry:
"Nov. 27. Advent Sunday. I conside... | Samuel Johnson | Virgil | 1st Georgic | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Letter from Johnson to John Hoole] I have returned your play, which you will find underscored with red, where there ... | Samuel Johnson | John Hoole | Cleonice | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] I have at last sent back Lord Hailes's sheets, I never think about returning them, ... | Samuel Johnson | David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes | Annals of Scotland | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson was in high spirits this evening at the club, and talked with great animation and success. He attacked Swift,... | Samuel Johnson | Jonathan Swift | Tale of a Tub, A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson was in high spirits this evening at the club, and talked with great animation and success. He attacked Swift,... | Samuel Johnson | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson was in high spirits this evening at the club, and talked with great animation and success. He attacked Swift,... | Samuel Johnson | Jonathan Swift | Drapier's Letters, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson was in high spirits this evening at the club, and talked with great animation and success. He attacked Swift,... | Samuel Johnson | Jonathan Swift | Plan for the Improvement of the English Language | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson. "Sheridan is a wonderful admirer of the tragedy of Douglas, and presented its author with a gold medal. Some... | Samuel Johnson | John Home | Douglas, A tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Next day I dined with Johnson at Mr. Thrale's. He attacked Gray, calling him a "dull fellow." Boswell. "I understand ... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Gray | Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | 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 ... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Gray | The Bard: A Pindaric Ode | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Lord Chesterfield's letters being mentioned, Johnson said, "It was not to be wondered at that they had so great a sal... | Samuel Johnson | Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | Letters to his Son | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The "Odes to Obscurity and Oblivion," in ridicule of "cool Mason and warm Gray", being mentioned, Johnson said, "They... | Samuel Johnson | George Colman | Two Odes: To Obscurity and To Oblivion | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The "Odes to Obscurity and Oblivion," in ridicule of "cool Mason and warm Gray", being mentioned, Johnson said, "They... | Samuel Johnson | William Mason | Elfrida | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Lady Miller's collection of verses by fashionable people, which were put into her Vase at Batheaston Villa, near Bath... | Samuel Johnson | [unknown] | [verses deposited in Lady Miller's vase] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr. Johnson, as usual, spoke contemptuously of Colley Cibber. "It is wonderful that a man, who for forty years had li... | Samuel Johnson | Colley Cibber | Careless Husband, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company. Johnson. "I have been reading Twiss's 'Travel... | Samuel Johnson | Richard Twiss | Travels through Portugal and Spain | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company. Johnson. "I have been reading Twiss's 'Travel... | Samuel Johnson | John George Keysler | Travels through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, and Lorrain | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company. Johnson. "I have been reading Twiss's 'Travel... | Samuel Johnson | Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville | Travels through Holland, Germany and Switzerland, but especially Italy, with maps | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company. Johnson. "I have been reading Twiss's 'Travel... | Samuel Johnson | Patrick Brydone | Tour Through Sicily and Malta: In a Series of Letters to William Beckford | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company. Johnson. "I have been reading Twiss's 'Travel... | Samuel Johnson | Joseph Addison | Remarks on Several Parts of Italy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company. Johnson. "I have been reading Twiss's 'Travel... | Samuel Johnson | Richard Pococke | Description of the East and Some other Countries, | 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 ... | Samuel Johnson | John Scott | [Elegies] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He talked of Isaac Walton's "Lives", which was one of his most favourite books. Dr. Donne's "Life", he said, was the ... | Samuel Johnson | Izaak Walton | Lives of Dr John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr Richard Hooker, Mr George Herbert and Dr Robert Sanderson | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Johnson said] "Hudibras" affords a strong proof how much hold political principles had then upon the minds of men. T... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Butler | Hudibras | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson praised "The Spectator," particularly the character of Sir Roger de Coverley. He said, "Sir Roger did not die... | Samuel Johnson | Joseph Addison | Spectator, The [Roger de Coverley essays] | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson praised "The Spectator," particularly the character of Sir Roger de Coverley. He said, "Sir Roger did not die... | Samuel Johnson | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] I have now three parcels of Lord Hailes's history, which I purpose to return all the... | Samuel Johnson | David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes | Annals of Scotland | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] I have now three parcels of Lord Hailes's history, which I purpose to return all the... | Samuel Johnson | Charles-Jean-François Henault | [history] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Oct. 24. Tuesday. We visited the King's library.—I saw the "Speculum humanae Salvationis", rudely printed with ink,... | Samuel Johnson | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Oct. 24. Tuesday. We visited the King's library.—I saw the "Speculum humanae Salvationis", rudely printed with ink,... | Samuel Johnson | anon. | Speculum humanae Salvationis | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Oct. 24. Tuesday. We visited the King's library.—I saw the "Speculum humanae Salvationis", rudely printed with ink,... | Samuel Johnson | [n/a] | Durandi Sanctuarium | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Oct. 25. Wednesday. I went with the Prior to St. Cloud, to see Dr. Hooke.—We walked round the palace, and had some ... | Samuel Johnson | Giovanni Boccacio | [tales from the 'Decameron'] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Oct. 25. Wednesday. I went with the Prior to St. Cloud, to see Dr. Hooke.—We walked round the palace, and had some ... | Samuel Johnson | Petrarch | [unknown oration] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Oct. 25. Wednesday. I went with the Prior to St. Cloud, to see Dr. Hooke.—We walked round the palace, and had some ... | Samuel Johnson | Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland | [unknown text - letters?- presumably addressed to his associate George Sandys] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Oct. 25. Wednesday. I went with the Prior to St. Cloud, to see Dr. Hooke.—We walked round the palace, and had some ... | Samuel Johnson | John Dryden | [preface to his 'Poetical Miscellanies', vol. 3] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Letter to Boswell] I Have at last sent you all Lord Hailes's papers. While I was in France, I looked very often into... | Samuel Johnson | David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes | Annals of Scotland | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Letter to Boswell] I Have at last sent you all Lord Hailes's papers. While I was in France, I looked very often into... | Samuel Johnson | Charles Jean François Henault | Abrege chronologique de l'histoire de France | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Johnson opined that] Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy" is a valuable work. It is, perhaps, overloaded with quotation.... | Samuel Johnson | Robert Burton | Anatomy of Melancholy, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Boswell. "But, Sir, may there not be very good conversation without a contest for superiority." Johnson. "No animated... | Samuel Johnson | Jason de Nores | [edition of Horace with commentary] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Boswell. "But, Sir, may there not be very good conversation without a contest for superiority." Johnson. "No animated... | Samuel Johnson | Richard Bentley | [edition of Horace with commentary] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said] "When Lord Lyttelton's 'Dialogues of the Dead' came out, one of which is between Apicius, an ancient ... | Samuel Johnson | John Campbell | Political Survey of Great Britain, A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I censured some ludicrous fantastick dialogues between two coach horses and other such stuff, which Baretti had latel... | Samuel Johnson | Laurence Sterne | Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He spoke slightingly of Dyer's "Fleece".— "The subject, Sir, cannot be made poetical. How can a man write poeticall... | Samuel Johnson | John Dyer | Fleece, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He spoke slightingly of Dyer's "Fleece".— "The subject, Sir, cannot be made poetical. How can a man write poeticall... | Samuel Johnson | James Grainger | Sugar Cane, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He spoke slightingly of Dyer's "Fleece".— "The subject, Sir, cannot be made poetical. How can a man write poeticall... | Samuel Johnson | James Grainger | Poetical translation of the elegies of Tibullus, A; and of the poems of Sulpicia | 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 ... | Samuel Johnson | Robert Barclay | Apology for the True Christian Divinity | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said] The excellent Mr. Nelson's "Festivals and Fasts," which has, I understand, the greatest sale of any b... | Samuel Johnson | Robert Nelson | Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England, A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said] The excellent Mr. Nelson's "Festivals and Fasts," which has, I understand, the greatest sale of any b... | Samuel Johnson | Joseph Holden Pott | [sermons on church holidays] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr. Seward mentioned to us the observations which he had made upon the strata of earth in volcanoes, from which it ap... | Samuel Johnson | Patrick Brydone | Tour Through Sicily and Malta. In A Series of Letters to William Beckford Esq. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson had with him upon this jaunt, "Il Palmerino d'Inghilterra", a romance praised by Cervantes; but did not like ... | Samuel Johnson | Francisco de Morais | Il Palmerino d'Inghilterra | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He recommended Dr. Cheyne's books. I said, I thought Cheyne had been reckoned whimsical. "So he was, (said he,) in so... | Samuel Johnson | George Cheyne | English Malady, The: or, A Treatise of Nervous Diseases of all Kinds | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He recommended Dr. Cheyne's books. I said, I thought Cheyne had been reckoned whimsical. "So he was, (said he,) in so... | Samuel Johnson | George Cheyne | Essay on Health and Long Life | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Dr Johnson] expressed his disapprobation of Dr. Hurd, for having published a mutilated edition under the title of "S... | Samuel Johnson | Abraham Cowley | Selected Works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We talked of Flatman's Poems; and Mrs. Thrale observed, that Pope had partly borrowed from him "The dying Christian t... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Flatman | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr. Murphy said, that "The Memoirs of Gray's Life" set him much higher in his estimation than his poems did; "for you... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Gray | [Memoirs] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr. Murphy said, that "The Memoirs of Gray's Life" set him much higher in his estimation than his poems did; "for you... | Samuel Johnson | Mark Akenside | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr. Murphy said, that "The Memoirs of Gray's Life" set him much higher in his estimation than his poems did; "for you... | Samuel Johnson | William Mason | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Talking of the Reviews, Johnson said, "I think them very impartial: I do not know an instance of partiality". He ment... | Samuel Johnson | | Monthly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Talking of the Reviews, Johnson said, "I think them very impartial: I do not know an instance of partiality". He ment... | Samuel Johnson | | Critical Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Talking of "The Spectator", he said, "It is wonderful that there is such a proportion of bad papers, in the half of t... | Samuel Johnson | Henry Grove | 'Novelty' [essay in The Spectator] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr. Johnson said, "Thomson had a true poetical genius, the power of viewing every thing in a poetical light. His faul... | Samuel Johnson | James Thomson | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said] You may find wit and humour in verse, and yet no poetry. "Hudibras" has a profusion of these; yet it ... | Samuel Johnson | Ibbot | 'Fit of the Spleen, A' | 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... | Samuel Johnson | William Shakespeare | Othello | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He said, he wished to see John Dennis's "Critical Works" collected. Davies said they would not sell. Dr. Johnson seem... | Samuel Johnson | John Dennis | [critical works] | Print: Serial / periodical, presumably not in a book if Johnson wanted them to be collected |
| 1700-1799 | 'He told us, he read Fielding's "Amelia" through without stopping'. | Samuel Johnson | Henry Fielding | Amelia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Sir Joshua [Reynolds] mentioned Mr. Cumberland's "Odes", which were just published. JOHNSON. "Why, Sir, they would ha... | Samuel Johnson | Richard Cumberland | [Odes] | Print: Book |
| 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;... | Samuel Johnson | 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 ... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Chatterton | [poems supposedly by Thomas Rowley] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson said of Chatterton, "This is the most extraordinary young man that has encountered my knowledge. It is wonder... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Chatterton | [poems supposedly by Thomas Rowley] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said] The little volumes entitled "Respublicae", which are very well done, were a bookseller's work'.
| Samuel Johnson | | Respublicae | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said] Lord Chesterfield's "Letters to his Son", I think, might be made a very pretty book. Take out the imm... | Samuel Johnson | Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | Letters to his Son | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read (said he [Johnson],) Sharpe's letters on Italy over again, when I was at Bath. There is a great deal of matter... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Sharp | Letters from Italy, describing the Customs and Manners of that Country | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said] Lord Hailes's "Annals of Scotland" have not that painted form which is the taste of this age; but it ... | Samuel Johnson | David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes | Annals of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I asked him whether he would advise me to read the Bible with a commentary, and what commentaries he would recommend.... | Samuel Johnson | William Lowth | [biblical commentaries - old testament] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I asked him whether he would advise me to read the Bible with a commentary, and what commentaries he would recommend.... | Samuel Johnson | Patrick | [biblical commentaries - old testament] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I asked him whether he would advise me to read the Bible with a commentary, and what commentaries he would recommend.... | Samuel Johnson | Henry Hammond | A Paraphrase and Annotations Upon All the Books of the New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'BOSWELL. "Yet Cibber was a man of observation?" JOHNSON. "I think not." BOSWELL. "You will allow his 'Apology' to be ... | Samuel Johnson | Colley Cibber | [Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'BOSWELL. "Yet Cibber was a man of observation?" JOHNSON. "I think not." BOSWELL. "You will allow his 'Apology' to be ... | Samuel Johnson | Colley Cibber | An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Johnson said] He [Colley Cibber] abused Pindar to me, and then shewed me an Ode of his own, with an absurd couplet, ... | Samuel Johnson | Colley Cibber | [an Ode] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr. Johnson and Mr. Wilkes talked of the contested passage in Horace's "Art of Poetry", "[italics] Difficile est prop... | Samuel Johnson | Horace | Ars poetica | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Boswell having complained that he was suffering from melancholy, Johnson wrote] 'Read Cheyne's "English Malady"; but... | Samuel Johnson | George Cheyne | English Malady, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [letter from Johnson to Boswell] Since I wrote, I have looked over Mr. Maclaurin's plea, and think it excellent. [ a... | Samuel Johnson | | [legal documents relating to Mr Maclaurin] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[letter from Boswell to Johnson] I have, since I saw you, read every word of Granger's "Biographical History". It has... | Samuel Johnson | James Granger | Biographical History of England from Egbert the Great to the Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[letter from Johnson to Boswell] Xenophon observes, in his "Treatise of Oeconomy", that if every thing be kept in a c... | Samuel Johnson | Xenophon | Oeconomicus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [publisher Mr Strahan] received from Johnson on Christmas-eve, a note in which was the following paragraph:
"I h... | Samuel Johnson | Hugh Blair | [a sermon] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | ' [letter from Johnson to Boswell] Dr. Blair is printing some sermons. If they are all like the first, which I have re... | Samuel Johnson | Hugh Blair | [A Sermon] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | ' [letter from Johnson to Boswell] Please to return Dr. Blair thanks for his sermons. The Scotch write English wonderf... | Samuel Johnson | Hugh Blair | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[letter from Johnson to Charles O' Connor] Dr. Leland begins his history too late: the ages which deserve an exact en... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Leland | History of Ireland from the Invasion of Henry II, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'This letter [printed above; from Dr Dodd, a clergyman condemned to death, asking Johnson to help him appeal for cleme... | Samuel Johnson | William Dodd | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 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... | Samuel Johnson | William Hamilton | 'Ah the poor shepherd's mournful fate' | 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... | Samuel Johnson | William Hamilton | [imitations of Horace] | 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... | Samuel Johnson | William Hamilton | 'Inscription in a Summer house' | 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... | Samuel Johnson | William Hamilton | [poem on Winter] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He [Johnson] observed, that a gentleman of eminence in literature [Thomas Warton] had got into a bad style of poetry ... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Warton | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson] praised Blair's sermons: "Yet", said he, (willing to let us see he was aware that fashionable fame, howeve... | Samuel Johnson | Hugh Blair | Sermons | 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... | Samuel Johnson | | Critical Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 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. ... | Samuel Johnson | George Forster | Voyage Round the World in his Britannic Majesty's sloop, Resolution, A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr. Burke's "Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol, on the affairs of America", being mentioned, Johnson censured the com... | Samuel Johnson | Edmund Burke | Letter To The Sheriffs Of Bristol | Print: Unknown |
| 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... | Samuel Johnson | Gilbert Burnet | Some passages of the life and death of the Right Honourable John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester | 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... | Samuel Johnson | John Wilmot, Lord Rochester | [Poems] | 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... | Samuel Johnson | Matthew Prior | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He repeated a good many lines of Horace's "Odes", while we were in the chaise. I remember particularly the Ode [itali... | Samuel Johnson | Horace | Odes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He repeated a good many lines of Horace's "Odes", while we were in the chaise. I remember particularly the Ode [itali... | Samuel Johnson | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He repeated a good many lines of Horace's "Odes", while we were in the chaise. I remember particularly the Ode [itali... | Samuel Johnson | Homer | Iliad and Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He [Johnson] told me that Bacon was a favourite authour with him; but he had never read his works till he was compili... | Samuel Johnson | Francis Bacon | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He praised Grainger's "Ode on Solitude", in Dodsley's "Collection", and repeated, with great energy, the exordium:-
... | Samuel Johnson | James Grainger | 'Ode on Solitude' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson. "I have been reading Thicknesse's Travels, which I think are entertaining." Boswell. "What, Sir, a good book... | Samuel Johnson | Philip Thicknesse | Observations on the Customs and Manners of the French Nation | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He [Johnson] was very silent this evening ; and read in a variety of books ; suddenly throwing down one, and taking u... | Samuel Johnson | | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I had lent him "An Account of Scotland, in 1702," written by a man of various enquiry, an English chaplain to a regim... | Samuel Johnson | Martin Martin | Description of the Western Isles of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I had lent him "An Account of Scotland, in 1702," written by a man of various enquiry, an English chaplain to a regim... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Morer | Short Account of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He [Johnson] was for a considerable time occupied in reading "Memoires de Fontenelle" leaning and swinging upon the l... | Samuel Johnson | abbe Trublet | Mémoires pour servir a l'histoire de la vie et des ouvrages de M. de Fontenelle | 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... | Samuel Johnson | Francis Atterbury | [Sermons] | Print: Unknown |
| 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... | Samuel Johnson | John Tillotson | [Sermons] | Print: Unknown |
| 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... | Samuel Johnson | Robert South | [Sermons] | Print: Unknown |
| 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... | Samuel Johnson | Seed | [Sermons] | Print: Unknown |
| 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... | Samuel Johnson | John Jortin | [Sermons] | Print: Unknown |
| 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... | Samuel Johnson | George Smallridge | [Sermons] | Print: Unknown |
| 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... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Clarke | [Sermons] | Print: Unknown |
| 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... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Ogden | [Sermons] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I found him at home in the morning. He praised Delany's "Observations on Swift ;" said that his book and Lord Orrery'... | Samuel Johnson | Patrick Delany | Observations upon Lord Orrery's Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I found him at home in the morning. He praised Delany's "Observations on Swift ;" said that his book and Lord Orrery'... | Samuel Johnson | John Boyle, 5th earl of Orrery | Remarks on the life and writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift | 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 |
| 1700-1799 | 'Langton. "There is not one bad line in that poem [Goldsmith's 'The Traveller']— no one of Dryden's careless verses.... | Samuel Johnson | Oliver Goldsmith | Traveller, The | 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... | Samuel Johnson | Aeschylus | | 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... | Samuel Johnson | Homer | Iliad and Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'JOHNSON. "Sir William Temple was the first writer who gave cadence to English prose. Before his time they were carele... | Samuel Johnson | Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'JOHNSON. "Sir William Temple was the first writer who gave cadence to English prose. Before his time they were carele... | Samuel Johnson | William Temple | | 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... | Samuel Johnson | Daniel Defoe | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said] "Sir, you know the notion of confinement may be extended, as in the song, "Every island is a prison."... | Samuel Johnson | Robert Dodsley | Collection of Poems by Several Hands | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said] "Sir, you know the notion of confinement may be extended, as in the song, "Every island is a prison."... | Samuel Johnson | Edmund Smith | 'Thales; a monody, sacred to the memory of Dr. Pococke. In imitation of Spenser' | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I this evening boasted, that although I did not write what is called stenography, or short-hand, in appropriated char... | Samuel Johnson | William Robertson | History of America | 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 ... | Samuel Johnson | William Dodd | Thoughts in Prison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Books of Travels having been mentioned, Johnson praised Pennant very highly, as he did at Dunvegan, in the Isle of Sk... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Pennant | Tour in Scotland in 1769, A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'JOHNSON. "He's [Pennant] a [italics] Whig [end italics], Sir; a [italics]sad dog [end italics]. (smiling at his own v... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Pennant | Tour in Scotland in 1769 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson had said that he could repeat a complete chapter of "The Natural History of Iceland", from the Danish of Horr... | Samuel Johnson | Niels Horebow | Natural history of Iceland, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Before dinner Dr. Johnson seized upon Mr. Charles Sheridan's "Account of the late Revolution in Sweden", and seemed t... | Samuel Johnson | Charles Sheridan | History of the late revolution in Sweden , A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'DILLY. "Mrs. Glasse's "Cookery", which is the best, was written by Dr. Hill. Half the trade know this.' JOHNSON. "Wel... | Samuel Johnson | Hannah Glass | Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'JOHNSON. "O! Mr. Dilly-you must know that an English Benedictine Monk at Paris has translated "The Duke of Berwick's ... | Samuel Johnson | James Fitzjames, 1st Duke of Berwick | Memoirs of the Marshall Duke of Berwick | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr. Mayo having asked Johnson's opinion of Soame Jenyns's "View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion";-... | Samuel Johnson | Soame Jenyns | View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'JOHNSON. "The fallacy of that book [Mandeville's "Fable of the Bees"] is, that Mandeville defines neither vices nor b... | Samuel Johnson | Bernard Mandeville | Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Soon after the Honourable Daines Barrington had published his excellent "Observations on the Statutes", Johnson waite... | Samuel Johnson | Daines Barrington | Observations on the Statutes, chiefly the more ancient, from Magna Charta to 21st James I. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We talked of a lady's verses on Ireland. MISS REYNOLDS. "Have you seen them, Sir?" JOHNSON. "No, Madam. I have seen a... | Samuel Johnson | Miss Lucan | [translation from Horace] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'He begged of General Paoli to repeat one of the introductory stanzas of the first book of Tasso's "Jerusalem", which ... | Samuel Johnson | Lucretius | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He begged of General Paoli to repeat one of the introductory stanzas of the first book of Tasso's "Jerusalem", which ... | Samuel Johnson | Homer | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He begged of General Paoli to repeat one of the introductory stanzas of the first book of Tasso's "Jerusalem", which ... | Samuel Johnson | Thucydides | History of the Peloponnesian War | Print: Book |
| | 'We talked of antiquarian researches. JOHNSON. "All that is really known of the ancient state of Britain is contained ... | Samuel Johnson | John Whitaker | History of Manchester | Print: Book |
| | 'He [Johnson] said, "I read yesterday Dr. Blair's sermon on Devotion, from the text 'Cornelius, a devout man.' His doc... | Samuel Johnson | Hugh Blair | [Sermon on Devotion] | Print: Unknown |
| | 'He [Johnson] said, "I have been reading Lord Kames's 'Sketches of the History of Man'. In treating of severity of pun... | Samuel Johnson | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Sketches of the History of Man | Print: Book |
| | 'He [Johnson] said, "I have been reading Lord Kames's 'Sketches of the History of Man'. In treating of severity of pun... | Samuel Johnson | Jean Chappe d'Auteroche | | Print: Book |
| | 'Looking at Messrs. Dilly's splendid edition of Lord Chesterfield's miscellaneous works, he laughed, and said, "Here n... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Johnson | [speeches attributed to Lord Chesterfield] | Print: Book |
| | 'Looking at Messrs. Dilly's splendid edition of Lord Chesterfield's miscellaneous works, he laughed, and said, "Here n... | Samuel Johnson | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Sketches of the History of Man | Print: Book |
| | 'Looking at Messrs. Dilly's splendid edition of Lord Chesterfield's miscellaneous works, he laughed, and said, "Here n... | Samuel Johnson | Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon | History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England | Print: Book |
| | 'This year the Reverend Mr. Horne published his "Letter to Mr. Dunning on the English Particle"; Johnson read it, and ... | Samuel Johnson | George Horne | Letter to Mr Dunning on the English Particle | Print: Unknown |
| | 'He [Johnson] said, "the lyrical part of Horace never can be perfectly translated; so much of the excellence is in the... | Samuel Johnson | Horace | [Odes] | Print: Book |
| | 'We had a quiet comfortable meeting at Mr. Dilly's; nobody there but ourselves. Mr. Dilly mentioned somebody having wi... | Samuel Johnson | John Milton | Tractate: Of Education | |
| | 'We had a quiet comfortable meeting at Mr. Dilly's; nobody there but ourselves. Mr. Dilly mentioned somebody having wi... | Samuel Johnson | John Locke | Some Thoughts Concerning Education | Print: Unknown |
| | 'We had a quiet comfortable meeting at Mr. Dilly's; nobody there but ourselves. Mr. Dilly mentioned somebody having wi... | Samuel Johnson | Isaac Watts | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| | 'Johnson this year expressed great satisfaction at the publication of the first volume of "Discourses to the Royal Aca... | Samuel Johnson | Joshua Reynolds | Discourses Delivered at the Royal Academy | Print: Book |
| | 'My arrival interrupted for a little while the important business of this true representative of Bayes[a clergyman who... | Samuel Johnson | William Tasker | Ode to the Warlike Genius of Britain | Manuscript: Unknown |
| | 'My arrival interrupted for a little while the important business of this true representative of Bayes[a clergyman who... | Samuel Johnson | Horace | Carmen Seculare | Manuscript: Unknown |
| | '[Johnson said] "I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield", which he was afterwards fool enough to expu... | Samuel Johnson | Oliver Goldsmith | Vicar of Wakefield | Manuscript: Unknown |
| | 'Talking of the wonderful concealment of the authour of the celebrated letters signed [italics] Junius [end italics]; ... | Samuel Johnson | Junius [pseud.] | Letters of Junius | Print: Serial / periodical |
| | '[Johnson said] "King James says in his 'Daemonology', 'Magicians command the devils: witches are their servants. The ... | Samuel Johnson | King James I | Daemonology | 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, ... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Parnell | Hermit, The | Print: Book |
| | 'Having regretted to him that I had learnt little Greek, as is too generally the case in Scotland; that I had for a lo... | Samuel Johnson | Sylvanus | First Book of the Iliad | Print: Book |
| | 'Having regretted to him that I had learnt little Greek, as is too generally the case in Scotland; that I had for a lo... | Samuel Johnson | John Dawson | Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament | Print: Book |
| | 'Having regretted to him that I had learnt little Greek, as is too generally the case in Scotland; that I had for a lo... | Samuel Johnson | Georgii Pasoris | Lexicon Graeco-Latinum in Iesu Christi Domini Nostri N. Testamentum | Print: Book |
| | 'Having regretted to him that I had learnt little Greek, as is too generally the case in Scotland; that I had for a lo... | Samuel Johnson | Hesiod | | Print: Book |
| | '[letter from Johnson to Boswell] 'The bearer of this is Dr. Dunbar, of Aberdeen, who has written and published a very... | Samuel Johnson | James Dunbar | Essays on the History of Mankind in Rude and Cultivated Ages | Print: Book |
| | '[from the 1780 Johnsoniana passed to boswell by Bennet Langton] Theocritus is not deserving of very high respect as a... | Samuel Johnson | Theocritus | | Print: Book |
| | '[from the 1780 Johnsoniana passed to boswell by Bennet Langton] Theocritus is not deserving of very high respect as a... | Samuel Johnson | Virgil | Eclogues | Print: Book |
| | '[from the 1780 Johnsoniana passed to boswell by Bennet Langton] Theocritus is not deserving of very high respect as a... | Samuel Johnson | | Sicilian Gossips | Print: Book |
| | '[from the 1780 Johnsoniana passed to Boswell by Bennet Langton] 'Callimachus is a writer of little excellence. The ch... | Samuel Johnson | Callimachus | | Print: Book |
| | '[from the 1780 Johnsoniana passed to Boswell by Bennet Langton] 'Mattaire's account of the Stephani is a heavy book. ... | Samuel Johnson | Mattaire | [various works including Latin verses] | Print: Book |
| | '[from the 1780 Johnsoniana passed to Boswell by Bennet Langton] 'When in good humour he would talk of his own writing... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| | '[from Bennet Langton's collection of 1780 Johnsoniana, passed to Boswell] Of the Preface to Capel's "Shakspeare", he ... | Samuel Johnson | Capel | [Preface to edition of Shakespeare] | Print: Book |
| | '[from Bennet Langton's collection of 1780 Johnsoniana, passed to Boswell] 'Talking of the "Farce of High Life below S... | Samuel Johnson | James Townley | High Life Below Stairs | Print: Book |
| | '[from Bennet Langton's collection of 1780 Johnsoniana, passed to Boswell] 'One night at The Club he produced a transl... | Samuel Johnson | Lord Elibank | [Epitaph on his Lady] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| | '[from Bennet Langton's collection of 1780 Johnsoniana, passed to Boswell] Talking of Gray's "Odes", he said, "They ar... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Gray | Odes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Spanish plays, being wildly and improbably farci... | Samuel Johnson | | [Spanish Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Spanish plays, being wildly and improbably farci... | Samuel Johnson | | [Greek tragedies] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Spanish plays, being wildly and improbably farci... | Samuel Johnson | Homer | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Spanish plays, being wildly and improbably farci... | Samuel Johnson | Virgil | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] As I recollect, Hammond introduces a hag or witc... | Samuel Johnson | James Hammond | Love Elegies | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] 'A gentleman, by no means deficient in literatur... | Samuel Johnson | Clenardus | Greek Grammar | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] 'Of Dodsley's "Publick Virtue, a Poem", he said,... | Samuel Johnson | Robert Dodsley | Publick Virtue, a Poem | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Mr. Langton, when a very young man, read Dodsley... | Samuel Johnson | Robert Dodsley | Cleone, a Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Mr. Langton, when a very young man, read Dodsley... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Otway | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] In the latter part of his life, in order to sati... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas a Kempis | Imitation of Christ | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Johnson one day gave high praise to Dr. Bentley'... | Samuel Johnson | Richard Bentley | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] As an instance of the niceness of his taste, tho... | Samuel Johnson | Pindar | Odes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] He apprehended that the delineation of character... | Samuel Johnson | Xenophon | Anabasis | 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 | '[Johnson said of Rev. Zacariah Mudge] The general course of his life was determined by his profession; he studied the... | Samuel Johnson | Zachariah Mudge | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Johnson said of Rev. Zacariah Mudge] The general course of his life was determined by his profession; he studied the... | Samuel Johnson | Zachariah Mudge | [notes on the Psalms] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Sir Joshua Reynolds praised "Mudge's Sermons". JOHNSON. "'Mudge's Sermons' are good, but not practical. He grasps mor... | Samuel Johnson | Zachariah Mudge | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Sir Joshua Reynolds praised "Mudge's Sermons". JOHNSON. "'Mudge's Sermons' are good, but not practical. He grasps mor... | Samuel Johnson | Hugh Blair | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson praised the Earl of Carlisle's Poems, which his Lordship had published with his name, as not disdaining to be... | Samuel Johnson | Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle | Tragedies and Poems | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He talked little to us in the carriage, being chiefly occupied in reading Dr. Watson's second volume of "Chemical Ess... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Johnson | Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He talked little to us in the carriage, being chiefly occupied in reading Dr. Watson's second volume of "Chemical Ess... | Samuel Johnson | Richard Watson | Chemical Essays | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[letter from Johnson to Thomas Astle] Your notes on Alfred appear to me very judicious and accurate, but they are too... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Astle | [notes on the will of King Alfred] | Print: Book |
| 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... | Samuel Johnson | George Crabbe | Village, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson thought the poems published as translations from Ossian had so little merit, that he said, 'Sir, a man might ... | Samuel Johnson | James Macpherson | [Ossian poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He [Johnson] gave much praise to his friend, Dr. Burney's elegant and entertaining travels, and told Mr. Seward that ... | Samuel Johnson | Charles Burney | Continental Travels 1770-72 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Such was his sensibility, and so much was he affected by pathetick poetry, that, when he was reading Dr. Beattie's "H... | Samuel Johnson | James Beattie | Hermit, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He disapproved much of mingling real facts with fiction. On this account he censured a book entitled "Love and Madnes... | Samuel Johnson | | Love and Madness | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Sir William Chambers, that great Architect, whose works shew a sublimity of genius, and who is esteemed by all who kn... | Samuel Johnson | William Chambers | Designs of Chinese buildings, furniture, dresses, machines, and utensils : to which is annexed a description of their temples, houses, gardens, &c | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson asked Richard Owen Cambridge, Esq., if he had read the Spanish translation of Sallust, said to be written by ... | Samuel Johnson | Virgil | Aeneid | 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... | Samuel Johnson | Delarivier Manley | Adventures of Rivella, or the History of the Author of The New Atalantis | 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... | Samuel Johnson | John Dunton | Life and Errours of John Dunton | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Johnson said] There is in "Camden's Remains", an epitaph upon a very wicked man, who was killed by a fall from his h... | Samuel Johnson | William Camden | Remains Concerning Britain | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Horace having been mentioned; BOSWELL. "There is a great deal of thinking in his works. One finds there almost every ... | Samuel Johnson | Horace | [ode] 'Parcus deorum cultur et infrequens | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Lord Hailes had sent him a present of a curious little printed poem, on repairing the University of Aberdeen, by Davi... | Samuel Johnson | David Mallet | [a poem about Aberdeen] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Johnson said] The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of ev... | Samuel Johnson | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Johnson said] The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of ev... | Samuel Johnson | Virgil | Eclogues | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Johnson said] The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of ev... | Samuel Johnson | Virgil | Georgics | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Johnson said] The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of ev... | Samuel Johnson | Homer | odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I asked him what works of Richard Baxter's I should read. He said, "Read any of them; they are all good".' | Samuel Johnson | Richard Baxter | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ''He spoke often in praise of French literature. "The French are excellent in this, (he would say,) they have a book o... | Samuel Johnson | | [French literature] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Baxter's "Reasons of the Christian Religion", he thought contained the best collection of the evidences of the divini... | Samuel Johnson | Richard Baxter | Reasons of the Christian Religion, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Earl of Carlisle having written a tragedy, entitled "The Father's Revenge", some of his Lordship's friends applie... | Samuel Johnson | Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle | Father's Revenge, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'In this letter [to Boswell from Mr Mickle] he relates his having, while engaged in translating the "Lusiad", had a di... | Samuel Johnson | Luis Vaz de Camoens | Lusiads | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[william Mickle said] Dr. Johnson told me in 1772, that, about twenty years before that time, he himself had a design... | Samuel Johnson | Luis Vaz de Camoens | Lusiads | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [letter from Johnson to bookseller Mr Dilly] There is in the world a set of books which used to be sold by the books... | Samuel Johnson | Richard Burton | Admirable Curiosities, Rarities, and Wonders in England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [letter from Johnson to bookseller Mr Dilly] There is in the world a set of books which used to be sold by the books... | Samuel Johnson | Richard Baxter | Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] 'I have just advanced so far towards recovery as to read a pamphlet; and you may rea... | Samuel Johnson | James Boswell | Letter to the People of Scotland on the Present State of the Nation | |
| 1700-1799 | 'He had dined that day [30th May 1784] at Mr. Hoole's, and Miss Helen Maria Williams being expected in the evening, Mr... | Samuel Johnson | Helen Maria Williams | Ode on the Peace, An | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr. Newton, the Bishop of Bristol, having been mentioned, Johnson, recollecting the manner in which he had been censu... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Newton | Dissertations on the Prophecies Which Have Remarkably Been Fulfilled, And Are Being Fulfilled | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr. Newton, the Bishop of Bristol, having been mentioned, Johnson, recollecting the manner in which he had been censu... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Newton | Account of his Own Life | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Next morning at breakfast, [10th June 1784] he pointed out a passage in Savage's "Wanderer", saying, "These are fine ... | Samuel Johnson | Richard Savage | Wanderer, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Friday, June 11, we talked at breakfast, of forms of prayer. JOHNSON. "I know of no good prayers but those in the ... | Samuel Johnson | | Book of Common Prayer | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Friday, June 11, we talked at breakfast, of forms of prayer. JOHNSON. "I know of no good prayers but those in the ... | Samuel Johnson | | [various books of prayer] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'JOHNSON. "I do not approve of figurative expressions in addressing the Supreme Being; and I never use them. Taylor gi... | Samuel Johnson | Jeremy Taylor | Golden Grove; or a Manuall of daily prayers and litanies | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[present at tea on June 12th was] the Reverend Herbert Croft, who, I am afraid, was somewhat mortified by Dr. Johnson... | Samuel Johnson | Herbert Croft | [Family Discourses] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mrs. Kennicot related, in his [Johnson's] presence, a lively saying of Dr. Johnson to Miss Hannah More, who had expre... | Samuel Johnson | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[speaking of some verses in the notes to Pope's Dunciad, Boswell and Miss Seward wonder who they are by] He was promp... | Samuel Johnson | Mr Lewis | [verses on Pope in notes to the 'Dunciad'] | 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... | Samuel Johnson | | [books of Voyages to the South Seas] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Wednesday, June 19, Dr. Johnson and I returned to London; he was not well to-day, and said very little, employing ... | Samuel Johnson | Euripides | | 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... | Samuel Johnson | | [a newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'He censured a writer of entertaining Travels for assuming a feigned character, saying, (in his sense of the word,) "H... | Samuel Johnson | John Moore | [travels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Though he had no taste for painting, he admired much the manner in which Sir Joshua Reynolds treated of his art, in h... | Samuel Johnson | Joshua Reynolds | Seven Discourses Delivered in the Royal Academy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Though he had no taste for painting, he admired much the manner in which Sir Joshua Reynolds treated of his art, in h... | Samuel Johnson | Joshua Reynolds | Seven Discourses Delivered in the Royal Academy | Print: Book |
| 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... | Samuel Johnson | Anna Seward | [poem on Lichfield] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 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... | Samuel Johnson | Anna Seward | 'Elegy on Captain Cook' | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson having asked for details about Lord Peterborough] "But, (said his Lordship [Lord Eliot,) the best account o... | Samuel Johnson | Daniel Defoe | Memoirs of Captain George Carleton | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[letter from Johnson to Dr Brocklesby] Tell Dr. Heberden, that in the coach I read "Ciceronianus" which I concluded a... | Samuel Johnson | Desiderius Erasmus | Ciceronianus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Letter from Johnson to John Nichols] At Ashbourne, where I had very little company, I had the luck to borrow "Mr. Bo... | Samuel Johnson | | [Mr Bowyer's Life] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Still [in his last days] his love of literature did not fail. A very few days before his death he transmitted to his ... | Samuel Johnson | | Universal history, from the earliest account of time. Compiled from original authors; and illustrated with maps, cuts, notes, &c. With a general index to the whole | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'During his sleepless nights he amused himself by translating into Latin verse, from the Greek, many of the epigrams i... | Samuel Johnson | | Anthologia Graeca | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'when talking on the subject of prayer [to Johnson on his deathbed], Dr. Brocklesby repeated from Juvenal,--
"Oran... | Samuel Johnson | Juvenal | Tenth Satire | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'He seriously entertained the thought of translating "Thuanus". He often talked to me on the subject; and once, in par... | Samuel Johnson | Jacques-Auguste de Thou | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He pressed me to study Dr. Clarke and to read his Sermons. I asked him why he pressed Dr. Clarke, an Arian. "Because,... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Clarke | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Mrs Thrale gives an epitaph translated from French by Bennet Langton, and her own translation] 'I remember Johnson p... | Samuel Johnson | | [French epitaph translated by Mrs Thrale and Bennet Langton] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Ver... | Samuel Johnson | Boethius | Consolation of Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[having been searching for evidence of the truth of Christianity, Johnson] recollecting a Book he had once picked up ... | Samuel Johnson | Hugo Grotius | De veritate religionis Christianae | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He [Johnson] was just nine Years old when having got the play of Hamlet to read in his Father's Kitchen, he read on v... | Samuel Johnson | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'It was on the 18: day of July 1773 that we were sitting in the blue Room at Streatham and were talking of Writers - S... | Samuel Johnson | Richard Steele | [Essays] | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'It was on the 18: day of July 1773 that we were sitting in the blue Room at Streatham and were talking of Writers - S... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Gray | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'It was on the 18: day of July 1773 that we were sitting in the blue Room at Streatham and were talking of Writers - S... | Samuel Johnson | William Mason | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Of Swift's Style which I praised as beautiful he observed; that it had only the Beauty of a Bubble, The Colour says h... | Samuel Johnson | Jonathan Swift | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We talked of Dryden - Buckingham's Play said I has hurt the Reputation of the Poet, great as he was; such is the forc... | Samuel Johnson | George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham | Rehearsal, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'To Richardson as a Writer he gave the highest Praises, but mentioning his unquenchable Thirst after Applause That Man... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Richardson | | 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... | Samuel Johnson | John Dryden | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Burney likewise has experienced his [Johnson's] sportive Humour; when he shewed him his Book about Musick and enquire... | Samuel Johnson | Charles Burney | History of Music | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He had in his Youth been a great Reader of Mandeville, and was very watchful for the Stains of original corruption bo... | Samuel Johnson | Bernard Mandeville | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He had however no Taste for Modern Poetry - Gray Mason &c - Modern Poetry says he one day at our house, is like Moder... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Gray | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He had however no Taste for Modern Poetry - Gray Mason &c - Modern Poetry says he one day at our house, is like Moder... | Samuel Johnson | William Mason | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A propos to Gardening he once advised me to buy myself some famous Book upon the Subject, and read it says he attenti... | Samuel Johnson | | [book on gardening] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Rose [in a debate about the relative worth of Scottish and English writers] to make sure of the Victory - named Fergu... | Samuel Johnson | Jonathan Swift | History Of the Four last years Of the Queen | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Rose [in a debate about the relative worth of Scottish and English writers] to make sure of the Victory - named Fergu... | Samuel Johnson | Adam Ferguson | Essay on the History of Civil Society | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He was however very much nettled by Churchill's Satire that's certain; for he rejected him from among the Poets when ... | Samuel Johnson | Charles Churchill | Ghost, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When I shewed him [Johnson] his Character next day - for he would see it; he said it was a very fine Piece of Writing... | Samuel Johnson | Hester Lynch Thrale | [MS 'character' of Johnson] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'of James Harris Dedication to his Hermes he said that tho' but 14 Lines long, there were 6 Grammatical faults in it'.... | Samuel Johnson | James Harris | [Dedication in] Hermes: or, a Philosophical Inquiry concerning Language and Universal Grammar | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'of Elphinstone's specimen of Martial he [Johnson] said, there was too much Folly in them for Madness, and too much Ma... | Samuel Johnson | Martial | Epigrams | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I shall transcribe some Verses of Doctor Burney's on the same unworthy Subject [herself]; on which Verses Johnson mad... | Samuel Johnson | Charles Burney | [poem about Mrs Thrale] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | ''15:Jan: 1778 Mr Johnson told me today that he had translated Anacreon's Dove, & as they were the first Greek Verses ... | Samuel Johnson | Anacreon | Dove | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Doctor Grainger, Author of the fine Ode to Solitude printed in Dodsley's Miscellanies wrote a poem while he was in th... | Samuel Johnson | James Grainger | Sugar Cane, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have heard Johnson say that there was no Series of Verses in any English Tragedy so sublime & striking as the passa... | Samuel Johnson | William Congreve | Mourning Bride, The | Print: Book |
| | 'I was shewed a little Novel t'other Day which I thought pretty enough & set Burney to read it, little dreaming it was... | Samuel Johnson | Frances Burney | Evelina | Print: Book |
| | 'Johnson says the following 8 lines of Burney are actually sublime - they are the End of a dull copy of Verses enough,... | Samuel Johnson | Charles Burney | [verses on death] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| | 'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin... | Samuel Johnson | William Congreve | Mourning Bride, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '1: August 1779.] Johnson has been diverting himself with imitating Potter's Aeschylus in a translation of some verses... | Samuel Johnson | Aeschylus | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '1: August 1779.] Johnson has been diverting himself with imitating Potter's Aeschylus in a translation of some verses... | Samuel Johnson | Euripides | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr Franklyn, the famous Franklyn contrived a Stove in such a Manner as to make the Flame descend instead of rising up... | Samuel Johnson | Jonathan Odell | [verses on Franklin's stove] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Wyndham and Johnson were talking of Miss Burney's new Novel - 'Tis far superior to Fielding's, says Mr Johnson; her C... | Samuel Johnson | Frances Burney | Cecilia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Sir Henry Ellis to John Wilson Croker, from the British Museum, 29 October 1829:
'I understand from Mr. Murray that... | Samuel Johnson | Horace | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The town soon went wild about the story [Evelina] [...] Mrs. Thrale read it, and liked it better
than Madame Riccob... | Samuel Johnson | Frances Burney | Evelina, or a Young Lady's Entrance into the World | Print: Book |