Evidence: | ' [Johnson said] "When Lord Lyttelton's 'Dialogues of the Dead' came out, one of which is between Apicius, an ancient epicure, and Dartineuf, a modern epicure, Dodsley said to me, 'I knew Dartineuf well, for I was once his footman.'"
Biography led us to speak of Dr. John Campbell, who had written a considerable part of the "Biographia Britannica" Johnson, though he valued him highly, was of opinion that there was not so much in his great work, "A Political Survey of Great Britain," as the world had been taught to expect'.
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 20 Mar 1776 | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Robert Dodsley |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1703 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | writer and bookseller |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | n/a |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | George Lyttelton, First Baron Lyttelton |
Title: | Dialogues of the Dead |
Genre: | Fiction, Philosophy |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 21575 | |
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Author: | James Boswell | |
Editor: | R.W. Chapman | |
Title: | Life of Johnson | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 1980 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 695 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | James Boswell, R.W. Chapman (ed.), Life of Johnson (Oxford, 1980), p. 695, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=21575, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
Original date of publication 1791. |
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