Being a
continuation of Dr J-n's Criticism on the Poems of Gray.
continuation of Dr J-n's Criticism on the Poems of Gray.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10
Hill, G.
B.
, vol.
11, p.
338.
[Campbell, Thomas. ) A Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland,
in a series of Letters to John Watkinson, M. D. 1777.
Unpublished Episodes in the Life of Dr Johnson. By Jewitt, Llewellynn.
The Gentleman's Magazine. December 1878.
Johnsoniana. Newly collected and edited by Napier, Robina. 1884.
Johnsonian Miscellanies. Arranged and edited by Hill, George Birkbeck.
2 vols. 1897.
The Reades of Blackwood Hill and Dr Johnson's Ancestry. By Reade, A. L.
1906.
Johnsonian Gleanings. By Reade, A. L. Part 1, 1909. Part 11, 1912.
Bi-Centenary of the Birth of Dr Samuel Johnson. Commemoration
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[Contains hitherto unpublished material. ]
Doctor Johnson and Mrs Thrale: including Mrs Thrale's unpublished
journal of the Welsh tour made in 1774 and much hitherto unpublished
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1755-6, The Annual Register, and The Critical Review.
An Essay on Tragedy, with a Critical Examen of Mahomet and Irene.
1749.
A Letter from a friend in England to Mr (John] Maxwell. . . with a character
of Mr Johnson's English Dictionary lately published, and Mr Maxwell's
Justification of himself. . . . Dublin, 1755.
A Poetical Epistle to Mr Samuel Johnson, A. M. By Mr Murphy. 1760.
A Review of Dr Johnson's New Edition of Shakespeare: In which the
Ignorance, or Inattention, of that Editor is exposed, and the Poet
defended from the Persecution of his Commentators. By W. Kenrick.
1765.
An Examination of Mr Kenrick's Review. (By James Barclay. ) 1766.
A Defence of Mr Kenrick's Review. . . . By a Friend. [R. R. -? W. Kenrick. ]
1766.
The Sale of Authors, A Dialogue, In Imitation of Lucian's Sale of Philo
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[By Archibald Campbell. ]
Lexiphanes, A Dialogue. Imitated from Lucian, and suited to the present
Times. . . . Being An attempt to restore the English Tongue to its
ancient Purity, And to correct, as well as expose, the affected Style, hard
Words, and absurd Phraseology of many late Writers, and particularly
of Our English Lexiphanes, the Rambler. 1767. [By Archibald
Campbell. ] 3rd edn. 1783.
Prose on Several Occasions. By George Colman. Vol. 11. 1787.
[Contains Letter from Lexiphanes, dated 4 December 1770; and
A Sketch of Dr Johnson, signed Chiaro Oscuro. London Packet,
22 December 1775. ]
A Letter to Samuel Johnson, LL. D. 1770. [By Wilkes. ]
The Crisis. In answer to The False Alarm. 1770.
The Constitution Defended, and Pensioner Exposed; in remarks on The False
Alarm. 1770.
[By John Scott, of Amwell. ]
A Refutation of a Pamphlet called Thoughts on the late Transactions re-
specting Falkland's Islands. In a Letter addressed to the Author, and
dedicated to Dr Samuel Johnson. 1771.
Remarks on the Patriot &c. [By John Scott, of Amwell. ] 1775.
An Answer to a Pamphlet, entitled Taxation no Tyranny. Addressed to the
Author, and to Persons in Power. 1775.
Tyranny Unmasked. An Answer to a Late Pamphlet, entitled Taxation no
Tyranny. 1775.
Taxation, Tyranny. Addressed to Samuel Johnson, L. L. D. 1775.
The Pamphlet, entitled, Taxation no Tyranny, candidly considered, and
it's arguments, and pernicious doctrines, exposed and refuted. n. d.
[? 1775].
Resistance no Rebellion: in answer to Doctor Johnson's Taxation no Tyranny.
1775.
A Defence of the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress, in reply
to Taxation no Tyranny. By the Author of Regulus. n. d. [? 1775).
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Chapter VIII
475
6
A Letter to Dr Samuel Johnson; occasioned by his late political publica-
tions. . . . 1775.
[By J. Towers. ]
Remarks on a Voyage to the Hebrides, in a Letter to Samuel Johnson, LL. D.
1775.
A Letter to Dr Samuel Johnson, on His Journey to the Western Isles. By
Andrew Henderson. n. d. [1775].
A Second Letter to Dr Samuel Johnson, in which his wicked and opprobrious
invectives are shewn &c. n. d. (1775].
A Journey to the Highlands of Scotland. With Occasional Remarks on
Dr Johnson's Tour: By a Lady (Mary Ann Hanway). n. d. [? 1776).
An Essay upon the King's Friends, with an account of some discoveries
made in Italy, and found in a Virgil, concerning the Tories. To Dr
S-J -n. 1776.
Remarks on Dr Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Hebrides. . . . By Donald
M’Nicol, Minister of Lismore in Argyleshire. 1779. Rptd 1817.
Remarks on Johnson's Life of Milton. To which are added Milton's Tractate
on Education and Areopagitica. 1780.
[By Archdeacon Francis Blackburne. )
A Cursory Examination of Dr Johnson's Strictures on the Lyric Per-
formances of Gray. 1781.
Deformities of Dr Samuel Johnson. Selected from his Works. 1782.
[By John Callander, of Craigforth. ]
Remarks on Dr Johnson's Life, and Critical Observations on the Works of
Mr Gray. 1782.
[By William Tindal '— British Museum Catalogue. ]
Remarks on Doctor Johnson's Lives of the most eminent English Poets. By
a Yorkshire Freeholder. 1782.
Observations on Dr Johnson's Life of Hammond. 1782.
(By William Beville. See Anderson's Life, 1815, p. 401, and Gentle-
man's Magazine, 1822, Part 2, pp. 188 and 278. ]
A Critical Review of the Works of Dr Samuel Johnson, containing A
particular Vindication of several eminent Characters. 1783.
[By John Callander. ]
A Criticism on the Elegy written in a Country Church-Yard.
Being a
continuation of Dr J-n's Criticism on the Poems of Gray. 1783. 2nd
edn. 1810.
[By John Young, professor of Greek in the university of Glasgow. ]
An Inquiry into some Passages in Dr Johnson's Lives of the Poets: Par-
ticularly his Observations on Lyric Poetry, and the Odes of Gray. By
R. Potter. 1783.
A Dialogue between Dr Johnson and Dr Goldsmith, in the Shades, relative
to the former's Strictures on the English Poets, particularly Pope,
Milton, and Gray. 1785.
Devotional Poetry Vindicated, in some Occasional Remarks on the late Dr
Samuel Johnson's animadversions upon that subject in his Life of
Waller. . . . By Daniel Turner. Oxford (1785).
The Life of Isaac Watts. By Samuel Johnson, LL. D. With notes, con-
taining animadversions and additions [by Samuel Palmer). 1785.
Essay on the Style of Dr Samuel Johnson. By Robert Burrowes. In
Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, vol. 1. 1787.
Two Dialogues; containing a comparative view of the Lives, Characters, and
Writings, of Philip, the late Earl of Chesterfield, and Dr Samuel
Johnson. 1787.
[By William Hayley. ]
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[By Robert Potter. ]
A Critical Enquiry into the Moral Writings of Dr Samuel Johnson. . . . To
which is added an Appendix containing A Dialogue between Boswell
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1
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Chapter VIII
477
II. BOSWELL.
A. Works separately published
An Elegy on the Death of an Amiable Young Lady. With an Epistle from
Menalcas to Lycidas. To which are prefixed three critical recommenda-
tory letters. Edinburgh, 1761.
An Ode to Tragedy. By a Gentleman of Scotland. Edinburgh, MDCLXI
(error for 1761).
The Cub at Newmarket: a tale. 1762.
A Collection of Original Poems, by the Rev. Mr Blacklock, and other Scotch
Gentlemen. Vol. 11. Edinburgh, 1762.
[Boswell had a share in editing this volume, to which he contributed. ]
Critical Strictures on the new Tragedy of Elvira, written by David Malloch.
Flexney, 1763.
[By Boswell, Andrew Erskine, and George Dempster. ]
Letters between The Honourable Andrew Erskine, and James Boswell, Esq.
Flexney, 1763. Ed. Hill, G. B. 1879. Selection, in Letters of Boswell
to Temple. 1857 and 1908.
Dorando, A Spanish Tale. London and Edinburgh, 1767.
The Essence of the Douglas Cause. To which is subjoined, Some Obser-
vations on a Pamphlet lately published, intitled, Considerations on the
Douglas Cause. 1767.
Long extracts are given in the Scots Magazine, Nov. , Dec.
[Campbell, Thomas. ) A Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland,
in a series of Letters to John Watkinson, M. D. 1777.
Unpublished Episodes in the Life of Dr Johnson. By Jewitt, Llewellynn.
The Gentleman's Magazine. December 1878.
Johnsoniana. Newly collected and edited by Napier, Robina. 1884.
Johnsonian Miscellanies. Arranged and edited by Hill, George Birkbeck.
2 vols. 1897.
The Reades of Blackwood Hill and Dr Johnson's Ancestry. By Reade, A. L.
1906.
Johnsonian Gleanings. By Reade, A. L. Part 1, 1909. Part 11, 1912.
Bi-Centenary of the Birth of Dr Samuel Johnson. Commemoration
Festival at Lichfield, September 15th to 19th, 1909. Reports . . . edited
by Raby, J. T. 1909.
[Contains hitherto unpublished material. ]
Doctor Johnson and Mrs Thrale: including Mrs Thrale's unpublished
journal of the Welsh tour made in 1774 and much hitherto unpublished
correspondence of the Streatham coterie. By Broadley, A. M. With
an introductory essay by Seccombe, T. 1910.
a
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474
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a
а
F. Contemporary Criticism
(In chronological order)
In addition to the books or pamphlets noted below, there are the notices
and reriews in the periodicals, such as The Gentleman's Magazine, The
London Magazine, The Monthly Review, The Edinburgh Review,
1755-6, The Annual Register, and The Critical Review.
An Essay on Tragedy, with a Critical Examen of Mahomet and Irene.
1749.
A Letter from a friend in England to Mr (John] Maxwell. . . with a character
of Mr Johnson's English Dictionary lately published, and Mr Maxwell's
Justification of himself. . . . Dublin, 1755.
A Poetical Epistle to Mr Samuel Johnson, A. M. By Mr Murphy. 1760.
A Review of Dr Johnson's New Edition of Shakespeare: In which the
Ignorance, or Inattention, of that Editor is exposed, and the Poet
defended from the Persecution of his Commentators. By W. Kenrick.
1765.
An Examination of Mr Kenrick's Review. (By James Barclay. ) 1766.
A Defence of Mr Kenrick's Review. . . . By a Friend. [R. R. -? W. Kenrick. ]
1766.
The Sale of Authors, A Dialogue, In Imitation of Lucian's Sale of Philo
sophers. 1767.
[By Archibald Campbell. ]
Lexiphanes, A Dialogue. Imitated from Lucian, and suited to the present
Times. . . . Being An attempt to restore the English Tongue to its
ancient Purity, And to correct, as well as expose, the affected Style, hard
Words, and absurd Phraseology of many late Writers, and particularly
of Our English Lexiphanes, the Rambler. 1767. [By Archibald
Campbell. ] 3rd edn. 1783.
Prose on Several Occasions. By George Colman. Vol. 11. 1787.
[Contains Letter from Lexiphanes, dated 4 December 1770; and
A Sketch of Dr Johnson, signed Chiaro Oscuro. London Packet,
22 December 1775. ]
A Letter to Samuel Johnson, LL. D. 1770. [By Wilkes. ]
The Crisis. In answer to The False Alarm. 1770.
The Constitution Defended, and Pensioner Exposed; in remarks on The False
Alarm. 1770.
[By John Scott, of Amwell. ]
A Refutation of a Pamphlet called Thoughts on the late Transactions re-
specting Falkland's Islands. In a Letter addressed to the Author, and
dedicated to Dr Samuel Johnson. 1771.
Remarks on the Patriot &c. [By John Scott, of Amwell. ] 1775.
An Answer to a Pamphlet, entitled Taxation no Tyranny. Addressed to the
Author, and to Persons in Power. 1775.
Tyranny Unmasked. An Answer to a Late Pamphlet, entitled Taxation no
Tyranny. 1775.
Taxation, Tyranny. Addressed to Samuel Johnson, L. L. D. 1775.
The Pamphlet, entitled, Taxation no Tyranny, candidly considered, and
it's arguments, and pernicious doctrines, exposed and refuted. n. d.
[? 1775].
Resistance no Rebellion: in answer to Doctor Johnson's Taxation no Tyranny.
1775.
A Defence of the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress, in reply
to Taxation no Tyranny. By the Author of Regulus. n. d. [? 1775).
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475
6
A Letter to Dr Samuel Johnson; occasioned by his late political publica-
tions. . . . 1775.
[By J. Towers. ]
Remarks on a Voyage to the Hebrides, in a Letter to Samuel Johnson, LL. D.
1775.
A Letter to Dr Samuel Johnson, on His Journey to the Western Isles. By
Andrew Henderson. n. d. [1775].
A Second Letter to Dr Samuel Johnson, in which his wicked and opprobrious
invectives are shewn &c. n. d. (1775].
A Journey to the Highlands of Scotland. With Occasional Remarks on
Dr Johnson's Tour: By a Lady (Mary Ann Hanway). n. d. [? 1776).
An Essay upon the King's Friends, with an account of some discoveries
made in Italy, and found in a Virgil, concerning the Tories. To Dr
S-J -n. 1776.
Remarks on Dr Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Hebrides. . . . By Donald
M’Nicol, Minister of Lismore in Argyleshire. 1779. Rptd 1817.
Remarks on Johnson's Life of Milton. To which are added Milton's Tractate
on Education and Areopagitica. 1780.
[By Archdeacon Francis Blackburne. )
A Cursory Examination of Dr Johnson's Strictures on the Lyric Per-
formances of Gray. 1781.
Deformities of Dr Samuel Johnson. Selected from his Works. 1782.
[By John Callander, of Craigforth. ]
Remarks on Dr Johnson's Life, and Critical Observations on the Works of
Mr Gray. 1782.
[By William Tindal '— British Museum Catalogue. ]
Remarks on Doctor Johnson's Lives of the most eminent English Poets. By
a Yorkshire Freeholder. 1782.
Observations on Dr Johnson's Life of Hammond. 1782.
(By William Beville. See Anderson's Life, 1815, p. 401, and Gentle-
man's Magazine, 1822, Part 2, pp. 188 and 278. ]
A Critical Review of the Works of Dr Samuel Johnson, containing A
particular Vindication of several eminent Characters. 1783.
[By John Callander. ]
A Criticism on the Elegy written in a Country Church-Yard.
Being a
continuation of Dr J-n's Criticism on the Poems of Gray. 1783. 2nd
edn. 1810.
[By John Young, professor of Greek in the university of Glasgow. ]
An Inquiry into some Passages in Dr Johnson's Lives of the Poets: Par-
ticularly his Observations on Lyric Poetry, and the Odes of Gray. By
R. Potter. 1783.
A Dialogue between Dr Johnson and Dr Goldsmith, in the Shades, relative
to the former's Strictures on the English Poets, particularly Pope,
Milton, and Gray. 1785.
Devotional Poetry Vindicated, in some Occasional Remarks on the late Dr
Samuel Johnson's animadversions upon that subject in his Life of
Waller. . . . By Daniel Turner. Oxford (1785).
The Life of Isaac Watts. By Samuel Johnson, LL. D. With notes, con-
taining animadversions and additions [by Samuel Palmer). 1785.
Essay on the Style of Dr Samuel Johnson. By Robert Burrowes. In
Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, vol. 1. 1787.
Two Dialogues; containing a comparative view of the Lives, Characters, and
Writings, of Philip, the late Earl of Chesterfield, and Dr Samuel
Johnson. 1787.
[By William Hayley. ]
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An Unfinished Letter to the Right Honourable William Pitt, concerning
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The Art of Criticism; as exemplified in Dr Johnson's Lives of the Most
Eminent English Poets. 1789.
[By Robert Potter. ]
A Critical Enquiry into the Moral Writings of Dr Samuel Johnson. . . . To
which is added an Appendix containing A Dialogue between Boswell
and Johnson in the Shades. By Attalus. 1802.
[By William Mudford, whose name is given in the edition of 1803. ]
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Chapter VIII
477
II. BOSWELL.
A. Works separately published
An Elegy on the Death of an Amiable Young Lady. With an Epistle from
Menalcas to Lycidas. To which are prefixed three critical recommenda-
tory letters. Edinburgh, 1761.
An Ode to Tragedy. By a Gentleman of Scotland. Edinburgh, MDCLXI
(error for 1761).
The Cub at Newmarket: a tale. 1762.
A Collection of Original Poems, by the Rev. Mr Blacklock, and other Scotch
Gentlemen. Vol. 11. Edinburgh, 1762.
[Boswell had a share in editing this volume, to which he contributed. ]
Critical Strictures on the new Tragedy of Elvira, written by David Malloch.
Flexney, 1763.
[By Boswell, Andrew Erskine, and George Dempster. ]
Letters between The Honourable Andrew Erskine, and James Boswell, Esq.
Flexney, 1763. Ed. Hill, G. B. 1879. Selection, in Letters of Boswell
to Temple. 1857 and 1908.
Dorando, A Spanish Tale. London and Edinburgh, 1767.
The Essence of the Douglas Cause. To which is subjoined, Some Obser-
vations on a Pamphlet lately published, intitled, Considerations on the
Douglas Cause. 1767.
Long extracts are given in the Scots Magazine, Nov. , Dec.
