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[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.
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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.
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]
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of Pascal Paoli. Glasgow, 1768. 3rd edn, corrected. 1769.
British Essays in favour of the Brave Corsicans: by several hands. Col-
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15 October 1768. ]
The Decision of the Court of Session upon the question of Literary Property;
in the cause John Hinton of London, Bookseller, Pursuer, against
Alexander Donaldson, &c. Edinburgh, 1774.
A Letter to the People of Scotland, On the Present State of the Nation.
Edinburgh, 1783.
A Letter to the People of Scotland, on the Alarming Attempt to infringe
the Articles of the Union, and introduce a Most Pernicious Innovation
by diminishing the number of the Lords of Session. 1785.
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL. D.
1785. 3rd edn. 1786. Ed. Croker, J. W. , 1831, etc. ; ed. Carruthers, R. ,
1851; ed. Fitzgerald, Percy, 1874; ed. Napier, A. , 1884; ed. Hill, G. B. ,
1887. See, also, The Life of Johnson, post.
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