Collections
(In chronological order)
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.
(In chronological order)
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10
)
Cambridge, 1750. 2nd edn, Cambridge, 1752; 3rd edn, Cambridge, 1756.
On the Immensity of the Supreme Being. (Seatonian Prize Poem for 1751. )
Cambridge, 1751. 2nd edn, Cambridge, 1753; 3rd edn, London, 1756.
Poems on several occasions. 1752.
On the Omniscience of the Supreme Being. (Seatonian Prize Poem for 1752. )
Cambridge, 1752. 2nd edn. Cambridge, 1756.
The Hilliad. An epic poem. 1753.
On the Power of the Supreme Being. (Seatonian Prize Poem for 1753. )
Cambridge, 1754. 2nd edn. Cambridge, 1758.
On the Goodness of the Supreme Being. (Seatonian Prize Poem for 1755).
Cambridge, 1756. 2nd edn. Cambridge, 1756.
Hymn to the Supreme Being on recovery from a dangerous fit of illness. 1756.
The Works of Horace translated literally into English prose. 2 vols. 1756.
2nd edn, 1762; 3rd edn, 1770; 6th edn, 1790.
A Song to David. 1763.
Rptd 1819, 1895; 1898, ed. Tutin, J. R. ; 1901, ed. Streatfeild, R. A.
Poems. [Reason and Imagination, etc. ] [1763. ]
Poems on several occasions. [Munificence and Modesty, etc. ) (Probably
1763. )
Ode to the Rt Hon. the Earl of Northumberland on his being appointed Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland. With some other pieces. 1764.
Hannah. An oratorio. (1764. ]
A Translation of the Psalms of David. 1765.
A poetical translation of the Fables of Phaedrus, with the Appendix of
Gudius. 1765.
The Works of Horace translated into verse. With a prose interpretation
for the help of students. 1767.
The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ done into familiar verse,
with occasional applications. 1768.
Abimelech. An oratorio. (1768. ]
Browning, R. Parleyings with certain People of Importance in their Day.
With Christopher Smart. Poetical Works, vol. 11. 1902.
Gosse, E. Smart's Poems. In Gossip in a Library. 1892.
Gray, G. J. Bibliography of the writings of Christopher Smart, with
biographical references. (Rptd from the Bibliographical Society's trans-
actions. ) 1903.
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458
Bibliography
Anna Williams (1706-1783)
Miscellanies in Prose and Verse. 1766.
Edward Young
(1) Collected Editions
Works. 6 vols. 1757-78.
New edn. 1774-8. Revised with a Life by Doran, J. 2 vols. 1854.
Poetical Works. With Life by Mitford, J. (Aldine Poets. ) 2 vols. 1834
and 1858.
(2) Particular Works
An Epistle to the Right Honourable the Lord Lansdown. 1713.
A Poem on the Last Day. Oxford, 1713. 2nd edn. 1713.
The Force of Religion, or Vanquish'd Love. Illustrated in the story of the
Lady Jane Gray. 1714. 2nd edn, 1715; 3rd edn, 1715.
On the late Queen's death and his Majesty's accession to the throne. 1714.
A Paraphrase on part of the Book of Job. 1719. 2nd edn. 1719.
Busiris, King of Egypt. A tragedy. 1719.
A Letter to Mr Tickell. Occasion'd by the death of the Rt Hon. Joseph
Addison. 1719. 2nd edn. 1719.
The Revenge. A tragedy, as it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury
Lane. 1721. Ed. Kemble, J. P. 1814.
The Universal Passion. 6 parts. 1725-8. 3rd edn, 1730; 4th edn, 1741.
The Instalment. 1726.
Ocean. An Ode, occasion'd by His Majesty's late royal encouragement of the
sea-service. To which is prefix'd an Ode to the King, and a discourse on
Ode. 1728.
A Vindication of Providence, or a true estimate of human life. 1728.
Imperium Pelagi. A naval lyrick, written in imitation of Pindar's spirit,
occasioned by His Majesty's return, September 1729, and the succeeding
Peace. 1730.
Two Epistles to Mr Pope concerning the authors of the age. 1730.
The Foreign Address. . . in the character of a Sailor. 1734.
The Complaint, or Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality. 9 parts.
1742–5. 8th edn. 1749. Transl. into French, 1769. The Complaint and
The Consolation. Illustrated by William Blake. 1797.
The Brothers. A tragedy. Acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane. 1753.
The Centaur not fabulous. 1754. 4th edn. 1786.
Conjectures on original composition in a letter to the Author of Sir Charles
Grandison. 1759.
Resignation, in two parts and a postscript to Mrg******. 1762.
(3) Biography and Criticism
Eliot, G. Worldliness and Otherworldliness: the poet Young. Essays. 2nd
edn. 1884.
Kind, J. L. Edward Young in Germany. New York, 1906.
Texte, J. Jean Jacques Rousseau and the cosmopolitan spirit in literature.
Transl. by Matthews, J. W. 1899. (Young's influence in France. ]
Thomas, W. Le poète Edward Young (1683–1765). Paris, 1901.
A. T. B.
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Chapter VIII
459
CHAPTER VIII
JOHNSON AND BOSWELL
I. JOHNSON
A bibliography of Johnson's writings by Courtney, W. P. , is in prepara-
- tion, and will be shortly published.
A.
Collections
(In chronological order)
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. Together with his Life, and
Notes on his Lives of the Poets. By Hawkins, Sir John. 11 vols. 1787.
Vols. XII and xi (Debates [ed. Chalmers, George), printed for John
Stockdale; see sec. B, post). 1787. Vol. xiv (Miscellaneous Pieces,
printed for Stockdale. ) 1788. Vol. xv (Miscellaneous Pieces, ed. Gleig,
George). 1789.
A new edition in twelve volumes. With an Essay on his Life and
Genius. By Murphy, Arthur. 1792, 1796, 1801, etc.
[edited by Chalmers, A. ] 12 vols. 1806, etc.
Works, 9 vols. ; Debates, 2 vols. (Oxford English Classics. ) Oxford, 1825.
ed. Lynam, R. 6 vols. 1825.
2 vols. 1850.
16 vols. New York, 1903.
Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces. 3 vols. Ed. Davies, T. Vols. I and 11.
n. d. (1774; ascribed by Boswell to 1773]. Vol. III. 1774.
The first volume consists wholly of pieces by Johnson. In the second
by far the greater number are his. A few others are in the third.
The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. Now first collected in one
volume [ed. Kearsley, George). 1785. New edn, considerably enlarged.
1789.
Complete in one volume. A new edition. London and Gainsbrough,
1785.
Dublin, 1785.
with life by Blagdon, F. W. 1808.
ed. Gilfillan, G. Edinburgh, 1855.
ed. Ward, T. Methuen. [1905. ]
ed. Smith, D. Nichol. Oxford. (In preparation. )
Also in The Works of the English Poets, vol. LXXII, 1790; Anderson's
Poets of Great Britain, vol. xi, Edinburgh, 1793; Park's Works of the
British Poets, vol. xxxvII, 1805 and Suppl. vol. vi, 1809; Chalmers's
Works of the English Poets, vol. xvi, 1810.
The Beauties of Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral,
Critical, and Miscellaneous, accurately extracted from the Works of
Dr Samuel Johnson, and arranged in alphabetical order, etc. 2 vols.
1782. 7th edn, with biographical anecdotes. One vol. 1787. 8th edn
(with biographical'augmentations' from Boswell). 1792.
Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson. Selected and arranged by Hill, G. B.
Oxford, 1888.
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460
Bibliography
B. Separate Works
(In chronological order)
A Voyage to Abyssinia. By Father Jerome Lobo, A Portuguese Jesuit. . . .
With a Continuation of the History of Abyssinia down to the Beginning
of the Eighteenth Century, and Fifteen Dissertations. . . . By Mr Legrand.
From the French. 1735.
To which are added, various other Tracts by the same Author, etc.
1789.
Also in A General Collection of Voyages and Travels, by Pinkerton,
J. , vol. xv, 1814; Cassell's National Library, ed. Morley, A. , 1887.
[The History of the Council of Trent, translated from the Italian of Father
Paul Sarpi; with the author's life, and notes etc. from the French. -
Proposals issued October 1738. "Some sheets were printed off, but the
design was dropt. ' See Boswell, ed. Hill, G. B. , vol. 1, p. 135. ]
London: A Poem, In Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal. R. Dodsley.
1738. 4th edn. 1739. Also in Dodsley's Collection of Poems, 1748, and
later issues; Two Satires. By Samuel Johnson, A. M. , Oxford, 1759;
Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, vol. 11, 1774.
A Compleat Vindication of the Licensers of the Stage, from the Malicious
and Scandalous Aspersions of Mr Brooke, Author of Gustavus Vasa.
With A Proposal for making the Office of Licenser more Extensive and
Effectual. By an Impartial Hand. 1739.
Marmor Norfolciense: or an Essay on an Ancient Prophetical Inscription,
In Monkish Rhyme, Lately Discover'd near Lynn in Norfolk. By
Probus Britanicus. 1739. New edn, with notes, and a dedication to
Samuel Johnson, LL. D. By Tribunus. 1775. Reprint of edn of 1739,
n. d. (1819 or 1820].
An Account of the Life of Mr Richard Savage, Son of the Earl Rivers,
1744. 4th edn. 1769.
Histoires de Richard Savage et de J. Thompson [i. e. James Thomson).
Traduites de l'Anglois par M. Le Tourneur. Paris, 1771.
The Works of Richard Savage, Esq. . . . with an Account of . . . the
Author, by Samuel Johnson, LL. D. Vol. 1. 1775. Another edn.
1777. Rptd in Works of the English Poets, 1781.
An Account of the Life of John Philip Barretier, who was Master of five
Languages at the Age of nine Years. 1744. Rptd from The Gentle-
man's Magazine.
Miscellaneous Observations on the Tragedy of Macbeth: With Remarks on
Sir T. H[anmer]'s Edition of Shakespear. To which is affix'd, Proposals
for a New Edition of Shakespear, with a Specimen. 1745.
[The footnote given ante, p. 167, requires modification. A copy
containing the Proposals is in the library of Worcester college, Oxford.
The sheet is folded into four, and inserted among advertisements at the
conclusion. The bottom half gives two specimen pages, in the small type
selected for the edition. ]
The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language; Addressed to the Right
Honourable Philip Dormer, Earl of Chesterfield; One of His Majesty's
Principal Secretaries of State. 1747.
Prologue and Epilogue, spoken at the opening of the Theatre in Drury-Lane,
1747.
[The Epilogue was by Garrick. ]
The Vanity of Human Wishes. The Tenth Satire of Juvenal, Imitated By
Samuel Johnson. 1749. Also in Two Satires, Oxford, 1759; in Dodsley's
Collection; and in Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, vol. 11, 1774.
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Cambridge, 1750. 2nd edn, Cambridge, 1752; 3rd edn, Cambridge, 1756.
On the Immensity of the Supreme Being. (Seatonian Prize Poem for 1751. )
Cambridge, 1751. 2nd edn, Cambridge, 1753; 3rd edn, London, 1756.
Poems on several occasions. 1752.
On the Omniscience of the Supreme Being. (Seatonian Prize Poem for 1752. )
Cambridge, 1752. 2nd edn. Cambridge, 1756.
The Hilliad. An epic poem. 1753.
On the Power of the Supreme Being. (Seatonian Prize Poem for 1753. )
Cambridge, 1754. 2nd edn. Cambridge, 1758.
On the Goodness of the Supreme Being. (Seatonian Prize Poem for 1755).
Cambridge, 1756. 2nd edn. Cambridge, 1756.
Hymn to the Supreme Being on recovery from a dangerous fit of illness. 1756.
The Works of Horace translated literally into English prose. 2 vols. 1756.
2nd edn, 1762; 3rd edn, 1770; 6th edn, 1790.
A Song to David. 1763.
Rptd 1819, 1895; 1898, ed. Tutin, J. R. ; 1901, ed. Streatfeild, R. A.
Poems. [Reason and Imagination, etc. ] [1763. ]
Poems on several occasions. [Munificence and Modesty, etc. ) (Probably
1763. )
Ode to the Rt Hon. the Earl of Northumberland on his being appointed Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland. With some other pieces. 1764.
Hannah. An oratorio. (1764. ]
A Translation of the Psalms of David. 1765.
A poetical translation of the Fables of Phaedrus, with the Appendix of
Gudius. 1765.
The Works of Horace translated into verse. With a prose interpretation
for the help of students. 1767.
The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ done into familiar verse,
with occasional applications. 1768.
Abimelech. An oratorio. (1768. ]
Browning, R. Parleyings with certain People of Importance in their Day.
With Christopher Smart. Poetical Works, vol. 11. 1902.
Gosse, E. Smart's Poems. In Gossip in a Library. 1892.
Gray, G. J. Bibliography of the writings of Christopher Smart, with
biographical references. (Rptd from the Bibliographical Society's trans-
actions. ) 1903.
## p. 458 (#484) ############################################
458
Bibliography
Anna Williams (1706-1783)
Miscellanies in Prose and Verse. 1766.
Edward Young
(1) Collected Editions
Works. 6 vols. 1757-78.
New edn. 1774-8. Revised with a Life by Doran, J. 2 vols. 1854.
Poetical Works. With Life by Mitford, J. (Aldine Poets. ) 2 vols. 1834
and 1858.
(2) Particular Works
An Epistle to the Right Honourable the Lord Lansdown. 1713.
A Poem on the Last Day. Oxford, 1713. 2nd edn. 1713.
The Force of Religion, or Vanquish'd Love. Illustrated in the story of the
Lady Jane Gray. 1714. 2nd edn, 1715; 3rd edn, 1715.
On the late Queen's death and his Majesty's accession to the throne. 1714.
A Paraphrase on part of the Book of Job. 1719. 2nd edn. 1719.
Busiris, King of Egypt. A tragedy. 1719.
A Letter to Mr Tickell. Occasion'd by the death of the Rt Hon. Joseph
Addison. 1719. 2nd edn. 1719.
The Revenge. A tragedy, as it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury
Lane. 1721. Ed. Kemble, J. P. 1814.
The Universal Passion. 6 parts. 1725-8. 3rd edn, 1730; 4th edn, 1741.
The Instalment. 1726.
Ocean. An Ode, occasion'd by His Majesty's late royal encouragement of the
sea-service. To which is prefix'd an Ode to the King, and a discourse on
Ode. 1728.
A Vindication of Providence, or a true estimate of human life. 1728.
Imperium Pelagi. A naval lyrick, written in imitation of Pindar's spirit,
occasioned by His Majesty's return, September 1729, and the succeeding
Peace. 1730.
Two Epistles to Mr Pope concerning the authors of the age. 1730.
The Foreign Address. . . in the character of a Sailor. 1734.
The Complaint, or Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality. 9 parts.
1742–5. 8th edn. 1749. Transl. into French, 1769. The Complaint and
The Consolation. Illustrated by William Blake. 1797.
The Brothers. A tragedy. Acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane. 1753.
The Centaur not fabulous. 1754. 4th edn. 1786.
Conjectures on original composition in a letter to the Author of Sir Charles
Grandison. 1759.
Resignation, in two parts and a postscript to Mrg******. 1762.
(3) Biography and Criticism
Eliot, G. Worldliness and Otherworldliness: the poet Young. Essays. 2nd
edn. 1884.
Kind, J. L. Edward Young in Germany. New York, 1906.
Texte, J. Jean Jacques Rousseau and the cosmopolitan spirit in literature.
Transl. by Matthews, J. W. 1899. (Young's influence in France. ]
Thomas, W. Le poète Edward Young (1683–1765). Paris, 1901.
A. T. B.
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Chapter VIII
459
CHAPTER VIII
JOHNSON AND BOSWELL
I. JOHNSON
A bibliography of Johnson's writings by Courtney, W. P. , is in prepara-
- tion, and will be shortly published.
A.
Collections
(In chronological order)
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. Together with his Life, and
Notes on his Lives of the Poets. By Hawkins, Sir John. 11 vols. 1787.
Vols. XII and xi (Debates [ed. Chalmers, George), printed for John
Stockdale; see sec. B, post). 1787. Vol. xiv (Miscellaneous Pieces,
printed for Stockdale. ) 1788. Vol. xv (Miscellaneous Pieces, ed. Gleig,
George). 1789.
A new edition in twelve volumes. With an Essay on his Life and
Genius. By Murphy, Arthur. 1792, 1796, 1801, etc.
[edited by Chalmers, A. ] 12 vols. 1806, etc.
Works, 9 vols. ; Debates, 2 vols. (Oxford English Classics. ) Oxford, 1825.
ed. Lynam, R. 6 vols. 1825.
2 vols. 1850.
16 vols. New York, 1903.
Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces. 3 vols. Ed. Davies, T. Vols. I and 11.
n. d. (1774; ascribed by Boswell to 1773]. Vol. III. 1774.
The first volume consists wholly of pieces by Johnson. In the second
by far the greater number are his. A few others are in the third.
The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. Now first collected in one
volume [ed. Kearsley, George). 1785. New edn, considerably enlarged.
1789.
Complete in one volume. A new edition. London and Gainsbrough,
1785.
Dublin, 1785.
with life by Blagdon, F. W. 1808.
ed. Gilfillan, G. Edinburgh, 1855.
ed. Ward, T. Methuen. [1905. ]
ed. Smith, D. Nichol. Oxford. (In preparation. )
Also in The Works of the English Poets, vol. LXXII, 1790; Anderson's
Poets of Great Britain, vol. xi, Edinburgh, 1793; Park's Works of the
British Poets, vol. xxxvII, 1805 and Suppl. vol. vi, 1809; Chalmers's
Works of the English Poets, vol. xvi, 1810.
The Beauties of Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral,
Critical, and Miscellaneous, accurately extracted from the Works of
Dr Samuel Johnson, and arranged in alphabetical order, etc. 2 vols.
1782. 7th edn, with biographical anecdotes. One vol. 1787. 8th edn
(with biographical'augmentations' from Boswell). 1792.
Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson. Selected and arranged by Hill, G. B.
Oxford, 1888.
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460
Bibliography
B. Separate Works
(In chronological order)
A Voyage to Abyssinia. By Father Jerome Lobo, A Portuguese Jesuit. . . .
With a Continuation of the History of Abyssinia down to the Beginning
of the Eighteenth Century, and Fifteen Dissertations. . . . By Mr Legrand.
From the French. 1735.
To which are added, various other Tracts by the same Author, etc.
1789.
Also in A General Collection of Voyages and Travels, by Pinkerton,
J. , vol. xv, 1814; Cassell's National Library, ed. Morley, A. , 1887.
[The History of the Council of Trent, translated from the Italian of Father
Paul Sarpi; with the author's life, and notes etc. from the French. -
Proposals issued October 1738. "Some sheets were printed off, but the
design was dropt. ' See Boswell, ed. Hill, G. B. , vol. 1, p. 135. ]
London: A Poem, In Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal. R. Dodsley.
1738. 4th edn. 1739. Also in Dodsley's Collection of Poems, 1748, and
later issues; Two Satires. By Samuel Johnson, A. M. , Oxford, 1759;
Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, vol. 11, 1774.
A Compleat Vindication of the Licensers of the Stage, from the Malicious
and Scandalous Aspersions of Mr Brooke, Author of Gustavus Vasa.
With A Proposal for making the Office of Licenser more Extensive and
Effectual. By an Impartial Hand. 1739.
Marmor Norfolciense: or an Essay on an Ancient Prophetical Inscription,
In Monkish Rhyme, Lately Discover'd near Lynn in Norfolk. By
Probus Britanicus. 1739. New edn, with notes, and a dedication to
Samuel Johnson, LL. D. By Tribunus. 1775. Reprint of edn of 1739,
n. d. (1819 or 1820].
An Account of the Life of Mr Richard Savage, Son of the Earl Rivers,
1744. 4th edn. 1769.
Histoires de Richard Savage et de J. Thompson [i. e. James Thomson).
Traduites de l'Anglois par M. Le Tourneur. Paris, 1771.
The Works of Richard Savage, Esq. . . . with an Account of . . . the
Author, by Samuel Johnson, LL. D. Vol. 1. 1775. Another edn.
1777. Rptd in Works of the English Poets, 1781.
An Account of the Life of John Philip Barretier, who was Master of five
Languages at the Age of nine Years. 1744. Rptd from The Gentle-
man's Magazine.
Miscellaneous Observations on the Tragedy of Macbeth: With Remarks on
Sir T. H[anmer]'s Edition of Shakespear. To which is affix'd, Proposals
for a New Edition of Shakespear, with a Specimen. 1745.
[The footnote given ante, p. 167, requires modification. A copy
containing the Proposals is in the library of Worcester college, Oxford.
The sheet is folded into four, and inserted among advertisements at the
conclusion. The bottom half gives two specimen pages, in the small type
selected for the edition. ]
The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language; Addressed to the Right
Honourable Philip Dormer, Earl of Chesterfield; One of His Majesty's
Principal Secretaries of State. 1747.
Prologue and Epilogue, spoken at the opening of the Theatre in Drury-Lane,
1747.
[The Epilogue was by Garrick. ]
The Vanity of Human Wishes. The Tenth Satire of Juvenal, Imitated By
Samuel Johnson. 1749. Also in Two Satires, Oxford, 1759; in Dodsley's
Collection; and in Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, vol. 11, 1774.
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