With a Continuation of the History of
Abyssinia
down to the Beginning
of the Eighteenth Century, and Fifteen Dissertations.
of the Eighteenth Century, and Fifteen Dissertations.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10
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
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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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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.
Irene: a Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane.
Dodsley. 1749. Other edns: (Dublin) 1749, 1754, 1781.
The Rambler. Numb. 1. Price 2d. To be continued on Tuesdays and
Saturdays. Tuesday, 20 March 1749/50. -No. 208. Saturday, 17 [error
for 14) March 1752. [Each number six pages folio. ] Collected in 2 (or 4)
vols, and issued with the title-page: The Rambler. Nullius addictus
jurare in verba magistri, Quo me cunque rapit tempestas deferor hospes.
Hor. 1751 (some copies 1752, others 1753). Vol. 1(-VIII) (superintended
by Elphinstone, James). Edinburgh, 1750-2. 6 vols. [revised by Johnson).
1752. 11th edn. 1790. Also in Harrison's British Classicks, vol. 1, 1796;
,
The British Essayists, ed. Chalmers, A. , vols. XIX-XXII, 1802; and other
collections.
See Nathan Drake's Essays Illustrative of the Rambler, vol. I,
p. 204,
3
Thornton, Bonnell. 'A Rambler. Number 99999: In the Drury-
Lane Journal, No. III, pp. 67-71, 30 January 1752.
A new Prologue spoken by Mr Garrick, Thursday, 5 April 1750. At the
Representation of Comus, for the benefit of Mrs Elizabeth Foster,
Milton's granddaughter, and only surviving descendant. 1750.
A Dictionary of the English Language: in which The Words are deduced
from their Originals, and Illustrated in their different Significations By
Examples from the best Writers. To which are prefixed, A History of
the Language, and An English Grammar. By Samuel Johnson, A. M.
2 vols. 1755. 4th edn (last revised by Johnson), 1773. With numerous
corrections and additions . . . by Todd, H. J. 4 vols. 1818. Re-edited by
Latham, R. G. 2 vols. 1866–70. And many other edns.
A Dictionary of the English Language. . abstracted from the Folio Edition.
2 vols. 1756. 5th edn. 1773.
The Prince of Abissinia. A Tale. In Two Volumes. Dodsley. 1759. 6th
edn. 1783. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. A Tale. 1787.
Ed. Hill, G. B. Oxford, 1887.
Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. By Samuel Johnson, LL. D. Being a
Facsimile Reproduction of the First Edition published in 1759.
In two volumes. With an introduction by Macaulay, James;
and a bibliographical list of editions of Rasselas. 1884.
Rasselas was translated into French (by Baretti, and by others),
Italian, German, Dutch, Spanish, Hungarian, Polish, Modern Greek and
Bengali.
Dinarbas:
: a Tale: being a continuation of Rasselas. [By Cornelia
Knight. ] 1790.
The Review of A Free Enquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil. [By
Soame Jenyns. ] 1759.
The Idler. 2 vols. Newbery. 1761. Published originally in The Universal
Chronicle or Weekly Gazette (v. infra) from 15 April 1758 to 5 April
1760—104 numbers. (In the collected edition Johnson omitted No.
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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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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B. Separate Works
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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
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Proposals issued October 1738. "Some sheets were printed off, but the
design was dropt. ' See Boswell, ed. Hill, G. B. , vol. 1, p. 135. ]
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1738. 4th edn. 1739. Also in Dodsley's Collection of Poems, 1748, and
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Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, vol. 11, 1774.
A Compleat Vindication of the Licensers of the Stage, from the Malicious
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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,
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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.
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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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461
.
Irene: a Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane.
Dodsley. 1749. Other edns: (Dublin) 1749, 1754, 1781.
The Rambler. Numb. 1. Price 2d. To be continued on Tuesdays and
Saturdays. Tuesday, 20 March 1749/50. -No. 208. Saturday, 17 [error
for 14) March 1752. [Each number six pages folio. ] Collected in 2 (or 4)
vols, and issued with the title-page: The Rambler. Nullius addictus
jurare in verba magistri, Quo me cunque rapit tempestas deferor hospes.
Hor. 1751 (some copies 1752, others 1753). Vol. 1(-VIII) (superintended
by Elphinstone, James). Edinburgh, 1750-2. 6 vols. [revised by Johnson).
1752. 11th edn. 1790. Also in Harrison's British Classicks, vol. 1, 1796;
,
The British Essayists, ed. Chalmers, A. , vols. XIX-XXII, 1802; and other
collections.
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p. 204,
3
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Lane Journal, No. III, pp. 67-71, 30 January 1752.
A new Prologue spoken by Mr Garrick, Thursday, 5 April 1750. At the
Representation of Comus, for the benefit of Mrs Elizabeth Foster,
Milton's granddaughter, and only surviving descendant. 1750.
A Dictionary of the English Language: in which The Words are deduced
from their Originals, and Illustrated in their different Significations By
Examples from the best Writers. To which are prefixed, A History of
the Language, and An English Grammar. By Samuel Johnson, A. M.
2 vols. 1755. 4th edn (last revised by Johnson), 1773. With numerous
corrections and additions . . . by Todd, H. J. 4 vols. 1818. Re-edited by
Latham, R. G. 2 vols. 1866–70. And many other edns.
A Dictionary of the English Language. . abstracted from the Folio Edition.
2 vols. 1756. 5th edn. 1773.
The Prince of Abissinia. A Tale. In Two Volumes. Dodsley. 1759. 6th
edn. 1783. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. A Tale. 1787.
Ed. Hill, G. B. Oxford, 1887.
Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. By Samuel Johnson, LL. D. Being a
Facsimile Reproduction of the First Edition published in 1759.
In two volumes. With an introduction by Macaulay, James;
and a bibliographical list of editions of Rasselas. 1884.
Rasselas was translated into French (by Baretti, and by others),
Italian, German, Dutch, Spanish, Hungarian, Polish, Modern Greek and
Bengali.
Dinarbas:
: a Tale: being a continuation of Rasselas. [By Cornelia
Knight. ] 1790.
The Review of A Free Enquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil. [By
Soame Jenyns. ] 1759.
The Idler. 2 vols. Newbery. 1761. Published originally in The Universal
Chronicle or Weekly Gazette (v. infra) from 15 April 1758 to 5 April
1760—104 numbers. (In the collected edition Johnson omitted No.
