No More Learning

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[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
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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. 22 and
disclaimed in a prefatory note the authorship of Nos. 9, 15, 33, 42, 54, 67,
76, 79, 82, 93, 96, 98. ] 3rd edn; with Additional Essays. 2 vols. 1767.
(The additional essays are An Essay on Epitaphs, rptd from The
Gentleman's Magazine; A Dissertation on the Epitaphs written by
Pope, from the Universal Visiter; and The Bravery of the English
Common Soldiers. ) In Harrison's British Classicks, vol. viii, 1796; The
British Essayists, vols. XXXIII-XXXIV, 1802; and other collections.
Three Letters to The Idler. [1761. ]
[Reynolds's three papers, Nos. 76, 79 and 82. This little volume of
20 pages is printed in the type of the edition of 1761 and, as is stated in
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