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THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY
OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
VOLUME X. THE AGE OF JOHNSON
Second Impression, 1920, Corrections and Additions
The errata mentioned in volumes of the History published later than the first
edition of this volume have been corrected in the present impression. In addition,
some misprints noticed later have been corrected, and a few alterations made. The
more important of these are as follows:
The following footnote has been added on p. 158 to 'book,'l. 34
A book bound by Johnson was in Boswell's sale catalogue.
p. 167, footnote 1 for No copy is known. . . separately. read The Proposals are com-
monly wanting. They were printed on a folio sheet and folded in at the end of the
volume, and add a reference to p. 460.
p. 172, footnote 1, 11. 7, 8 for he does not. . . alterations. read a comparison of the
two editions of 1759 shows a large number of alterations affecting the style.
p. 173, footnote 2 for the verses read Garrick's verses.
p. 180, footnote 1 before the Bi-Centenary add The Athenaeum, 11. IX. 1909, and in
p. 231, 1. 25 for invented read adopted.
p. 232, ll. 28, 29 for Goethe. . . the laws read Goethe, from specimens published
earlier by Macpherson, had tried to discover the laws
p. 459, The first entry now reads A bibliography of Samuel Johnson by Courtney,
W. P. , revised by Smith, D. Nichol, was published at Oxford in 1915.
p. 460, l. 41 for The footnote. . . modification. read See footnote, ante, p. 167, and
Courtney and Nichol Smith’s Bibliography, p. 18.
p. 461, last line for printed in the type of read an offprint from
Addenda to the present (2nd) impression
The following should be added to the bibliographies :
pp. 411 ff. chapter 1. Richardson.
The discussion concerning Richardson's supposed indebtedness to Marivaux has
recently been revived, and new evidence brought forward. See Mod. Lang. Rev.
vol. VIII, pp. 464 ff. Oct. 1913, and Modern Philology, vol. xvi, No. 9, January 1919.
pp. 413 ff. chapter 11. Fielding and Smollett.
Under Fielding :
Cross, W. L. The History of Henry Fielding. 3 vols. Yale and Oxford, 1919.
Fielding, H. Selected Essays. Ed. Gerould, G. H. Boston, 1905.
Dobson, A. , Fielding and Andrew Millar. The Library. July 1916.
Wells, J. E. Fielding's Champion and Captain Hercules Vinegar. Mod. Lang. Rev
April 1913.
Some New Facts concerning Fielding's Tumble-Down Dick and Pasquin. Mod.
Lang. Notes (Baltimore). May 1913.
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Wells, J. E. Fielding's Political Purpose in Jonathan Wild. Pab. Mod. Lang. Ask.
America. March 1913.
Under Smollett :
Works. 6 vols. 1904.
Henderson, Andrew. A Second Letter to Dr Samuel Johnson. . . with an impartial
character of Doctor Smollet. n. d. [1775).
pp. 421 ff. chapter 111. Sterne, and the Novel of his Times.
Under Sterne:
Melville, Lewis. Sterne's Eliza. In Some Eccentrics and a Woman. 1911.
Paul, H. Sterne, In Man and Letters. 1901.
Under William Beckford:
The History of the Caliph Vathek. Ed. Ross, E. Denison. 1901.
The Episodes of Vathek. Translated by Sir Frank T. Marzials. With an Introduction
by Lewis Melville. 1912.
read The Proposals are com-
monly wanting. They were printed on a folio sheet and folded in at the end of the
volume, and add a reference to p. 460.
p. 172, footnote 1, 11. 7, 8 for he does not. . . alterations. read a comparison of the
two editions of 1759 shows a large number of alterations affecting the style.
p. 173, footnote 2 for the verses read Garrick's verses.
p. 180, footnote 1 before the Bi-Centenary add The Athenaeum, 11. IX. 1909, and in
p. 231, 1. 25 for invented read adopted.
p. 232, ll. 28, 29 for Goethe. . . the laws read Goethe, from specimens published
earlier by Macpherson, had tried to discover the laws
p. 459, The first entry now reads A bibliography of Samuel Johnson by Courtney,
W. P. , revised by Smith, D. Nichol, was published at Oxford in 1915.
p. 460, l. 41 for The footnote. . . modification. read See footnote, ante, p. 167, and
Courtney and Nichol Smith’s Bibliography, p. 18.
p. 461, last line for printed in the type of read an offprint from
Addenda to the present (2nd) impression
The following should be added to the bibliographies :
pp. 411 ff. chapter 1. Richardson.
The discussion concerning Richardson's supposed indebtedness to Marivaux has
recently been revived, and new evidence brought forward. See Mod. Lang. Rev.
vol. VIII, pp. 464 ff. Oct. 1913, and Modern Philology, vol. xvi, No. 9, January 1919.
pp. 413 ff. chapter 11. Fielding and Smollett.
Under Fielding :
Cross, W. L. The History of Henry Fielding. 3 vols. Yale and Oxford, 1919.
Fielding, H. Selected Essays. Ed. Gerould, G. H. Boston, 1905.
Dobson, A. , Fielding and Andrew Millar. The Library. July 1916.
Wells, J. E. Fielding's Champion and Captain Hercules Vinegar. Mod. Lang. Rev
April 1913.
Some New Facts concerning Fielding's Tumble-Down Dick and Pasquin. Mod.
Lang. Notes (Baltimore). May 1913.
>
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Wells, J. E. Fielding's Political Purpose in Jonathan Wild. Pab. Mod. Lang. Ask.
America. March 1913.
Under Smollett :
Works. 6 vols. 1904.
Henderson, Andrew. A Second Letter to Dr Samuel Johnson. . . with an impartial
character of Doctor Smollet. n. d. [1775).
pp. 421 ff. chapter 111. Sterne, and the Novel of his Times.
Under Sterne:
Melville, Lewis. Sterne's Eliza. In Some Eccentrics and a Woman. 1911.
Paul, H. Sterne, In Man and Letters. 1901.
Under William Beckford:
The History of the Caliph Vathek. Ed. Ross, E. Denison. 1901.
The Episodes of Vathek. Translated by Sir Frank T. Marzials. With an Introduction
by Lewis Melville. 1912.
Melville, Lewis. William Beckford of Fonthill Abbey. In Some Eccentrics and a
Woman. 1911.
Under Frances Burney:
Saintsbury, G. In Essays on English Literature 1780–1860. 2nd Series. 1895.
Under Henry Mackenzie:
Kluge, J. Henry Mackenzie. Sein Leben und seine Werke. Anglia, XXXIV. Halle,
1911.
pp. 450–1, chapter vi. Gray.
Essays and Criticisms. Ed. Northup, C. S. Boston and London, n. d. [1909].
Phelps, W. L. (ed. ). Gray's Poetry and Prose (selections). Boston, 1894.
Thomas Gray. Poems. Ed. Poole, Austin Lane. Oxford, 1917.
Cook, Albert S. (ed. ). A Concordance to the English Poems of Thomas Gray. Boston
and New York, 1908.
Elwin, W. Some Eighteenth Century Men of Letters. Vol. 11. 1902.
Farley's Scandinavian Influences. 1903.
Lowell, J. R. Latest Literary Essays. 1891.
Northup, C. 8. In Notes and Queries. 1911.
Warren, Sir T. H. Gray and Dante in Essays of Poets and Poetry, Ancient and Modern.
1909.
Shelley, H. C. Edward Young, Life and Letters of. 1914.
pp. 451 ff. chapter vii. Young, Collins and Lesser Poets of the Age of Johnson.
William Collins. Poems. Ed. Stone, Christopher, and Poole, Austin Lane. Oxford,
1917.
pp. 459 ff. chapter VIII. Johnson and Boswell.
Under Johnson:
Dobson, Austin.
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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
C. F. CLAY, MANAGER
London: FETTER LANE, E. C.
Edinburgh: 100, PRINCES STREET
Paris : THE GALIGNANI LIBRARY
Berlin : A. ASHER AND CO.
Bombay and Calcutta: MACMILLAN AND CO. , LTD.
Copyrighted in the United States of America by
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THE
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OF
ENGLISH LITERATURE
EDITED BY
Sir A. W. WARD, Litt. D. , F. B. A. , Master of Peterhouse
AND
A. R. WALLER, M. A. , Peterhouse
VOLUME X
THE AGE OF JOHNSON
*ET
*POCO
ALMA
MATER
CANTA
BRIOLA
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.
THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY
OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
VOLUME X. THE AGE OF JOHNSON
Second Impression, 1920, Corrections and Additions
The errata mentioned in volumes of the History published later than the first
edition of this volume have been corrected in the present impression. In addition,
some misprints noticed later have been corrected, and a few alterations made. The
more important of these are as follows:
The following footnote has been added on p. 158 to 'book,'l. 34
A book bound by Johnson was in Boswell's sale catalogue.
p. 167, footnote 1 for No copy is known. . . separately. read The Proposals are com-
monly wanting. They were printed on a folio sheet and folded in at the end of the
volume, and add a reference to p. 460.
p. 172, footnote 1, 11. 7, 8 for he does not. . . alterations. read a comparison of the
two editions of 1759 shows a large number of alterations affecting the style.
p. 173, footnote 2 for the verses read Garrick's verses.
p. 180, footnote 1 before the Bi-Centenary add The Athenaeum, 11. IX. 1909, and in
p. 231, 1. 25 for invented read adopted.
p. 232, ll. 28, 29 for Goethe. . . the laws read Goethe, from specimens published
earlier by Macpherson, had tried to discover the laws
p. 459, The first entry now reads A bibliography of Samuel Johnson by Courtney,
W. P. , revised by Smith, D. Nichol, was published at Oxford in 1915.
p. 460, l. 41 for The footnote. . . modification. read See footnote, ante, p. 167, and
Courtney and Nichol Smith’s Bibliography, p. 18.
p. 461, last line for printed in the type of read an offprint from
Addenda to the present (2nd) impression
The following should be added to the bibliographies :
pp. 411 ff. chapter 1. Richardson.
The discussion concerning Richardson's supposed indebtedness to Marivaux has
recently been revived, and new evidence brought forward. See Mod. Lang. Rev.
vol. VIII, pp. 464 ff. Oct. 1913, and Modern Philology, vol. xvi, No. 9, January 1919.
pp. 413 ff. chapter 11. Fielding and Smollett.
Under Fielding :
Cross, W. L. The History of Henry Fielding. 3 vols. Yale and Oxford, 1919.
Fielding, H. Selected Essays. Ed. Gerould, G. H. Boston, 1905.
Dobson, A. , Fielding and Andrew Millar. The Library. July 1916.
Wells, J. E. Fielding's Champion and Captain Hercules Vinegar. Mod. Lang. Rev
April 1913.
Some New Facts concerning Fielding's Tumble-Down Dick and Pasquin. Mod.
Lang. Notes (Baltimore). May 1913.
>
## p. ii (#12) ##############################################
Wells, J. E. Fielding's Political Purpose in Jonathan Wild. Pab. Mod. Lang. Ask.
America. March 1913.
Under Smollett :
Works. 6 vols. 1904.
Henderson, Andrew. A Second Letter to Dr Samuel Johnson. . . with an impartial
character of Doctor Smollet. n. d. [1775).
pp. 421 ff. chapter 111. Sterne, and the Novel of his Times.
Under Sterne:
Melville, Lewis. Sterne's Eliza. In Some Eccentrics and a Woman. 1911.
Paul, H. Sterne, In Man and Letters. 1901.
Under William Beckford:
The History of the Caliph Vathek. Ed. Ross, E. Denison. 1901.
The Episodes of Vathek. Translated by Sir Frank T. Marzials. With an Introduction
by Lewis Melville. 1912.
read The Proposals are com-
monly wanting. They were printed on a folio sheet and folded in at the end of the
volume, and add a reference to p. 460.
p. 172, footnote 1, 11. 7, 8 for he does not. . . alterations. read a comparison of the
two editions of 1759 shows a large number of alterations affecting the style.
p. 173, footnote 2 for the verses read Garrick's verses.
p. 180, footnote 1 before the Bi-Centenary add The Athenaeum, 11. IX. 1909, and in
p. 231, 1. 25 for invented read adopted.
p. 232, ll. 28, 29 for Goethe. . . the laws read Goethe, from specimens published
earlier by Macpherson, had tried to discover the laws
p. 459, The first entry now reads A bibliography of Samuel Johnson by Courtney,
W. P. , revised by Smith, D. Nichol, was published at Oxford in 1915.
p. 460, l. 41 for The footnote. . . modification. read See footnote, ante, p. 167, and
Courtney and Nichol Smith’s Bibliography, p. 18.
p. 461, last line for printed in the type of read an offprint from
Addenda to the present (2nd) impression
The following should be added to the bibliographies :
pp. 411 ff. chapter 1. Richardson.
The discussion concerning Richardson's supposed indebtedness to Marivaux has
recently been revived, and new evidence brought forward. See Mod. Lang. Rev.
vol. VIII, pp. 464 ff. Oct. 1913, and Modern Philology, vol. xvi, No. 9, January 1919.
pp. 413 ff. chapter 11. Fielding and Smollett.
Under Fielding :
Cross, W. L. The History of Henry Fielding. 3 vols. Yale and Oxford, 1919.
Fielding, H. Selected Essays. Ed. Gerould, G. H. Boston, 1905.
Dobson, A. , Fielding and Andrew Millar. The Library. July 1916.
Wells, J. E. Fielding's Champion and Captain Hercules Vinegar. Mod. Lang. Rev
April 1913.
Some New Facts concerning Fielding's Tumble-Down Dick and Pasquin. Mod.
Lang. Notes (Baltimore). May 1913.
>
## p. ii (#12) ##############################################
Wells, J. E. Fielding's Political Purpose in Jonathan Wild. Pab. Mod. Lang. Ask.
America. March 1913.
Under Smollett :
Works. 6 vols. 1904.
Henderson, Andrew. A Second Letter to Dr Samuel Johnson. . . with an impartial
character of Doctor Smollet. n. d. [1775).
pp. 421 ff. chapter 111. Sterne, and the Novel of his Times.
Under Sterne:
Melville, Lewis. Sterne's Eliza. In Some Eccentrics and a Woman. 1911.
Paul, H. Sterne, In Man and Letters. 1901.
Under William Beckford:
The History of the Caliph Vathek. Ed. Ross, E. Denison. 1901.
The Episodes of Vathek. Translated by Sir Frank T. Marzials. With an Introduction
by Lewis Melville. 1912.
Melville, Lewis. William Beckford of Fonthill Abbey. In Some Eccentrics and a
Woman. 1911.
Under Frances Burney:
Saintsbury, G. In Essays on English Literature 1780–1860. 2nd Series. 1895.
Under Henry Mackenzie:
Kluge, J. Henry Mackenzie. Sein Leben und seine Werke. Anglia, XXXIV. Halle,
1911.
pp. 450–1, chapter vi. Gray.
Essays and Criticisms. Ed. Northup, C. S. Boston and London, n. d. [1909].
Phelps, W. L. (ed. ). Gray's Poetry and Prose (selections). Boston, 1894.
Thomas Gray. Poems. Ed. Poole, Austin Lane. Oxford, 1917.
Cook, Albert S. (ed. ). A Concordance to the English Poems of Thomas Gray. Boston
and New York, 1908.
Elwin, W. Some Eighteenth Century Men of Letters. Vol. 11. 1902.
Farley's Scandinavian Influences. 1903.
Lowell, J. R. Latest Literary Essays. 1891.
Northup, C. 8. In Notes and Queries. 1911.
Warren, Sir T. H. Gray and Dante in Essays of Poets and Poetry, Ancient and Modern.
1909.
Shelley, H. C. Edward Young, Life and Letters of. 1914.
pp. 451 ff. chapter vii. Young, Collins and Lesser Poets of the Age of Johnson.
William Collins. Poems. Ed. Stone, Christopher, and Poole, Austin Lane. Oxford,
1917.
pp. 459 ff. chapter VIII. Johnson and Boswell.
Under Johnson:
Dobson, Austin.
