Authority Cited: Anon.
Author name and dates: Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) and others
BKG Bio-tweet: Some unknown; some SJ self-quotations; some poetry published anonymously; some perhaps recalled by SJ
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary)
· Anon. (no work cited) See Self-Quotations and Anonymous Quotations in Johnson's Dictionary, W.K. Wimsatt, M.H. Wimsatt, ELH, Vol.15, No. 1, March 1948, Johns Hopkins University Press (also in JSTOR). Wimsatt traced Anonymous quote attributions to the following sources:
chit; These will appear such chits in story, ’Twill turn all politicks to jest. [BKG Note: perhaps Dryden or Rochester -see below]
endure; A charm, that shall to age endure, The mind benevolent and pure.
proceed; He ask’d a clear stage for his muse to proceed in.
Author name and dates: Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) and others
BKG Bio-tweet: Some unknown; some SJ self-quotations; some poetry published anonymously; some perhaps recalled by SJ
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary)
· Anon. (no work cited) See Self-Quotations and Anonymous Quotations in Johnson's Dictionary, W.K. Wimsatt, M.H. Wimsatt, ELH, Vol.15, No. 1, March 1948, Johns Hopkins University Press (also in JSTOR). Wimsatt traced Anonymous quote attributions to the following sources:
- Allusion to Horace (John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, 1647-1680); refine
- Drury Lane Prologue (SJ); pimp, scenick
- Irene Prologue (SJ); enoble, prejudice
- London (SJ); mimick, prowl, rest, terrour, truth
- Rambler No. 110 (SJ); placability
- [Spring] An Ode (SJ); vegetation
- To Miss ....... On her playing the Harpsichord (SJ); modulate
- Vanity of Human Wishes (SJ); luxurious, peace, private, septenial
- Unidentified (by Wimsatt) Source; bravado, breech, candidate, chit, endure, forget, neighbor, paint, proceed (in the 1st Dict ed.); spirit, tangle (attributed to Anonymous in the in the 4th Dict. ed. - the quotes for these two words were given without any attribution in the 1st Dict, ed.); uncared for (the quote for this word was given without any attribution in both the 1st and 4th Dict, ed.)
- Epistle the fourth, to Mr. Lee on his Alexander (John Dryden); candidate
- Letter in Spectator No. 79 (citing a very witty author); paint
- Odyssey, Book VII, l. 152 (Alexander Pope translation); spirit (SJ substitutes "breeze" for "gale" in the source; the quote for this word was given without any attribution in the 1st Dict, ed., and as Anon. in the 4th)
- Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Polity Book V (Richard Hooker); uncared for (the quote for this word was given without any attribution in both the 1st and 4th Dict, ed.)
- Paradise Lost Book IV (John Milton); tangle (the quote for this word was given without any attribution in the 1st Dict, ed., and as Anon. in the 4th)
- The First Hymn of Callimachus to Jupiter (Matthew Prior); neighbor (the quote is attributed to Prior in the 4th Dict. ed.)
- To Dr. Chetwood, when he had the Gout (Dr. Waldren, M.D, Nichols' Select Collection of Poems, 1780, III, p. 178). breech [See W____n)
- To the Supposed Author of the Spectator (Thomas Tickell in Spectator No. 53); forget
- An Apology to Lady Carteret (Johnathan Swift); skreen (added in the 4th Dict. ed.)
- Drury Lane Prologue (SJ); pantomime (the quote is not included in the 4th Dict. ed.)
- Lines Sung by Durastanti, when she took leave of the English Stage (Alexander Pope); bright (added in the 4th Dict. ed.)
- Pastoral III, or Palaemon (John Dryden); sling (the quote is expanded in the 4th Dict. ed. and attributed to Dryden)
- Prologue to Sophonisba (Alexander Pope and David Mallet, 1705-1765); night (the quote is in the 4th, but not in the 1st Dict, ed.)
- Rambler No. 183 (SJ); poison (the quote is not included in the 4th Dict. ed.)
- Summer (James Thompson); palace (the quote is not included in the 4th Dict. ed.)
- To Dr. Chetwood, when he had the Gout (Dr. Waldren, M.D., Nichols' Select Collection of Poems, 1780, III, p. 178); shin
- Westminster-drollery, or, A choice collection of the newest songs & poems both at court and theaters by a person of quality; with additions, 1671, London: Printed for H. Brome at the Gun in St. Paul's Churchyard near the West End; bravado (p.93, Dict.: Spain, to make good the bravado, Names it the invincible armado. Text: The Spanish train, launched forth amain, with many a fine bravado, Their (as they thought but it proved not), Invincible armado ) [BKG Note: inexact quote, perhaps from memory; a 19th century source attributes this to Dorset]
- Bell's Fugitive Poetry, 1789 nizy (added in 1773 Dict.); True critics laugh, and bid the trifling nisi Go read Quintilian. [BKG 2023 Note: Prof. Beth Young has found a 1712 poem addressed to Mr. Addison by a Mr. Webster of Christ-Church, Oxford in vol. III. Inexact quote, perhaps from memory, (nisy in the text) from p.89 (the poem runs from p.88 to p.109). The note with regard to the poem's first publication in 1713 is on p. 171. No further information on Mr. Webster or the earlier publication has been located.]
chit; These will appear such chits in story, ’Twill turn all politicks to jest. [BKG Note: perhaps Dryden or Rochester -see below]
endure; A charm, that shall to age endure, The mind benevolent and pure.
proceed; He ask’d a clear stage for his muse to proceed in.
For the chit quotation, the following was located in The ballad literature and popular music of the olden time, Volume 1
By W. Chappell, 1855
"Dryden refers to it [John Dory], as one of the most hackneyed in his time,
in one of his lampoons:
“But Sunderland, Godolphin, Lory,
These will appear such chits in story,
'Twill turn all politics to jest,
To be repeated, like John Dory,
When fiddlers sing at feasts.”
The above lines were also printed under the name of the “Earl of Rochester.” These lines have also been attributed to "Dr. D'Avenant," presumably Charles.
By W. Chappell, 1855
"Dryden refers to it [John Dory], as one of the most hackneyed in his time,
in one of his lampoons:
“But Sunderland, Godolphin, Lory,
These will appear such chits in story,
'Twill turn all politics to jest,
To be repeated, like John Dory,
When fiddlers sing at feasts.”
The above lines were also printed under the name of the “Earl of Rochester.” These lines have also been attributed to "Dr. D'Avenant," presumably Charles.