Authority Cited: Blackmore; Black.
Author name and dates: Richard Blackmore (1654-1729)
BKG Bio-tweet: Physician (without formal study) to Q. Anne; indifferent epic poems of great length; one praised by SJ (“The Creation”)
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) {BKG Note: about 150 citations in vol. 1 and 160 citations in vol. 2 of the 1755 Dict., all poetry, and likely all from Creation. The Creation edition SJ used is unknown; there was a 1718 edition. In the 1773 Dict., SJ adds a new title: Treatise of Consumptions, apparently the 1725 2nd edition, as the quote for gouty was not found in the 1724 edition. Reddick in The Making of Johnson's Dictionary (p.122) says that there are 62 additional Blackmore cites in vol. 2 of the 1773 Dict. My count for 1773 Dict. vol. 2 additions is 55 from the Treatise of Consumptions and four from Creation. My count for vol. 1 additions is four from the Treatise of Consumptions and five from Creation. Blackmore cites added in the 1773 Dict. are indicated in bold italic below.]
Author name and dates: Richard Blackmore (1654-1729)
BKG Bio-tweet: Physician (without formal study) to Q. Anne; indifferent epic poems of great length; one praised by SJ (“The Creation”)
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) {BKG Note: about 150 citations in vol. 1 and 160 citations in vol. 2 of the 1755 Dict., all poetry, and likely all from Creation. The Creation edition SJ used is unknown; there was a 1718 edition. In the 1773 Dict., SJ adds a new title: Treatise of Consumptions, apparently the 1725 2nd edition, as the quote for gouty was not found in the 1724 edition. Reddick in The Making of Johnson's Dictionary (p.122) says that there are 62 additional Blackmore cites in vol. 2 of the 1773 Dict. My count for 1773 Dict. vol. 2 additions is 55 from the Treatise of Consumptions and four from Creation. My count for vol. 1 additions is four from the Treatise of Consumptions and five from Creation. Blackmore cites added in the 1773 Dict. are indicated in bold italic below.]
- Creation: a philosophical poem. In seven books. By Sir Richard Blackmore, Knt. M.D. and Fellow of the College of Physicians in London., 1712, London: printed for S. Buckley, at the Dolphin in Little-Britain; and J. Tonson, at Shakespear's Head over-against Catherine-Street in the Strand; advert; adult; agitates; antimonial; aptly; divorce; double; draw; I; heap (same quote as one in 1755 Dict.); lay; motion; on; one; prevail; problem; spleen; wise; wit; work;
- A treatise of consumptions and other distempers belonging to the breast and lungs. By Sir Richard Blackmore, Kt. M. D. And Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London, the Second Edition, Corrected, 1725, London, printed for John Pemberton, at the Buck and Sun, over against St. Dunstan's Church, Fleetstreet: considerable (p.51); consumption (p.6); generally (p.3); gouty (p.22 of the 2nd edition, 1725); narrow (p.3); net-work (p.19); nourishment (p.1); now (p.32); noxious (p.29); nutritive (p.41); observer (p.11); obstruct (p.34); occasion (p.5); or (p.40); orgasm (p.20); papillous (p.4); parch (p.2); part (p.23); particular (p17);. patient (p.30); perfection (p.2); pituitous (p.13); practice (p.49); pulmonary (p.41); pump (p.18); purity (p.15); purulent (p.11); putrefaction (p.30); rapturous (p.19); real (p.43); rigour (p.30); ropy (p.10); run (p.21); skeleton (p.5); spirit (p.40); spring (p.29); stage (p.26); stringy (p.14); strumous (p.41); substance (p.160); successful (p.50); sufferer (p.41); swelling (p.41); symptom (p.33); tabid (p.6); tender (p.22); thoughtfulness (p.40); tumefy (p.50); tumour (p.16); turn (p.27); valetudinary; venereal; vessel; vomit; well; whence; where; whimsey; wonder. [BKG Note: of the sample verified, almost all are in the first 43 pages of text.]
- Blackmore (no work cited);