Authority Cited: Bolingbroke; Dissertation on Parties
Author name and dates: Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751)
BKG Bio-tweet: High political offices under Q. Anne; later partisan, historical, philosophical writing; see irony, gallicism, definitions
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) Bibliographic information: part of the following is from W. K. Wimsatt Jr., "Johnson's Treatment of Bolingbroke in the Dictionary," Modern Language Review, Vol. 43, No. 1 (Jan., 1948), pp. 78-80. [BKG Note: Wimsatt did not note the absence of most Bolingbroke quotations in later Dictionary editions. By the 6th edition, only three Bolingbroke citations remain. Two Bolingbroke to Swift citations (numb, alehouse keeper) are attributed by Wimsatt to P&B letters to Swift. These require source investigation. Wimsatt used an 1871 edition of Pope's works.]
Author name and dates: Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751)
BKG Bio-tweet: High political offices under Q. Anne; later partisan, historical, philosophical writing; see irony, gallicism, definitions
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) Bibliographic information: part of the following is from W. K. Wimsatt Jr., "Johnson's Treatment of Bolingbroke in the Dictionary," Modern Language Review, Vol. 43, No. 1 (Jan., 1948), pp. 78-80. [BKG Note: Wimsatt did not note the absence of most Bolingbroke quotations in later Dictionary editions. By the 6th edition, only three Bolingbroke citations remain. Two Bolingbroke to Swift citations (numb, alehouse keeper) are attributed by Wimsatt to P&B letters to Swift. These require source investigation. Wimsatt used an 1871 edition of Pope's works.]
- Bolingbroke to Swift; lustre (not in 6th): letter in Pope’s Works: Brussels, Sept 27, 1729 (?Wimsatt gives a different date); mean (not in 4th); numb (associated with P&B letters to Swift by Wimsatt, not in 4th); alehouse keeper (associated with P&B letters to Swift by Wimsatt, not in 6th)
- Pope and Bolingbroke to Swift; acquaintance, deliverer (not in 4th), mine (not in 4th)
- Dissertation on Parties; cushioned
- Some Reflections on the Present State of the Nation; indolency
- Bolingbroke (no work cited); grace (not in 4th)