Authority Cited: Congreve
Author name and dates: William Congreve (1670-1729)
BKG Bio-tweet: Playwright of comedy of manners; poet; S.J. praised some play passages, thought poetry mediocre; Dryden, Swift, Pope friend
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 26 total Congreve cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 20 total Congreve cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. Seven Congreve cites identified as added in the 1773 Dict. are indicated in bold italic below. SJ's source for the Dict. quotes may be from the title and edition below.]
Author name and dates: William Congreve (1670-1729)
BKG Bio-tweet: Playwright of comedy of manners; poet; S.J. praised some play passages, thought poetry mediocre; Dryden, Swift, Pope friend
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 26 total Congreve cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 20 total Congreve cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. Seven Congreve cites identified as added in the 1773 Dict. are indicated in bold italic below. SJ's source for the Dict. quotes may be from the title and edition below.]
- The works of Mr. William Congreve; in three volumes. Containing his plays and poems. 1717, London : printed for J. Tonson: and sold by W. Taylor in Pater-Noster-Row, and W. Meares and J. Browne without Temple-Bar.
- Old Batchelor & Prologue (v.1); alas; apitpat; argue (Dedication); boil; bray; brutify; cherrycheeked; chronicle; chuck; cockatrice; come (Dedication); [cub]; [denunciation]; deuse (deuce); drein; dormant; downhil (down-hill in text); [sneer];
- Love for Love (v.1); [confide]; [than];
- Way of the World (v.2); belly; borachio; burnish; ear; [geminy (gemini in text)]; [have]; lace; [lubber]; never; pincushion; skipper; snarl; sophi; [smoke ("smoke him" in text)]; sputter; [thing (under think headword in 1755 Dict.)]; [tumbrel];
- Mourning Bride (v.2); reach; rivet; scaffolding; steadfast [stedfast in text]; tranquillity {tranquility in text, same quote as steadfast];
- Epilogue to Oroonoko (v.3); hip; jilt; [BKG Note; the 1696 drama Oroonoko is by Thomas Southerne, the Epilogue was written by Congreve]
- Epistle to the Honorable Charles, Lord Halifax &c. (v.3); claim
- Poems upon Several Occasions (v.3); affect (Amoret); strife (Pindarique Ode, quote replaced S.J. self quotation in 1755 Dict.);
- Preface to Works of Mr.William Congreve (Preface first issued in 1710 works); substitute; [supervise];
- Dedication in The dramatick works of John Dryden, Esq; In six volumes. 1717, London : printed for Jacob Tonson at Shakespear's Head over-against Katharine-Street in the strand; touch
- Congreve (no work cited); expectation [quote not located in 1717 edition]; prog [quote not located in 1717 edition]; whore [quote not located in 1717 edition, perhaps from memory, similar statements in Old B.]