Authority Cited: Creech
Author name and dates: Thomas Creech (1659-1700)
BKG Bio-tweet: Scholar; popular poetic translator of classical works (Lucretius); suicide attributed to defeated love hopes
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG note: about 39 Creech cites in 1755 Dict. vol.1, about 56 cites in vol. 2. Four Creech cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below. The editions of the titles below used by SJ is unknown. Item 36 in The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, 1975, Fleeman, ed. is: "5. Creech's Lucretius, 2 v. &c." Donald Greene, in Samuel Johnson's Library, An Annotated Guide, relates this to the 1682 first edition. However, there was also a 1714 edition: T. Lucretius Carus, of the Nature of Things, In Six Books, Translated into English Verse; By Tho. Creech, A.M. late Fellow of Wadham College in Oxford. In Two Volumes....., 1714, London: Printed by J. Matthews for G. Sawbridge, at the Three Golden Flower de Luces in Little Britain; and sold by ... J. Graves, next Door to White's Chocolate House, St. James.]
Author name and dates: Thomas Creech (1659-1700)
BKG Bio-tweet: Scholar; popular poetic translator of classical works (Lucretius); suicide attributed to defeated love hopes
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG note: about 39 Creech cites in 1755 Dict. vol.1, about 56 cites in vol. 2. Four Creech cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below. The editions of the titles below used by SJ is unknown. Item 36 in The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, 1975, Fleeman, ed. is: "5. Creech's Lucretius, 2 v. &c." Donald Greene, in Samuel Johnson's Library, An Annotated Guide, relates this to the 1682 first edition. However, there was also a 1714 edition: T. Lucretius Carus, of the Nature of Things, In Six Books, Translated into English Verse; By Tho. Creech, A.M. late Fellow of Wadham College in Oxford. In Two Volumes....., 1714, London: Printed by J. Matthews for G. Sawbridge, at the Three Golden Flower de Luces in Little Britain; and sold by ... J. Graves, next Door to White's Chocolate House, St. James.]
- Juvenal’s Satire XIII in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.: Translated into English verse by Mr. Dryden and Several other Eminent Hands : Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccid. 1693, London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, at the Judge's-Head in Chancery-Lane, near Fleetstreet [BKG Note: per the Table of Contents, Creech translated the Thirteenth Satire] ; [assassinate (changed from Dryden's Juv. in 1755 Dict. to Creech in 1773 Dict.)]; [attend (changed from Dryden's Juv. in 1755 Dict. to Creech in 1773 Dict.)]; devinely; feel; fret; front; [lie]; [meet]; [start]; [unthinking (added in 1773 Dict.)];
- Life of Cleomenes [by T. Creech] in Plutarch's Lives. Translated from the Greek, by several hands. In five volumes. ... . To which is prefixt The life of Plutarch, Vol. 4, 1703, London: printed for Jacob Tonson, within Grays-Inn Gate next Grays-Inn Lane; isthmus (p.651). [BKG Note: earlier editions of the above title date to the 1680s. The Life of Cleomenes by Creech is also in Cleomenes, the Spartan heroe a tragedy, as it is acted at the Theatre Royal / written by Mr. Dryden ; to which is prefixt The life of Cleomenes, 1692.]
- Lucretius his six books of epicurean philosophy and Manilius his five books containing a system of the ancient astronomy and astrology together with The philosophy of the Stoicks / both translated into English verse with notes by Mr. Tho. Creech; To which is added the several parts of Lucretius, English'd by Mr. Dryden., 1700, London: Printed and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, OR the 1714 title in the Note above; [touch (added in 1773 Dict., inexact quote, perhaps from memory)];
- Manilius: The five books of Mr. Manilius containing a system of the ancient astronomy and astrology : together with the philosophy of the Stoicks / done into English verse with notes 1697, London: Printed for Jacob Tonson; [atheist]; [bald]; [bear (2)]; belly; capricorn; chill; crab; [crop]; [dodecatemorion]; [dog]; [dug]; eclipse; edge; eternize; execution; [feverish]; [fish]; [flat]; [fold]; front; [globe]; [goat]; [hare]; harp; [high-built]; hinge (2); horoscope; [horse]; [horsebreaker]; [impede]; inscribe; [invent]; [lazily]; lion; [line (2)]; [low]; man (2); [may (in An Account of Manilius)]; [mete (meet in text)]; milky-way; [mutter]; [mythologist (in An Account of Manilius)]; [nadir]; [over-mix]; [overpoise]; [patient]; [patronage]; [pettish]; [phasis]; [prop]; [pry]; ram; [rebate]; [rigging]; [rise]; [roof]; [room]; [scales]; [schematism (in Notes)]; [shorthand]; [spout]; [square]; [station]; [subtend]; three; [treble]; [trine]; [twice]; [twin]; [vertex]; [vileness (in Notes)]; [unalterable]; [unconceived]; [unenjoying]; [unload]; [untoward (same quote as unconceived)]; [urn]; whirl; whirlbat; [wooer (woer in text)]; [youngster];
- Ovid's Amours, Book II, Elegy VI in Miscellany poems containing a new translation of Virgills eclogues, Ovid's love elegies, odes of Horace, and other authors : with several original poems / by the most eminent hands. 1684, London: Printed for Jacob Tonson at the Judges-Head in Chancery-Lane, near Fleet-Street; [obsequies];
- The Odes, Satyrs, and Epistles of Horace Done into English. 1684, London: printed for Jacob Tonson, and sold by Tim. Goodwin at the Maiden-head against St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet; [furl (also quoted by Addison in On Medals)]; [whirl];
- Creech (no work cited);