Authority Cited: Dodsley’s Miscellany; Dodsley; Dodsley’s Agriculture
Author name and dates: Robert Dodsley (1703-1764)
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Author name and dates: Robert Dodsley (1703-1764)
BKG Bio-tweet: Pub. poem when Footman; bookseller; playwright; supported by Chesterfield; pub. Pope, SJ; founded Annual Reg. w/Burke
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- Agriculture; Public virtue: a poem. In three books. I. Agriculture. II. Commerce III. Arts. By R. Dodsley, 1753, London : printed for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall; temperance (p.3); thresher (thrasher in the poem, p.7); tinkle (p.6); twirl (p.8) [BKG Note: Public Virtue was published Nov. 19, 1753, as SJ was working on Dict. Vol 2, and provided headwords only for the letter "T"]
- Miscellany; The FEMALE DRUM: Or, The Origin of CARDS. A Tale. Addrest to the Honourable Miss CARPENTER. in A collection of poems. By several hands. In three volumes. Vol. 3, 1748, London : printed for R. Dodsley at Tully's Head in Pall-Mall; ; find (p.234); also attrib. to Dodsley's Miscellanies, lately published, (in a letter to Mr. Urban signed A.B.) in The Gentleman's Magazine, October 1751, Poetical Essays, p.471 [BKG Note: according to Walpole this poem was by the Hon. & Rev. Hervey Aston (Henry Hervey Aston, 1701-1748), and Miss Carpenter was later Countess of Egremont (see The correspondence of Gray, Walpole, West and Ashton (1734-1771) including more than one hundred letters now first published, ... Paget Jackson Toynbee, compiler, 1915 Oxford, Clarendon Press (p.94)]. See below for an SJ connection to Aston.
- Dodsley (no work cited);
The Oxford DNB states: "Henry kept a curate at Shotley, and only occasionally visited his parish. Nevertheless he was chosen in 1745 to preach the sermon at the annual feast of sons of the clergy at St Paul's Cathedral. The sermon was given on 2 May, and was in fact written by Samuel Johnson. The two had met in 1730 while Hervey's regiment was quartered in Lichfield, and Johnson thereafter held him in an unflinching affection: ‘He was a vicious man, but very kind to me. If you call a dog Hervey, I shall love him’ (Boswell, Life, 1.106). The sermon is a fine piece of oratory, and was published on 27 May 1745 under the name Henry Hervey Aston. He had adopted the name Aston on the death in 1744 without male issue of his wife's brother, by whose will the estate came to her."