Authority Cited: Dorset
Author name and dates: Charles Sackville, Lord Buckhurst, later sixth earl of Dorset (1638-1706)
BKG Bio-tweet: Significant offices to succession of Kings; rake; patron to poets; small but pleasing poetic output (SJ in “Life”)
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 11 total cites in vol. 1 of the 1755 Dict., about 9 total cites in vol. 2; one additional citation in the 1773 Dict.; two brief Dorset poems appear in A new miscellany of original poems, on several occasions. Written by the E. of D. Sir Charles Sidley, Sir Fleetw. Shepheard, Mr. Wolesly, Mr. Granvill, Mr. Dryden, Mr. Stepney, Mr. Rowe. And several other Eminent Hands. Never before Printed. 1701, neither of which is quoted in the Dict.; most knowledge of Dorset's poems during his lifetime was from circulated manuscripts.
The works of the most celebrated minor poets. Namely, Wentworth, Earl of Roscommon; Charles, Earl of Dorset; Charles, Earl of Halifax; Sir Samuel Garth; George Stepney, Esq; William Walsh, Esq; Thomas Tickell, Esq. Never before collected and publish'd together. In two volumes. 1749, London: Printed for F. Cogan....; [BKG Note: all of the Dorset poems below are in this title. Per Reddick, in The making of Johnson's Dictionary (204), a copy of this title marked by SJ was in the Hyde Collection, presumably now at Harvard. J.D. Fleeman, in The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, 1975, U. of Victoria, indicates that this copy may be only V.1, and only annotated by SJ for Garth, and not the other poets. [BKG Note: Volume 1 of this title contains only Roscommon, Dorset, Halifax, and Garth. The reason that only Garth is marked in this volume (per Fleeman) may be that SJ had already marked Roscommon, Dorset, and Halifax quotes in another title or another copy of this title]
OR The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset : the Dukes of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire, &c. with memoirs of their lives. in two volumes. Adorned with cuts. 1731, London: (no publisher named) [BKG Note: the first edition was 1718, but without the memoirs. SJ may have used the 1731 title for his later Lives of the Poets. See Yale vol. 19, p.255. To Mr. Edward Howard on his Plays was not located in this title.]
Author name and dates: Charles Sackville, Lord Buckhurst, later sixth earl of Dorset (1638-1706)
BKG Bio-tweet: Significant offices to succession of Kings; rake; patron to poets; small but pleasing poetic output (SJ in “Life”)
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 11 total cites in vol. 1 of the 1755 Dict., about 9 total cites in vol. 2; one additional citation in the 1773 Dict.; two brief Dorset poems appear in A new miscellany of original poems, on several occasions. Written by the E. of D. Sir Charles Sidley, Sir Fleetw. Shepheard, Mr. Wolesly, Mr. Granvill, Mr. Dryden, Mr. Stepney, Mr. Rowe. And several other Eminent Hands. Never before Printed. 1701, neither of which is quoted in the Dict.; most knowledge of Dorset's poems during his lifetime was from circulated manuscripts.
The works of the most celebrated minor poets. Namely, Wentworth, Earl of Roscommon; Charles, Earl of Dorset; Charles, Earl of Halifax; Sir Samuel Garth; George Stepney, Esq; William Walsh, Esq; Thomas Tickell, Esq. Never before collected and publish'd together. In two volumes. 1749, London: Printed for F. Cogan....; [BKG Note: all of the Dorset poems below are in this title. Per Reddick, in The making of Johnson's Dictionary (204), a copy of this title marked by SJ was in the Hyde Collection, presumably now at Harvard. J.D. Fleeman, in The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, 1975, U. of Victoria, indicates that this copy may be only V.1, and only annotated by SJ for Garth, and not the other poets. [BKG Note: Volume 1 of this title contains only Roscommon, Dorset, Halifax, and Garth. The reason that only Garth is marked in this volume (per Fleeman) may be that SJ had already marked Roscommon, Dorset, and Halifax quotes in another title or another copy of this title]
OR The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset : the Dukes of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire, &c. with memoirs of their lives. in two volumes. Adorned with cuts. 1731, London: (no publisher named) [BKG Note: the first edition was 1718, but without the memoirs. SJ may have used the 1731 title for his later Lives of the Poets. See Yale vol. 19, p.255. To Mr. Edward Howard on his Plays was not located in this title.]
- Buckhurst; Dorset; Earl Dorset's Song [Song: Written at Sea, in the First Dutch War, 1665, the Night before an Engagement]; at (quote shifted in 1773 Dict. from sense 1. to sense 9.) cast; flirt; main; vapour [BKG Note: also a 1684 Broadside To all you ladies now at land]
- Dorset [On the Countess of Dorchester, Mistress to King James the Second, written in 1680]; brilliant; larder; pox; stop;
- Dorset [To Mr. Edward Howard on his incomparable, incomprehensible POEM The British Princes]; filbert; founder; racer (same quote as founder); swift (same quote as founder and racer); tierce;
- Dorset [To Mr. Edward Howard on his plays]; duckingstool; edgetool (edged-tools in the text); hasty-pudding; muckender (munkinder in the text);
- Dorset [To Sir Thomas St. Serfe on the printing of his play, called Taruoo's Wiles, acted 1668]; cockney (cockneigh in the text);
- Dorset [Epilogue to Moliere's Tartuffe, translated by Mr. Medburne, spoken by Tartuffe]; get;
- Dorset (no work cited); reprisal (added in 1773 Dict.) [BKG Note: attribution error in the 1773 Dict. - the attribution to Pope in the 1755 Dict. is correct.]
