Authority Cited: Dryden; Poem to Roscommon
Author name and dates: John Dryden (1631-1700)
BKG Bio-tweet: Poet, dramatist, critic; SJ “Life”: thought naturally and expressed forcibly; he found our poetry brick, and left it marble
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 5,300 total Dryden cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1; about 6,300 Dryden cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2; a large number of Dryden citations do not indicate the work. Reddick, in The Making of Johnson's Dictionary, p.122, indicates that 33 Dryden cites were added in vol. 2 of the 1773 Dict. Titles below in brackets indicate that the title is not in the Dict. Dryden citation. Lot 517 in the Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, a Facsimilie Edition, Fleeman ed., is [octavo &c.] 21. Dryden's poems, &c. Greene, in Samuel Johnson's Library, An Annotated Guide, says "Perhaps Vols. 13-19 of Johnson's own collection [Lives of the Poets], 1779 ?" However, I think a number of the octavo and 12mo titles below are also candidates for this sale lot.]
Ovid's epistles, translated by Several Hands, 1680 London: Printed for Jacob Tonson at the sign of the Judge's Head in Chancery Lane near Fleet-Street; Dryden: Preface, Ganace to Macareus, Helen to Paris, Dido to Aenaeus [1680, 1681, 1683 same TOC; 1688, 1693 no TOC; 6th ed. not found; 1705 7th ed. same TOC for Dryden]
Sylvæ, or, The second part of Poetical miscellanies (John Dryden and others), 1685 London : Printed for Jacob Tonson ... translations of various books of Virgil's Aeneid, Lucretius, Thocritus' Idyllium, Horace; OR Original poems and translations, by John Dryden, Esq; now first collected and publish'd together, in two volumes. 1743, London : printed for J. and R. Tonson in the Strand, [in 12mo], vol.2.
Examen poeticum being the third part of miscellany poems containing variety of new translations of the ancient poets, together with many original copies by the most eminent hands. 1693, London: Printed by R.E. for Jacob Tonson; OR Original poems and translations, by John Dryden, Esq; now first collected and publish'd together, in two volumes. 1743, London : printed for J. and R. Tonson in the Strand, [in 12mo], v.1: 341pp., v.2: 339pp.
[Dramatic Works] The works of Mr. John Dryden 1691 London : Printed and are to be sold by Jacob Tonson ... ; 1693 Works in 4 vol. (vol. 1-3 are dramatic works) : same contents as 1691; 1694 Works adds Cleomenes and Mac-Flecnoe in Vol.4. OR 1701 Comedies & Tragedies in 2 vol. (of the 4 vol. Works), [Love Triumphant added in the 1701 Works] OR 1717, 1725, 1735 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 (12mo) [BKG Note: One of these six-volume editions is likely the source of the Dryden dramatic works citations, as SJ quotes Congreve's Dedication to Dryden from this work under touch. Also, per Macdonald in John Dryden, a bibliography of early editions and of Drydeniana, the first appearance in a Collected Edition of the Defense of an Essay on Dramatic Poetry is the six volume Congreve publication. After a moderately extensive sampling of "Dryden" citations, no citations have yet been identified for about a dozen titles in this publication. My thought is that after marking from one to four titles in each volume, the volume was passed to a transcriber for the copying of the marked quotations.]
The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis [Juvenal] translated in to English Verse by Mr. Dryden and several other eminent hands, together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus, made English by Mr. Dryden, with explanatory notes at the end of each Satire, to which is prefixed a discourse concerning the Original and Progress of Satire, Dedicated to the Right Honorable Charles, Earl of Dorset &c. By Mr. Dryden. 1693, London: Printed for Jacob Tonson at the Judges-Head in Chancery-Lane near Fleetstreet. 5th edition 1723. [BKG Note: one satire (XIV) translated by J. Dryden, jun, is quoted under look]
De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, by C. A. Du Fresnoy, With Remarks. Translated into English, together with an Original Preface Containing a Parallel betwixt Painting and Poetry. By Mr. Dryden. (Per W. K. Wimsatt, Jr., Studies in Philology, Vol. 48, No. 1 (Jan., 1951), pp. 26-39 : The first edition, London, 1695, Johnson's quotations under contiguous, unitedly, and sweeten 6 are found only in this edition, pp. 47, 51, 75. Cf. pp. 49, 53, 77 of The Art of Painting, the Second Edition, London, 1716. Johnson's quotation under sure 4 is a curiously garbled version of what appears alike on p. xx of the first edition and p. xxii of the second.);
The works of Virgil containing his Pastorals, Georgics and Aeneis, Translated into English Verse, by Mr. Dryden: adorn'd with a hundred sculptures. 1697, London: Printed for Jacob Tonson at the Judges-Head in Fleetstreet near the Inner-Temple-Gate. 1698 second edition, 1709 edition in 3 vol. [BKG Note: the following are grouped by citation titles in the Dict. ; these titles are also in Vol. 4 of the 1701 folio Works of Dryden]
Fables ancient and modern translated into verse from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer, with orginal poems, by Mr. Dryden. 1700 [folio], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, within Gray's Inn Gate next Gray's Inn Lane; 1713 [octavo]. 1721, 1734, 1745 [BKG Note: the sampled headwords following are grouped by citation titles in the Dict. No London publication of collected poems prior to 1755 was identified that includes the titles below.]
Original poems and translations, by John Dryden, Esq; now first collected and publish'd together, in two volumes. 1743, London : printed for J. and R. Tonson in the Strand, [in 12mo], v.1: 341pp., v.2: 339pp. [BKG Note: the 1743 Original poems and translations appears to be a possible source for the smaller poems. This publication does not include the contents of the Fables, the Dramatic Works, translations of DuFresnoy, Virgil (Aeneid, Georgics, Pastorals), or the Satires (Juvenal, Persius). See below for other possible SJ sources for the Poem quotations.]
Other Dryden collections from which SJ may have worked for poem quotations:
Author name and dates: John Dryden (1631-1700)
BKG Bio-tweet: Poet, dramatist, critic; SJ “Life”: thought naturally and expressed forcibly; he found our poetry brick, and left it marble
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 5,300 total Dryden cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1; about 6,300 Dryden cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2; a large number of Dryden citations do not indicate the work. Reddick, in The Making of Johnson's Dictionary, p.122, indicates that 33 Dryden cites were added in vol. 2 of the 1773 Dict. Titles below in brackets indicate that the title is not in the Dict. Dryden citation. Lot 517 in the Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, a Facsimilie Edition, Fleeman ed., is [octavo &c.] 21. Dryden's poems, &c. Greene, in Samuel Johnson's Library, An Annotated Guide, says "Perhaps Vols. 13-19 of Johnson's own collection [Lives of the Poets], 1779 ?" However, I think a number of the octavo and 12mo titles below are also candidates for this sale lot.]
Ovid's epistles, translated by Several Hands, 1680 London: Printed for Jacob Tonson at the sign of the Judge's Head in Chancery Lane near Fleet-Street; Dryden: Preface, Ganace to Macareus, Helen to Paris, Dido to Aenaeus [1680, 1681, 1683 same TOC; 1688, 1693 no TOC; 6th ed. not found; 1705 7th ed. same TOC for Dryden]
- Preface; ascribe; back; barbarity; luxuriant; out; place; unreasonable;
- [Helen to Paris]; admiration
Sylvæ, or, The second part of Poetical miscellanies (John Dryden and others), 1685 London : Printed for Jacob Tonson ... translations of various books of Virgil's Aeneid, Lucretius, Thocritus' Idyllium, Horace; OR Original poems and translations, by John Dryden, Esq; now first collected and publish'd together, in two volumes. 1743, London : printed for J. and R. Tonson in the Strand, [in 12mo], vol.2.
- [Preface Concerning Mr. Dryden's Translations]; adjective; argumentation ; author ; bespeak; boyish; out
- Theocritus; kiss; path; patient; set; wag;
- Lucretius; goad; last; lovesome; queans; supinely
- Horace; as; avarice; bear; fear; fence; land; lash; limp; parch; worst;
Examen poeticum being the third part of miscellany poems containing variety of new translations of the ancient poets, together with many original copies by the most eminent hands. 1693, London: Printed by R.E. for Jacob Tonson; OR Original poems and translations, by John Dryden, Esq; now first collected and publish'd together, in two volumes. 1743, London : printed for J. and R. Tonson in the Strand, [in 12mo], v.1: 341pp., v.2: 339pp.
- Ovid [First Book of Metamorphoses]; ado; adore; arrive; balmy; cornelian [The golden Age]; knee [Trans. of Syrinx]; metamorphose; put [Giant's War];
[Dramatic Works] The works of Mr. John Dryden 1691 London : Printed and are to be sold by Jacob Tonson ... ; 1693 Works in 4 vol. (vol. 1-3 are dramatic works) : same contents as 1691; 1694 Works adds Cleomenes and Mac-Flecnoe in Vol.4. OR 1701 Comedies & Tragedies in 2 vol. (of the 4 vol. Works), [Love Triumphant added in the 1701 Works] OR 1717, 1725, 1735 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 (12mo) [BKG Note: One of these six-volume editions is likely the source of the Dryden dramatic works citations, as SJ quotes Congreve's Dedication to Dryden from this work under touch. Also, per Macdonald in John Dryden, a bibliography of early editions and of Drydeniana, the first appearance in a Collected Edition of the Defense of an Essay on Dramatic Poetry is the six volume Congreve publication. After a moderately extensive sampling of "Dryden" citations, no citations have yet been identified for about a dozen titles in this publication. My thought is that after marking from one to four titles in each volume, the volume was passed to a transcriber for the copying of the marked quotations.]
- [v.1] Essay on [of] Dramatic Poetry, Dramatic Poetry#; accomodate; air; animadvert; braggadocio; by-concernment; chess-player; come; coordination; counterturn; courtly; dearth; full; idiom; long; pie; verisimilitude/verisimility;
- [v.1] Defence of Dramatick Poetry#; denomination;
- [v.5] Albion and Albnus#; before; lo; opera; pilaster [Frontispiece]; restoration; rosy;
- [v.4] All for Love & Preface & Dedication#; birthday; little; meteor; shallow; tread;
- [v.3] [Amboyna] Dedication to Lord Clifford; flourish; want;
- [v.4] Aureng-Zebe & Prologue & Dedication#; lazar; lengthen; lowliness; owe; own;
- [v.6] Cleomenes & Preface & Life & Epilogue#; bloodily; cram; edge; embargo; keep; linger; look; mad; overthwart; rabble; solicitress [Dedication];
- [v.3] Conquest of Grenada & Prologue#; acquit; act; at; by; then;
- [v.6] Don Sebastian & Preface & Dedication#; condition; dalliance; knock; lag; lay; modestly; queasy;
- [v.1] Indian Emperor & Preface#; blow; crown; keep; lust; nightdew; own; set; woo;
- [v.6] King Arthur & Preface & Dedication#; bag; defraud; gross; harvest-home; kind [Prologue]; length; manuscript; outvie;
- [v.4] Oedipus, Dryden and Lee’s Oedipus, Dryden's Oedipus#; burning-glass; commodious; essay; hunch; leak; purveyor; resolution;
- [v.5] Spanish Friar [Fryar] & Preface & Dedication#; blunderbuss; covert; damnation; lameness; leap; loose; out; owing; phrase; put [Dedication to Lord Haughton]; queen; querpo;
- [v.4] State of Innocence & Dedication [To Her Royal Highness the Dutchess] & Preface#; bulrush; business; lively; mollify; outshine; plod; On Heroick Poetry & Preface; admit; On Heroick Plays (check); point; practicable
- [v.2] Tyrannick Love & Preface#; accuse; argument; philosopher; remit; rivet;
The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis [Juvenal] translated in to English Verse by Mr. Dryden and several other eminent hands, together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus, made English by Mr. Dryden, with explanatory notes at the end of each Satire, to which is prefixed a discourse concerning the Original and Progress of Satire, Dedicated to the Right Honorable Charles, Earl of Dorset &c. By Mr. Dryden. 1693, London: Printed for Jacob Tonson at the Judges-Head in Chancery-Lane near Fleetstreet. 5th edition 1723. [BKG Note: one satire (XIV) translated by J. Dryden, jun, is quoted under look]
- Essay on Satires; elf; knavery;
- Juvenal & Preface & Dedication, Satires [of Juvenal] Preface; bail; bar; boardwages; know [Dedication]; lackey; largess; laudably; out; outgive; philosophick; pitiful; quondam; sewer [BKG Note: no author attribution for the sewer quote in either the1755 Dict. or the 1773 Dict. "The cook and sewer, each his talent tries,/In various figures scenes of dishes rise." Thanks to Beth Rapp Young for the discovery!]; world [Dedication];
- Persius & Notes; bristle; kemb; knife; lash; letter; liking; province; quantity; salad; terse; worth;
De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, by C. A. Du Fresnoy, With Remarks. Translated into English, together with an Original Preface Containing a Parallel betwixt Painting and Poetry. By Mr. Dryden. (Per W. K. Wimsatt, Jr., Studies in Philology, Vol. 48, No. 1 (Jan., 1951), pp. 26-39 : The first edition, London, 1695, Johnson's quotations under contiguous, unitedly, and sweeten 6 are found only in this edition, pp. 47, 51, 75. Cf. pp. 49, 53, 77 of The Art of Painting, the Second Edition, London, 1716. Johnson's quotation under sure 4 is a curiously garbled version of what appears alike on p. xx of the first edition and p. xxii of the second.);
- Du Fresnoy & Preface; bawd; humour; knot [Preface]; layman
The works of Virgil containing his Pastorals, Georgics and Aeneis, Translated into English Verse, by Mr. Dryden: adorn'd with a hundred sculptures. 1697, London: Printed for Jacob Tonson at the Judges-Head in Fleetstreet near the Inner-Temple-Gate. 1698 second edition, 1709 edition in 3 vol. [BKG Note: the following are grouped by citation titles in the Dict. ; these titles are also in Vol. 4 of the 1701 folio Works of Dryden]
- Virgil & Dedication; booty; labour; lay; lice; magazine; protect
- Dedication [to the Aeneis]; lubberly
- Aeneis, Aeneid & Preface & Dedication; acquit [Postscript]; army; around; bountiful [Postscript]; form; labour; lubberly; make; metaphor
- Georgics [&Dedication]; bolt; crumble; harmful; harrow; lance; leap; litigious; on; prick; quench; quicken; reeden
- Pastorals & Dedication, Virgil's Pastorals Dedication; address; both; ease; gather; knotted; knotty; pine; renew
- Selenis [Virgil's Pastorals, VI]; blindly; bud; deep;
Fables ancient and modern translated into verse from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer, with orginal poems, by Mr. Dryden. 1700 [folio], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, within Gray's Inn Gate next Gray's Inn Lane; 1713 [octavo]. 1721, 1734, 1745 [BKG Note: the sampled headwords following are grouped by citation titles in the Dict. No London publication of collected poems prior to 1755 was identified that includes the titles below.]
- Fables & Preface & Dedication*; abreast; athletick; mankiller; menace; partlet; pitched; their; worthily;
- To her Grace the [Duchess] Dutchess of Ormond*; bard; lend;
- Alexander’s Feast [An Ode in Honour of St. Cecilia]*; assume; at; awake; divide; enthusiast; frame; hiss; inventress; melt; mother; store; welter;
- Baucis and Philemon, Ovid*; cot; kettle; knock; lard; pair(?); rare(?); seether; sprout(?); stuff(?); trivet(?);
- Boccaccio, Boccace (Sigismonda; Theodore & Hon.?; Simon & Ipheg.?)*; knock; level; methodise;
- Ceyx and Alcyone*; a; bare; boxen; hush; report; sidelong; stretch; yawn;
- Cymon and Iphigenia*; broad; fan; once; quarterstaff; raven;
- [Epistle to John Driden, of Chesterton];* bark; blemish; ourselves; physick; recipe;
- Flower and Leaf*; attire; branch; frozen; incline; lay; quality; quire; songster;
- Good Parson, Parson*; diffuse; rebuke; rest; sermon;
- Iliad/Homer (First Book)*; affect; askaunt; assessor; deck; emerge; equivalent; face; fillet; foreknew; heat; hop; keep; lard; little; mast; much; skewer; [BKG Note: almost all of the Dryden Homer and Illiad citations refer to the First Book of the Iliad, included in the Fables]
- Knight’s Tale [Palamon and Arcite]*; act; award; bent; blameless; blow; forthright; have; knightly; lay; link; quick;
- [Meleager and Atalanta]; leisure
- [The Monument of a Fair Maiden Lady who Died at Bath]; wondrous
- Nun’s (Priest) Tale*; boy; bread; debonair; duck; fork; hight; knave; load; peer; purge; situate; yore;
- [Pygmalion and the Statue]; zone;
- [Pythagorean Philosophy, Ovid's M. Book XV]*; boatman/boatsman; senior;
- Sigismonda and Guiscardo*; attempt; avow; behind; beseems; dirge; draw; first(?); knock; quilted; world;
- [Speeches of Ajax and Ulysses, Ovid M. Book XIII]*; but; push;
- Theodore And Honoria*; backward; cast; fiend; lance; minister; outward; pierce; pursuit; put; renew; secure;
- Wife of Bath*; bid; bittour; block; brothel; kerchief; nobleman;
Original poems and translations, by John Dryden, Esq; now first collected and publish'd together, in two volumes. 1743, London : printed for J. and R. Tonson in the Strand, [in 12mo], v.1: 341pp., v.2: 339pp. [BKG Note: the 1743 Original poems and translations appears to be a possible source for the smaller poems. This publication does not include the contents of the Fables, the Dramatic Works, translations of DuFresnoy, Virgil (Aeneid, Georgics, Pastorals), or the Satires (Juvenal, Persius). See below for other possible SJ sources for the Poem quotations.]
- Absalom and Achitophel & Preface; addle-pated; analogy; apology; composure; hang(?); pick;
- [Absalom and Achitophel, The Second Part]; botch;
- Annus Mirabilis & Preface; absolutely; adorn; asleep; banker; brink; blunt; bore; female; kaw; logical; nobless; owner; pilot; quarry; quatrain; quickness; repose; securely; tender;
- Austraea Redux Astraea redux A poem on the happy restoration & return of His sacred Majesty Charles the Second. By John Driden. , London : printed by J.M. for Henry Herringman, and are to be sold at his shop, at the Blew-Anchor, in the lower walk of the New-Exchange, 1660. (ll. 3-4, quoted for worser per Yale Vol. 18, p.54); authorize; betake; hurry; receipt; some;
- Dedalus; worst;
- [Epistle to her Royal Highness the Duchess, Victory over the Holanders 1665]; bribe; [BKG Note: this title is not in TOC of the 1701 Works, vol. 3, however, it was published with Annus Mirabilis in 1667, and appears in in the 1743 Original Poems and Translations, vol. 1, p.55]
- Epistles, Dedication; artick [To Sir George Etherege]; assertor [To Dr. Charleton]; bare (prose quote: from the Dedication to Cleomenes, to Lord Rochester, 1692); base [To Mr. Congreve]; beam [To the Duchess of York]; boom [To Mr. Lee]; buffoonery [To Mr. Southerne]' degree [To Sir George Etherege]; seen [To Dr. Charleton];
- [Eleanora]; attendant; babe; bounteous; humility; testimony [Preface];
- [Elegy on the death of Amyntas]; bud [BKG Note: per Macdonald in John Dryden, a bibliography of early editions and of Drydeniana, this poem was published first in the Fifth Miscellany in 1704]
- [Elegy, To the Memory of Mr. Oldham]; quickness
- [Epitaph/Elegy, On Mrs Maragret Paston]; piece; [BKG Note: not found in 1743 Original Poems and Translations; per Macdonald in Bibliography, On Mrs. Margaret Paston was first printed in the Lintot Miscellaneous Poems of 1712. The SJ quote reads vanished vs ravished in the text, so may be from memory.]
- [Epitaph on the Lady Whitmore]; at
- [Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell]; add; blend;
- Hind and Panther & Preface; abate; batten; equivocate; fewness; knead; lenten; quarry; trim;
- [Homer/Iliad]; if [sixth Book]; transfix [sixth Book]; [BKG Note: only the First Book in Fables]
- Mac-Flecknoe; acrostick; bargain; base; buskin; kilderkin; purloin; seduce(?);
- Medal & Dedication: bag; club; fly; grudge; idol; stay; Epistle to the Whigs [opening dedication of The Medal]; aspersion; bay;
- [Panegyrick on Coronation of K. Charles II, 1660]; quench; sect;
- [Pious Memory of Mrs. Anne Killigrew]; adopt; assize; brook; ken;
- Poem to Roscommon [Epistle the Fifth]; barbarity; essay
- [Prologue to Caesar Borgia]; qualmish;
- [Prologue to Circe]; bloat; blossom;
- [Prologue to the Prophetess]; put
- Religio Laici & Dedication; carrier; charity; out; philosophizing [Preface]; unattainable
- St. Cecilia [A Song for St. Cecelia's Day, 1687] assume (should be Alexander's Feast, an Ode in Honour of St. Cecilia); at (should be Alexander's Feast, an Ode in Honour of St. Cecilia); awake (should be Alexander's Feast, an Ode in Honour of St. Cecilia); divide (should be Alexander's Feast, an Ode in Honour of St. Cecilia); sequacious; uproot; welter (should be Alexander's Feast, an Ode in Honour of St. Cecilia);
- [Satire upon the Dutch]; boor; pickle;
- Songs; rook;
- [Threnodia Augustalis]; arm; thankful; wrinkle; yearly;
- [To My Lord Chancellor (Clarendon/Hyde), 1662]; behind;
- Dryden (no Dryden work identified); belie; blank; box [Prologue to the Maid's Tragedy: Waller?]; knock [should be Pope, Im. of Horace]; labourer; lace;
Other Dryden collections from which SJ may have worked for poem quotations:
- Miscellany poems containing a new translation of Virgills eclogues, Ovid's love elegies, odes of Horace, and other authors : with several original poems. [John Dryden and others,] 1684 London : Printed for Jacob Tonson ... Mac Flecknoe, Absalom, Medal, Ovid (2nd book, 19th elegy), Religio Laici, various Prologues and Epilogues, Virgil 4th Ecologue,
- Sylvæ, or, The second part of Poetical miscellanies (John Dryden and others), 1685 London : Printed for Jacob Tonson ... translations of various books of Virgil's Aeneid, Lucretius, Thocritus' Idyllium, Horace,
- Miscellany poems, in two parts. : Containing new translations of [brace] Virgil's Eclogues, Ovid's Love-elegies, several parts of [brace] Virgil's Æneids, Lucretius, Theocritus, Horace, &c. : With several original poems, never before printed. (John Dryden and others), 1688 London, : Printed for Thomas Chapman at the Chirugions-Arms over-against the Mews near Charing-Cross. Contnts appear the same as the two previous separate editions, and is the most likely of the early editions for SJ to have worked from for translations (if SJ used these rather than the 1701 Works).
- 1701 Poems (vol. 3 of the 4 vol Works; possible source of many poems; "Fables" included in vol. 3 are not those in the 1700 Fables publication; Annus Mirabilis not included in vol. 3)
- 1701 Translations (vol. 4 of the 4 vol Works; possible source of translations)