Authority Cited: Harte
Author name and dates: Walter Harte (1709-1774)
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BKG Bio-tweet: Poet, historian; Oxford don; friend of Pope; SJ: companionable, but poetry foppish
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 15 Harte cites added in 1773 Dict. (under F and G only), vol. 1, about 114 Harte cites added in Dict. vol. 2. Per Reddick in The Making of Johnson's Dictionary (116, 204), The Amaranth, 1767, is at the British Library - 11632 e.4, marked for extraction of quotations for the 1773 Dict. All Harte citations sampled are from The Amaranth title. This title is also item II-9 in The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, a Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed. Item 275 in the Catalogue is Harte's life of Gustavas Adolphus, 2 v. 1759. A link to an open-access text of The Amaranth is at: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435018548479&view=1up&seq=9]
Author name and dates: Walter Harte (1709-1774)
PORTRAIT
BKG Bio-tweet: Poet, historian; Oxford don; friend of Pope; SJ: companionable, but poetry foppish
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 15 Harte cites added in 1773 Dict. (under F and G only), vol. 1, about 114 Harte cites added in Dict. vol. 2. Per Reddick in The Making of Johnson's Dictionary (116, 204), The Amaranth, 1767, is at the British Library - 11632 e.4, marked for extraction of quotations for the 1773 Dict. All Harte citations sampled are from The Amaranth title. This title is also item II-9 in The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, a Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed. Item 275 in the Catalogue is Harte's life of Gustavas Adolphus, 2 v. 1759. A link to an open-access text of The Amaranth is at: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435018548479&view=1up&seq=9]
- The Amaranth: or, Religious poems; consisting of fables, visions, emblems, & c.,adorned with copper-plates from the best masters. 1767, London: Printed for Mess. Robinson and Roberts in Pater-noster-Row, and W. Frederick at Bath; former (p.93); ... garden (p.174); ... mortgage (p.78); ... nameless (p.167); ... one, adj. (p.180); one, n.s. (p.189); ... pallid (p.94); ... papilionaceous (p.169, footnote); rage (p.177, range in text, perhaps a transcription error); ... something (2: p.165 ,p.167); ... sour, v.a. (p.84, inexact quote, wealth rather than wrath in text); sour, adj. (p.162, sow'r in text); ... tap (p.77); ... vale (p.80); ... want (p.175); ... yonder (p.176).
- Harte (no work cited); frugal; fugitive; ... give; ... mortify; mourner; ... patience (2); ... shed; ...