Authority Cited: Hawkesworth
Author name and dates: John Hawkesworth (c.1715-1773)
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Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Hawksworth cite added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below.]
Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. XVII, 1747, p. 337, Poetical Essays; for July, 1747
Some time previous to Dr. Hawkesworth's publication of his beautiful little Ode On Life, (since published in Pearch's Collection of poems, in four volumes), he carried it down with him to a friend's house in the country to retouch. Dr. Johnson was of this party; and as Hawkesworth and the Doctor lived upon the most intimate terms, the former read it to him for his opinion, "Why, Sir," says Johnson, "I can't well deter- mine on a first hearing, read it again, second thoughts are best." Dr. Hawkesworth complied, after which Dr. Johnson read it himself, approved of it very highly, and returned it. Next morning at breakfast, the subject of the poem being renewed, Dr. Johnson, after again expressing his approbation of it, said he had but one objection to make to it, which was, that he doubted its originality. Hawkesworth, alarmed at this, challenged him to the proof; when the Doctor repeated the whole of the poem, with only the omission of a very few lines; "What do you think now, Hawkey," says the Doctor? "only this," replied the other, "that I shall never repeat any thing I write before you again, for you have a memory that would convict any author of plagiarism in any court of literature in the world."
Author name and dates: John Hawkesworth (c.1715-1773)
BKG Bio-tweet: Self-educated; Parliam. Debates after SJ; 70 Adventurer essays; Ed. of Swift's works, Cook's voyage; SJ cites poem in 4th ed
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Hawksworth cite added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below.]
Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. XVII, 1747, p. 337, Poetical Essays; for July, 1747
- [Life, an Ode]; folly (added in 1773 Dict.) [BKG Note: no author cited in the GMag. issue. See image below. For more on SJ's relationship to Hawkesworth, see J.L. Abbott, "John Hawkesworth: Friend of Samuel Johnson and Editor of Captain Cook's Voyages and of the Gentleman's Magazine," Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Spring, 1970), pp. 339-350, The Johns Hopkins University Press. Sponsor: American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), available on JSTOR. Abbott includes the excerpt below (relating to the Ode SJ quotes in the 1773 Dict.), attributed to William Cooke, from Kearsley's 1785 Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.]
Some time previous to Dr. Hawkesworth's publication of his beautiful little Ode On Life, (since published in Pearch's Collection of poems, in four volumes), he carried it down with him to a friend's house in the country to retouch. Dr. Johnson was of this party; and as Hawkesworth and the Doctor lived upon the most intimate terms, the former read it to him for his opinion, "Why, Sir," says Johnson, "I can't well deter- mine on a first hearing, read it again, second thoughts are best." Dr. Hawkesworth complied, after which Dr. Johnson read it himself, approved of it very highly, and returned it. Next morning at breakfast, the subject of the poem being renewed, Dr. Johnson, after again expressing his approbation of it, said he had but one objection to make to it, which was, that he doubted its originality. Hawkesworth, alarmed at this, challenged him to the proof; when the Doctor repeated the whole of the poem, with only the omission of a very few lines; "What do you think now, Hawkey," says the Doctor? "only this," replied the other, "that I shall never repeat any thing I write before you again, for you have a memory that would convict any author of plagiarism in any court of literature in the world."
- Hawkesworth (no work cited)
