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Authority Cited: [Johnson, Samuel] Savage’s Life, London; Rambler, Irene; Vanity of Human Wishes;  Johnson; Comment.[ary] on Pope’s Essay on Man

Author name and dates: Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

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Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: See Self-Quotations and Anonymous Quotations in Johnson's Dictionary, W.K. Wimsatt, M.H. Wimsatt, ELH, Vol.15, No. 1, March 1948, Johns Hopkins University Press (also in JSTOR).  See also Self-Quotations in Johnson's "Dictionary," W.R. Keast, N&Q, Sept. 1955, pp.392-393 and Another Self-Quotation in Johnson's "Dictionary," W.R. Keast, N&Q, June 1956, p.362. (Thanks to R. DeMaria for pointing out the Keast references.)  See also Anthony Lee, "A New Johnson Self-Quotation in the Dictionary," Notes and Queries, Vol. 65, Issue 2,  June 2018.  The self-quotations are most likely from memory.  The text of the following titles can be found in the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson: Commentary, vol. 17; Rambler, vols. 3-5, Life of Savage, vol. 22;  Drury Lane Prologue, Good Natur'd Man Prologue, Irene, London, Vanity of Human Wishes, An Ode, and To Miss ____ on Her Playing...., vol.6.  One possible new SJ citation, for pantomime, is identified in bold below.  See the Anon. page for sources of other Anonymous citations.]

Samuel Johnson self-quotations in the 1755 and 1773 Dictionaries

• Comment.[ary] on Pope’s Ess.[ay] on Man (SJ trans.); consoler (not identified by Wimsatt, identified by Keast; incorrectly attributed to Warburton in the Abstracted Dict. editions.)
• [Drury Lane Prologue]; "Anonymous" citations identified by Wimsatt as from this title: pimp (quote not in 1773 Dict.); scenick.  "Anonymous" citation from this title not identified by Wimsatt or Keast: pantomime (quote not in 1773 Dict.)​
• Irene; disjoint; follow (quote not in the 1773 Dict.); from; idler; important; imposture; intimidate; obscurely (quote not in 1773 Dict.); penitence  (quote not in 1773 Dict.); polish (quote not in 1773 Dict.); proverbial (quote not in 1773 Dict.); spare (quote not in 1773 Dict.); stagnant; stormy (quote not in 1773 Dict.); sultaness; vacant (quote not in 1773 Dict.).  "Anonymous" citations identified by Wimsatt as from the Prologue to Irene: ennoble (quote not in 1773 Dict.); prejudice (quote not in 1773 Dict.).  [BKG Note: the story on which the play is loosely based is found in Knolles' History of the Turks.  Yale Vol. 6, Samuel Johnson Poems, 1964, pp. 109, 281 and The Poems of Samuel Johnson, second edition (revised by J.D. Fleeman), Oxford, 1974 give SJ manuscript citations of pp.338, 343, 344, 433.  The story of Irene appears at p.353.  The pages from which SJ selects Knolles quotations for the 1755 and 1773 Dict. appear not to include the pages containing the story of Irene (with one exception, daly, p.387, of the Knolles cites sampled.)]
• London; dissipate; elegant. "Anonymous" citations identified by Wimsatt as from this title: mimick; prowl (quote not in 1773 Dict.); rest (quote not in 1773 Dict.); terrour; truth (quote not in 1773 Dict.).
• ​Prologue to Good-natured Man; bribe (added in 1773 Dict., a play by Oliver Goldsmith, Prologue by SJ). See Anthony Lee, "A New Johnson Self-Quotation in the Dictionary," Notes and Queries, Vol. 65, Issue 2,  June 2018.  [BKG Note: this is the only self-quotation added in the 1773 Dict. so far identified.]
• Rambler; expiration [#54]; faint [#38]; ground [#96] (quote not in 1773 Dict.; no quote for sense 1.); instillation [#72] (inexact quote, perhaps from memory); medicate [#130](inexact quote; quote not in 1773 Dict.); virility [#115].  "Anonymous" citation identified by Wimsatt as from this title: placability [#110].  "Anonymous" citation from this title not identified by Wimsatt, identified by Keast: poison [#183] (abridged quote; quote not in the 1773 Dict.).
• Savage’s Life; dissipate
• [(Spring) An Ode]; "Anonymous" citation identified by Wimsatt as from this title: vegetation.
• [To Miss _____ on Her Playing on the Harpsicord, in a Room Hung with some Flower-Pieces of Her Own Painting]; modulate (per Wimsatt); strife (quote not in 1773 Dict., cited as Johnson in 1755 Dict.; incorrectly cited as B. Johnson or Ben. Johnson in Abstracted Dict. editions; not identified by Wimsatt, identified by Keast.  Keast also says that the 3rd Dict. edition cites B. Johnson.) [BKG Note: "gives" rather than "makes" in Yale Vol. VI, p.78, text]
• Vanity of Human Wishes; dog; just (quote not in 1773 Dict.); lacerate; lord; march (quote not in 1773 Dict.); relax; transmute (quote not in 1773 Dict.); unconquered (quote not in 1773 Dict., cited as Johnson in 1755 Dict).  "Anonymous" citations identified by Wimsatt as from this title: luxurious; peace (quote not in 1773 Dict.); private (quote not in 1773 Dict.); septennial (quote not in 1773 Dict.).
• Johnson (no work cited); island [BKG Note: Cited as Johnson in the 1755 Dict.  Anthony Lee identifies this cite as a Pope quotation from Essay on Man and indicates that it is similar to a passage in London that also includes island.  The citation is corrected to Pope in the 1765 Dict. 3rd edition.  The quote does not appear in the 1773 Dict.]

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Alphabetical list of SJ self-quotations [BKG Note: A total of 54 SJ self-quotes have been identified.  18 self-quotes in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, two anonymous, four not in 1773 Dict.; 35 self-quotes in 1755 Dict. vol.2, 17 anonymous, two "Johnson," 22 not in 1773 Dict.  These deletions left two senses without an illustrative quote in the 1773 Dict.  So, 14 self-quotes in 1755 vol. 1 and 13 self-quotes in vol. 2 survived to the 1773 and subsequent Dict. editions, and one was added in the 1773 Dict.]

1. bribe, v.a. 1. Prologue to Good-Natured Man (added in 1773 Dict.)
2. consoler, n.s. Comment.[ary] on Pope’s Ess.[ay] on Man
3. disjoint, v.a. 2. Irene
4. dissipate, v.a. 2. Savage’s Life
5. dissipate, v.a. 3. London
6. dog, v.a. Vanity of Human Wishes
7. elegant, adj. 1. London
8. ennoble, v.a. 3. Anon. [Irene, Prologue] (quote not in 1773 Dict.)
9. expiration, n.s. 2. Rambler
10. faint, adj. 4. Rambler
11. follow, v.a. 2. Irene (quote not in 1773 Dict.)
12. from, prep. 3. Irene
13. ground, v.a. 1. Rambler (quote not in 1773 Dict.; no quote for sense 1.)
14. idler, n.s. Irene
15. important, adj. 1. Irene
16. imposture, n.s. Irene
    
17. instillation, n.s. Rambler
18. intimidate, v.a. Irene
19. just, adj. 11. Vanity of Human Wishes (quote not in 1773 Dict.)
20. lacerate, v.a. Vanity of Human Wishes
21. lord, n.s.1. Vanity of Human Wishes
22. luxurious, adj. 2. Anon. [Vanity of Human Wishes]
23. march, n.s. 1. Vanity of Human Wishes (quote not in 1773 Dict.)
24. medicate, v.a. Rambler (quote not in 1773 Dict.)
25. mimick, n.s. 2. Anon. [London]
26. modulate, v.a. Anon. [To Miss _____ on Her Playing on the Harpsicord, in a Room Hung with some Flower-Pieces of Her Own Painting]
27. obscurely, adv. Irene (quote not in 1773 Dict.)
28. pantomime, n.s. 2. Anon. [Drury Lane Prologue] (quote not in 1773 Dict.)
29. peace, n.s. 1. Anon. [Vanity of Human Wishes] (quote not in 1773 Dict.)
30. penitence, n.s. Irene (quote not in 1773 Dict.)
31. pimp, v.a. Anonymous [Drury Lane Prologue] (quote not in 1773 Dict.)
32. placableness, n.s. Anonymous [Rambler]
33. poison, v.a. 1. Anonymous [Rambler] (quote not in 1773 Dict.)
34. polish, v.a. 2. Irene (quote not in 1773 Dict.)
35. prejudice, v.a. 1. Anonym. [Irene, Prologue] (quote not in 1773 Dict.)
36. private, adj. 1. Anon. [Vanity of Human Wishes] (quote not in 1773 Dict.)
37. proverbial, adj. 1. Irene (quote not in 1773 Dict.)
38. prowl, v.n. Anon. [London] (quote not in 1773 Dict.)
39. relax, v.a. 3. Vanity of Human Wishes
40. rest, n.s. 4. Anonym. [London] (quote not in 1773 Dict.)
41. scenick, adj. Anonym. [Drury Lane Prologue]
42. septennial, adj. 2. Anonym. [Vanity of Human Wishes] (quote not in 1773 Dict.)
43. spare, v.a. 5. Irene (quote not in 1773 Dict.)
44. stagnant, adj. Irene
45. stormy, adj. 2. Irene (quote not in 1773 Dict.; no quote for sense 2.)
46. strife, n.s. 2. Johnson [To Miss _____ on Her Playing on the Harpsicord, in a Room Hung with some Flower-Pieces of Her Own Painting] (quote not in 1773 Dict.)
47. sultaness, n.s. Irene
48. terrour, n.s. 3. Anonym. [London]
49. transmute, v.n. Vanity of Human Wishes (quote not in 1773 Dict.)
50. truth, n.s. 2 Anonymous [London] (quote not in 1773 Dict.)
51. unconquered, adj. 2. Johnson [Vanity of Human Wishes] (quote not in 1773 Dict.)
52. vacant, adj. 5. Irene (quote not in 1773 Dict.)
53. vegetation, n.s. 1. Anonymous [(Spring) An Ode]
54. virility, n.s.1. Rambler