Authority Cited: Newton [Thomas]
Author name and dates: Thomas Newton (1704-1782)
BKG Bio-tweet: Cambridge Fellow; cleric; biblical scholar; author; annotated ed. of Paradise Lost with Milton Life; later: Milton’s Works
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one [T.] Newton cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, two cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. Two [T.] Newton cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below.]
Author name and dates: Thomas Newton (1704-1782)
BKG Bio-tweet: Cambridge Fellow; cleric; biblical scholar; author; annotated ed. of Paradise Lost with Milton Life; later: Milton’s Works
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one [T.] Newton cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, two cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. Two [T.] Newton cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below.]
- Dedication to Milton (Paradise Lost); Paradise lost : a poem, in twelve books. The author John Milton. A new edition, with notes of various authors, by Thomas Newton, D.D., London, 1749, Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper in the Strand; (in the Dedication); adaptness (added in 1773 Dict.) [BKG Note: SJ notes that he had found the word no where else, and the OED credits Bp. Newton with the first use.]; (in the Dedication) convivial (added in 1773 Dict.); flatter [BKG Note: the quote under flatter "I scorn to flatter you or any man" is inexact ("your Lordship," rather than "you" in the text), but gives added pungency to the SJ comment on T. Newton recorded under the year 1784 in Boswell's Life of Johnson: "I believe he was a gross flatterer."]; (in the Preface) sewer (etym.); urim [definition from Newton's notes on Milton]