Authority Cited: Pearce
Author name and dates: Zachary Pearce (1690-1774)
BKG Bio-tweet: Cambridge, Royal Society Fellow; Bp. of Rochester; defended Paradise Lost; assisted Newton Chronology; supplied etym. to SJ
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Pearce citation in 1755 Dict. vol. 2; no additional Pearce citations identified in 1773 Dict. Pearce is also possibly the Unknown Correspondent (a) and/or the Unknown Correspondent (b). Yale vol. 18, p.111, n.1 quotes Boswell: "... the only aid which he [Johnson] received was a paper containing twenty etymologies, sent to him by a person then unknown, who he was later informed was Dr. Pearce, Bishop of Rochester." Item #431 in the Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library is Derby's Commentary on the evangelists, 2v. 1777 .... Donald Greene, in Samuel Johnson's Library, an Annotated Guide, says: "A Commentary, with notes, on the Four Evangelists and the Acts of the Apostles [by Pearce, posthumous] was edited by the bishop's chaplain, John Derby, and includes a life of Pearce, said to be "written by himself," but largely by Johnson who also contributed a fine dedication to King George III." Per R. DeMaria, this Dedication appears in the recently issued Yale vol. 20.]
Author name and dates: Zachary Pearce (1690-1774)
BKG Bio-tweet: Cambridge, Royal Society Fellow; Bp. of Rochester; defended Paradise Lost; assisted Newton Chronology; supplied etym. to SJ
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Pearce citation in 1755 Dict. vol. 2; no additional Pearce citations identified in 1773 Dict. Pearce is also possibly the Unknown Correspondent (a) and/or the Unknown Correspondent (b). Yale vol. 18, p.111, n.1 quotes Boswell: "... the only aid which he [Johnson] received was a paper containing twenty etymologies, sent to him by a person then unknown, who he was later informed was Dr. Pearce, Bishop of Rochester." Item #431 in the Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library is Derby's Commentary on the evangelists, 2v. 1777 .... Donald Greene, in Samuel Johnson's Library, an Annotated Guide, says: "A Commentary, with notes, on the Four Evangelists and the Acts of the Apostles [by Pearce, posthumous] was edited by the bishop's chaplain, John Derby, and includes a life of Pearce, said to be "written by himself," but largely by Johnson who also contributed a fine dedication to King George III." Per R. DeMaria, this Dedication appears in the recently issued Yale vol. 20.]
- Pearce on Milton. A review of the text of the twelve books of Milton's Paradise lost: in which the chief of Dr. Bentley's emendations [of 1732] are consider'd: And several other Emendations and Observations are offer'd to the Public. [published anonymously] 1733, London: printed for John Shuckburgh, at the Sun, near the Inner-Temple-Gate in Fleetstreet; realty (p.199) [BKG Note: SJ quotes this text, and attributes it to Pearce, for the definition of realty.]