Authority Cited: Pope
Author name and dates: Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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Categories (list of works cited – preliminary); [BKG Note: about 2040 Pope cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 2200 Pope cites in vol. 2. Reddick, in The Making of Johnson's Dictionary, indicates that 80 Pope cites were added in vol. 2 of the 1773 Dict. My survey indicates about 39 Pope cites were added in vol. 1 of the 1773 Dict. A sample of the 1773 Dict. added headword cites are indicated in bold italic below. Most of the quotes from the following works are from various editions of The works of Alexander Pope, Esq, London, published 1736 to 1739. In The Younger Johnson's Texts of Pope, The Review of English Studies, 1 May 1985, Vol.36, pp.180-198, Treadwell Ruml concludes that for most of the Dict. quotations of early Alexander Pope works "... Johnson used the third (1720) or, more probably, the fourth (1722) edition of Lintot's Miscellany." (See Betterton for other possible quotes from the Miscellanies.) In the RES article, Ruml points to the Motte 1733 Miscellanies for a number of Pope quotations. Ruml also provides extensive information on the Works quotation sources that are cited only as "Pope." In the Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, Fleeman ed., item 271 is 5. volumes of Pope's Works.] The non-italicized titles below are listed in the Freed 1939 Dissertation.
Miscellaneous poems and translations : by several hands. Particularly, I. Windsor-Forest ... By Mr. Pope, the 4th edition, 1722 London : Printed for Bernard Lintot; Ruml (see citation above) proposes the following Pope productions as SJ's source for the 1755 Dict. (The words cited are per Ruml, unless noted otherwise.)
Miscellanies; [published by Benjamin Motte, likely the 1733 edition] [BKG Note: other titles in the Miscellanies for which the author was not indicated in the 1733 edition are correctly attributed to Pope in the Dict.; SJ may have known these from editions of Pope's Works.]
Dunciad; & Advertisement, Introduction & Notes; acerbity; acumen; anonymous; associate; antithesis; blanket; console; curtain; hawker; nerveless; pinion; over; rake [Pope's Works, 1735 or 1736 octavo ed.] [BKG Note: the personages ("dunces") of the Dunciad can be found at: https://dunciadworld.weebly.com/personages-of-the-dunciad.html.]
1736 Works
Iliad of Homer & Preface & Notes [edition cited is uncertain]; ablution; add in the Dict. 4th ed. is from the 1736 4th Iliad edition or later; Essay on Homer; Vol. I; Essay on Homer’s Battels; Vol. II
Imitations of Horace; The works of Alexander Pope, Esq; Vol. II. Part II. Containing imitations of Horace and Dr. Donne; [1738 octavo edition]: a; cit; nameless; relish; stocking; weasel; wed; [1740 or 1743 edition]: kitchen; ruffle; nepenthe; poison; worship; [To Augustus]: wanderer; white
1739 Works, Vol. II (or 1741 or 1743 reprint);
Martinus Scriblerus [by Arbuthnot and Pope] in The works of Alexander Pope, Esq; Vol. III. Part II. Containing the Dunciad, Book IV. And the memoirs of Scriblerus. Never before printed.. 1742, London: printed for R. Dodsley, and sold by T. Cooper; abductor;
Letters & Preface: 1739 Works, Vol. V (or 1741 or 1743 reprint): The works of Alexander Pope, Esq; Vol. V. Containing an authentic edition of his letters. 1739, London: printed for T. Cooper in Pater-Noster-Row. [BKG Note: this title appears to be the earliest containing the Parnelle [Parnel] to Pope letter cited by SJ in the 1755 Dict. under fall. See the BKG working notes on all 1755 Dict. letter sources at the bottom of this page.]
Edition not yet determined (some titles may be encompassed by the titles above):
[BKG Working Notes for Citations in the 1755 Dict. of Letters to and from Pope plus other Letters citations. About 225 citations identified as from letters. The Pope-related letters appear to be from the 1739 or later edition of Pope's Works.]
Author name and dates: Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
BKG Bio-tweet: Precocious, unwell, self-educated poet; highly poetical translations of Homer; literary warfare with poets less talented
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary); [BKG Note: about 2040 Pope cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 2200 Pope cites in vol. 2. Reddick, in The Making of Johnson's Dictionary, indicates that 80 Pope cites were added in vol. 2 of the 1773 Dict. My survey indicates about 39 Pope cites were added in vol. 1 of the 1773 Dict. A sample of the 1773 Dict. added headword cites are indicated in bold italic below. Most of the quotes from the following works are from various editions of The works of Alexander Pope, Esq, London, published 1736 to 1739. In The Younger Johnson's Texts of Pope, The Review of English Studies, 1 May 1985, Vol.36, pp.180-198, Treadwell Ruml concludes that for most of the Dict. quotations of early Alexander Pope works "... Johnson used the third (1720) or, more probably, the fourth (1722) edition of Lintot's Miscellany." (See Betterton for other possible quotes from the Miscellanies.) In the RES article, Ruml points to the Motte 1733 Miscellanies for a number of Pope quotations. Ruml also provides extensive information on the Works quotation sources that are cited only as "Pope." In the Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, Fleeman ed., item 271 is 5. volumes of Pope's Works.] The non-italicized titles below are listed in the Freed 1939 Dissertation.
Miscellaneous poems and translations : by several hands. Particularly, I. Windsor-Forest ... By Mr. Pope, the 4th edition, 1722 London : Printed for Bernard Lintot; Ruml (see citation above) proposes the following Pope productions as SJ's source for the 1755 Dict. (The words cited are per Ruml, unless noted otherwise.)
- An Essay on Criticism: abject; assail; handmaid; itch; wit; (stem and torrent quotes from II. 693-96, per Yale Vol. 18, p. 296). [BKG Note: Prof. Beth Rapp Young, U. of Central Florida, points out that Johnson quotes Pope in his entry for candid (both 1755 and 1773): "A candid judge will read each piece of wit, With the same spirit that its author writ." However, Pope's Essay on Criticism says "A perfect judge . . ." and Johnson uses this same quotation with "perfect" in entries for spirit and judge. Young has found no Pope edition with candid, but found wording with candid in Benjamin Martin's compilation Bibliotheca Technologica: or, a Philological Library of Literary Arts and Sciences, 1737, London: Printed by S. Idle for John Noon, at the White Hart, near Mercers Chapel, in Cheapside. Martin's source has not been traced.]
- Dialogues (To Mr. Addison, Occasioned by his Dialogue on Medals); clear; nightfall; subject
- Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady Eloisa to Abelard; absolve;
- Epilogue to Jane Shore; abortion [from the Lintot Micellanious Poems and Translations, or from an edition of Rowe's Plays]
- Epistle to Chales Jervas; alas
- Epistle to Miss Blount, with the Works of Voiture; gay
- Epitaph Intended for Mr. Rowe; thankless
- Ode to Music on St. Caecelia's Day, air, animated, beside
- On Pastoral Poetry
- On Silence; abusive (cited as Pope's Miscellany in the Dict.); coeval
- Prologue to Mr. Addison's Tragdy of Cato; neighbourhood [or from a preface to an edition of the play]
- Macer; devoir
- The Messiah; adamantine, rise
- The Happy Life of a Village Parson; frank
- The Rape of the Lock; adept; central; hover; virago; (toast quote (sense 3.) from V.10 per Yale Vol. 18, p. 48)
- To Mrs B. on her Birthday; inspirit
- Two Choruses to the Tragedy of Brutus; perish; (friendless quote (sense 1) from II. 13-14, per Yale Vol. 18, p. 98)
- Windsor Forrest; beagle, expatiate, huntress, flight
Miscellanies; [published by Benjamin Motte, likely the 1733 edition] [BKG Note: other titles in the Miscellanies for which the author was not indicated in the 1733 edition are correctly attributed to Pope in the Dict.; SJ may have known these from editions of Pope's Works.]
- Pope and Swift’s Preface (Miscellanies Preface signed by Swift and Pope); aggressor;
- Artemesia; hastiness [mis-attributed to Swift];
- On the Countess of B____ Cutting Paper; vaporish [mis-attributed to Swift];
- Phyrne; jade [mis-attributed to Swift];
- Prologue to Three Hours after Marriage; owler [mis-attributed to Swift]
Dunciad; & Advertisement, Introduction & Notes; acerbity; acumen; anonymous; associate; antithesis; blanket; console; curtain; hawker; nerveless; pinion; over; rake [Pope's Works, 1735 or 1736 octavo ed.] [BKG Note: the personages ("dunces") of the Dunciad can be found at: https://dunciadworld.weebly.com/personages-of-the-dunciad.html.]
1736 Works
- Pastorals:
- Autumn
- Spring; absent;
- Summer; above;
- Winter
- Preface to Works
- Sappho to Phoan; abuse; lop; rend;
- Statius & Preface; apologize; pest; sprung, unburied; wheel
- The Temple of Fame; villain; wit
- Vertumnus and Pomona; beauty; lop
Iliad of Homer & Preface & Notes [edition cited is uncertain]; ablution; add in the Dict. 4th ed. is from the 1736 4th Iliad edition or later; Essay on Homer; Vol. I; Essay on Homer’s Battels; Vol. II
Imitations of Horace; The works of Alexander Pope, Esq; Vol. II. Part II. Containing imitations of Horace and Dr. Donne; [1738 octavo edition]: a; cit; nameless; relish; stocking; weasel; wed; [1740 or 1743 edition]: kitchen; ruffle; nepenthe; poison; worship; [To Augustus]: wanderer; white
1739 Works, Vol. II (or 1741 or 1743 reprint);
- Epitaph on Gay; simplicity
- Epitaph on Fenton; regret
- Epitaph on Newton [does not appear until 1745 ed. -perhaps from memory]; nature; [4th Dict. Ed. variant, perhaps from memory]: night
- Epitaph on Withers; corruption
- Essay on Man & Preface; absurd; accord (Epistle II); ant; [1745 or 1746 octavo edition]: excrement; wing
- Moral Essays; adust;
- The Universal Prayer
- To Dr. Arbuthnot; charcoal; dinner-time; word
- To Bathurst; almshouse; who (in 4th Dict. ed. from earlier Works eds.)
- To Cobham; arcade, glow, scoop
- To a Lady; accept; deliberately; unwounded; decencies (in the form appearing in the 1748 Pope/Warburton edition)
Martinus Scriblerus [by Arbuthnot and Pope] in The works of Alexander Pope, Esq; Vol. III. Part II. Containing the Dunciad, Book IV. And the memoirs of Scriblerus. Never before printed.. 1742, London: printed for R. Dodsley, and sold by T. Cooper; abductor;
Letters & Preface: 1739 Works, Vol. V (or 1741 or 1743 reprint): The works of Alexander Pope, Esq; Vol. V. Containing an authentic edition of his letters. 1739, London: printed for T. Cooper in Pater-Noster-Row. [BKG Note: this title appears to be the earliest containing the Parnelle [Parnel] to Pope letter cited by SJ in the 1755 Dict. under fall. See the BKG working notes on all 1755 Dict. letter sources at the bottom of this page.]
Edition not yet determined (some titles may be encompassed by the titles above):
- Horace impr.
- Horace’s Epistles
- Notes on Ethical Epistles
- Notes to Shakespeare
- Notes on Shakespeare’s Henry V
- Odyssey of Homer & Notes; abandoned; gender (Pope's Notes on the Odyssey corrected to Broome in the 1773 Dict.); pavilion [BKG Note: identified, June 2024, as unattributed by Prof. Matthew Davis, U. of Virginia; source identified by Davis as Alexander Pope, Odyssey of Homer]
- Pope to Parnel; fall (citation incorrect: should be Pope To Robert Earl of Oxford, and Earl Mortimer - prefixed to Dr. Parnelle's Poems, published after his death by Pope)
- Pope [To the author of a Poem entitled "Successio"]; reprisal [BKG Note: attribution incorrectly changed to Dorset in 1773 Dict.]
- Satires & Prologue & Epilogue (1738 or 1753? see Warburton); affair;
- Satires of Donne; The works of Alexander Pope, Esq; Vol. II. Part II. Containing imitations of Horace and Dr. Donne; emulate;
- To Gay
- To Swift
- View of Epic Poetry
- Pope (no work cited)
[BKG Working Notes for Citations in the 1755 Dict. of Letters to and from Pope plus other Letters citations. About 225 citations identified as from letters. The Pope-related letters appear to be from the 1739 or later edition of Pope's Works.]
- Pope to Swift; closure; desperate; disapprobation; exemplify; fall; fit; frank; get; glut; goer; good; haymaker; hereditarily; hew; hold; housewife; inflammatory; investigation; jump; laconick; laconism; look; monument; piss; popishly; precipitate; principle; probation; questionary; sharer (same quote as probation); unamendable; unhurtfully; unimportant; use; what; writative;
- Swift to Pope; acquaintance; bungle; call; dutiful; either; elderly; endorse; expectant; fast; feverish; go; harden; heart-burning; helper; look (2); luggage; make up; middle-aged; procrastinate; ratsbane; runner; slip; strenuous; ungenial;
- Atterbury to Pope; balance; bill; intentionally; level; pompous; set;
- Digby to Pope; bubbler; consopiation; drop; impearl; irascible; lameness;
- Trumbull to Pope; caveat; equal;
- Addison to Pope; conclude;
- Arbuthnot to Pope: despisable;
- Pope to Parnel; fall (citation incorrect: should be Pope To Robert Earl of Oxford, and Earl Mortimer - prefixed to Dr. Parnelle's Poems, published after his death by Pope);
- Parnel to Pope; exasperate (Letter XXV of Letters to and from Several Persons, vol. 5, p.146 in 1789 edition; footnote says not in Pope's first edition of the letters);
- Blount to Pope; fall; gladly; representative; take; vestry;
- Jervas to Pope; fueillage;
- Berkley, Berkeley to Pope; few; hedgerow; retrieved; throw; worth;
- Cromwell to Pope; interpolation;
- Steele to Pope; ruminate;
- Letter to Pope's Dunciad; scribbler;
- Letter to Publ. of Dunciad; in; satirist; sculk; surreptitious;
- Pope's Letters; abroad; absorpt; adapt; air; anchoret; any; artlesly; behind; bite; bookworm; bull; by; caravansary; cast; chagrin; cocksure; discover; gloomy; hive; knavish; least; lose; maker; monotony; nose; nothing; openness; over-abound; pad; pane; solitary; something; stick; vent; uncensured; uncovered; under;
- Pope's Letters to Gay; apparatus;
- Pope's Preface to his Letters; ambition;
- Swift, Letter lxii; account-book;
- Swift's Letter concerning the Sacramental Test; defile;
- Swift's Letter to the Lord High Treasurer; explode; fierceness; lapse;
- Swift's Letters; ailment; as; blab; boisterously; break; clap;
- Swift's Draper's, Drapier's Letters; alewife; brazier; double; fly; foot; for; news (2);
- Swift to Gay; court; genteel; giddy; horseback; hosier; jolt; lateness; moral; respect; rooted; second-hand; spunge; visiter; untinged; walker;
- Swift to Lord Bolingbroke; a clatter; economy;
- Swift to Lord High Treasurer; adjust; explode; fierceness; lapse; mangle;
- Swift to Lord Middleton; ascertainment;
- Swift; letter
- Bolingbroke to Swift: alehouse-keeper; lustre;
- Dennis's Letters: alienable; avoidless; bolting-house; bowl; gambade/gambado; kinswoman; latinity; leash; relation; salutiferous; unbacked; [BKG Note: additional Dennis Letters cites on Dennis author page.]
- Donne [John]; Donne's Letters; Letters to severall persons of honour. 1651, London : Printed by J. Flesher, for Richard Marriot, and are to be sold at his shop in St Dunstans Church-yard under the Dyall (also reissued with a 1654 title page). [addressed to A V. Merced in 1651 edition; per Edmund Gosse in 1899 edition of the Donne Letters, A Vuestra Merced - to your Highness]; manner (p.138); [BKG note: Only one "Donne's Letters" cite by title identified in 1755 Dict. All other Donne quotes appear to be poetry.]
- Howel's [Howell's] Letters Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ : familiar letters domestick and foreign, divided into four books; partly historical, political, philosophical. Upon emergent occasions. By James Howell. The 9th ed., very much corrected. 1726, London: J. Darby, A. Bettesworth, F. Fayram, J. Osborn and T. Longman, J. Pemberton, C. Rivington, J. Hooke, F. Clay, J. Batley, E. Symon; cargason (cargazon in text, inexact quote, perhaps from memory p.209); impeach; moil (added in 1773 Dict.); poldavy (added in 1773 Dict.; inexact quote, perhaps from memory); roarer (added in 1773 Dict.); toot (added in 1773 Dict.; a later Dict. indicates Letters source and tot in text) [BKG Note: there was also a 1754 London edition of the Letters. The 1st edition was 1655.]
- Walsh's Letter [The works of Alexander Pope, Esq; Vol. V. Containing an authentic edition of his letters, 1739 edition] ; objection (Walsh to Pope, July 20, 1706); [scan (Walsh to Pope, Sept. 9, 1706)];
- Woodward Letter i, Woodw. Letters [Letters Relating to the Method of Fossils] in Fossils of all kinds, digested into a method, suitable to their mutual relation and affinity; With The Names by which they were known to the Antients, and those by which they are at this Day known: And Notes conducing to the setting forth the Natural History, and the main Uses, of some of the most considerable of them. As also several papers tending to the further advancement of the knowledge of minerals, of the Ores of Metalls, and of all other Subterraneous Productions. By John Woodward, M. D. late Professor of Physick at Gresham College, Fellow of the College of Physicians, and the Royal Society. 1728, London: printed for William Innys, at the West-End of St. Paul's; abide (abid: same quote for v.n and v.a.); opiniatrety/opiniatry;
- Pope (no work cited); accord; age; ape; apply; balmy; becalm; been; beginning (Pope cite in 1755 Dict., corrected to Broome in the 1773 Dict.); bitch; blow; borough; bought; brighten; burn; cacophony; certain; classick; colouring; deathwatch; deluder; dexterous; disfigure (Pope cite in 1755 Dict., corrected to Broome in the 1773 Dict.); dismal; eastern; empty; family; father; flown; foot; foulmouthed; frozen; gain; gasp; gayly; glad; goad; hall; hear; hight; inspire; instance; knock (attribution changed from Dryden in 1755 Dict. to Pope in 1773 Dict.); [BKG Note: a number of short phrases were added as Pope cites in the 1773 Dict., perhaps from SJ's memory.]