Authority Cited: [Pulteney]
Author name and dates: Pulteney, John (c.1661-1726)
BKG Bio-tweet: Son of M.P.; Westminster school under Dryden’s earlier tutor Busby; Christ Church Oxford; later lawyer, M. P., served Sydney
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: One unattributed Pulteney quote added under new headword, distractive, in 1773 Dict. “Oft grown unmindful through distractive cares / I’ve stretch’d my arms and touch’d him unawares.” No headword or quotation in the 1755 Dict.; quote identified, June 2024, as unattributed in the 1773 Dict. by Prof. Matthew Davis, U. of Virginia; Davis notes the source is misidentified as Dryden in later Dict. editions. Davis traces the source to “Hermione to Orestes,” in Ovid’s epistles, translated by several hands. (Several editions of this text and citations from Dryden’s Preface are noted on the Dryden page.) Davis proposes that the poem translator is John Pulteney, Esq. as indicated in later editions. (Mr. Pulteney in the 1680 first edition when Pulteney likely was at Oxford, Mr. John Pultney, Esq in the 1712 edition). The edition used by SJ is unknown. Davis makes a new authority identification for the 1773 Dict.! See Unattributed page for futher unattributed quote examples.
Author name and dates: Pulteney, John (c.1661-1726)
BKG Bio-tweet: Son of M.P.; Westminster school under Dryden’s earlier tutor Busby; Christ Church Oxford; later lawyer, M. P., served Sydney
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: One unattributed Pulteney quote added under new headword, distractive, in 1773 Dict. “Oft grown unmindful through distractive cares / I’ve stretch’d my arms and touch’d him unawares.” No headword or quotation in the 1755 Dict.; quote identified, June 2024, as unattributed in the 1773 Dict. by Prof. Matthew Davis, U. of Virginia; Davis notes the source is misidentified as Dryden in later Dict. editions. Davis traces the source to “Hermione to Orestes,” in Ovid’s epistles, translated by several hands. (Several editions of this text and citations from Dryden’s Preface are noted on the Dryden page.) Davis proposes that the poem translator is John Pulteney, Esq. as indicated in later editions. (Mr. Pulteney in the 1680 first edition when Pulteney likely was at Oxford, Mr. John Pultney, Esq in the 1712 edition). The edition used by SJ is unknown. Davis makes a new authority identification for the 1773 Dict.! See Unattributed page for futher unattributed quote examples.
- Ovid's epistles, translated by Several Hands, 1680 London: Printed for Jacob Tonson at the sign of the Judge's Head in Chancery Lane near Fleet-Street; distractive