Authority Cited: Savage
Author name and dates: Richard Savage (c.1697-1743)
BKG Bio-tweet: Poet; satirist; claimed noble parentage; attracted and offended patrons (Pope); companion of SJ who wrote Life
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: four Savage cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, four Savage cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. Ten Savage cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below.]
Author name and dates: Richard Savage (c.1697-1743)
BKG Bio-tweet: Poet; satirist; claimed noble parentage; attracted and offended patrons (Pope); companion of SJ who wrote Life
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: four Savage cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, four Savage cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. Ten Savage cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below.]
- London and Bristol compar'd. A satire: written in Newgate, Bristol, by the late Richard Savage, Esq; 1744, London: printed for M. Cooper in Pater-Noster-Row; insult
- A POET's Dependance on a STATESMAN: By Richard Savage, Esq. in The Gentleman's Magazine: and historical chronicle, Apr 1736, Vol.VI, p.225; lose
- Of public spirit in regard to public works. A poem, to His Royal Highness Frederick, Prince of Wales. By Richard Savage, Esq; the second edition. 1739, London : Printed for R. Dodsley, at Tully's Head, in Pall-mall; perquisited (p.5) [BKG Note: the 1739 second edition of this poem is the first in which these lines appear; for SJ's discussion of the omission and restoration of these lines see his Life of Savage, in Yale vol. 22, p.926]; sterilize (p.12);
- The Volunteer Laureat, Numb. VII, for the 1st of March, 1738, A poem sacred to the memory of the late Queen, Humbly address'd to His Majesty in The Gentleman's Magazine: and historical chronicle, March 1738, Vol. VIII, p.154; fondly; severely (fondly and severely share the same quote); squander;
- The Wanderer: a poem. In five canto's. By Richard Savage, Son of the late Earl Rivers. 1729, London: printed for J. Walthoe, over-against the Royal Exchange, in Cornhill; by; effulge (p.99); elevate (p.75); expanse (p.99); glow (p.99); lone (p.42); petrifick; show (p.42) [BKG Note: the Dict. quote reads shews, the 1729 edition of the poem reads shows]); vain (p.40); want (p.40) [BKG Note: expanse and glow share the same quote; vain and want share the same quote]
- Savage (no work cited); try [BKG Note: Thanks to Prof Beth Rapp Young for noting (2024) that the quote "To ease her cares the force of sleep she tries, Still wakes her mind, though slumbers seal her eyes." is misattributed to Swift in the 1773 Dict. but is from The Wanderer.]