Authority Cited: Smith [Edmund]
Author name and dates: Edmund Smith (1672-1710)
BKG Bio-tweet: Poet of reputation at W&M court; licentious, expelled from Oxford; SJ: possession rather than exertion of uncommon abilities
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The works of Mr. Edmund Smith, late of Christ-Church, Oxford. Containing I. Phædra and Hippolitus. II. A poem on the death of Mr. Philips. III. Bodleian speech. IV. Pocockius, &c. To which is prefixed A character of Mr. Smith, by Mr. Oldisworth. 1714, London: printed for Bernard Lintott, between the Two Temple-Gates. [BKG Note: the Works edition (or separate publications of the Smith citations) used by S.J. is unknown. About 58 Smith cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 66 Smith cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. Six Smith cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below. All citations to "Smith" that were sourced were to the listed poems and are indicated in brackets below. The large majority of cites to"Smith" with no work cited appear to be from Phaedra and Hippolitus. All additions to the 1773 Dict. are from To the Memory of Philips.]
Author name and dates: Edmund Smith (1672-1710)
BKG Bio-tweet: Poet of reputation at W&M court; licentious, expelled from Oxford; SJ: possession rather than exertion of uncommon abilities
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary)
The works of Mr. Edmund Smith, late of Christ-Church, Oxford. Containing I. Phædra and Hippolitus. II. A poem on the death of Mr. Philips. III. Bodleian speech. IV. Pocockius, &c. To which is prefixed A character of Mr. Smith, by Mr. Oldisworth. 1714, London: printed for Bernard Lintott, between the Two Temple-Gates. [BKG Note: the Works edition (or separate publications of the Smith citations) used by S.J. is unknown. About 58 Smith cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 66 Smith cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. Six Smith cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below. All citations to "Smith" that were sourced were to the listed poems and are indicated in brackets below. The large majority of cites to"Smith" with no work cited appear to be from Phaedra and Hippolitus. All additions to the 1773 Dict. are from To the Memory of Philips.]
- Phaedra and Hippol. [Hippolitus]; amaze; away; blush; brandish; bride; brood; but; by; dishevel; [dream (Dedication)];dwell; early; [equal]; express; [forethink]; hagard; hapless; lower; make; off; stand; stick; ungorged; whip; wing; wreath;
- Pocockius in Musae Anglicanae [Musarum Anglicanarum analecta] [BKG Note: a poem in Latin which Johnson mentions in the definition: "To GANCH (GANCH) v.a.[ganciare, from gancio, a hook, Italian; ganche, French.]To drop from a high place upon hooks by way of punishment: a practice in Turkey, to which Smith alludes in his Pocockius. Cohors catenis qua pia stridulis/Gemunt onusti, vel sude trans sinum/Luctantur actâ, pendulive/Sanguineis luctantur in unæs. Musæ Angl."]
- To the Memory of [John] Phillips [Philips]; antique; bawl; below; content; [crutch]; [defend (inexact quote, perhaps from memory)]; [delicious (corrected from Swift in 1755 Dict.)]; [faint]; [far-fetched]; [feeble (same quote as crutch)]; [fire (same quote as faint]; [fustian]; [monkish]; [redstreak]; [ride]; [strong]; unchecked;
- Smith, E. (no work cited); beamy; buskin; chime; clasp; clew; conquer; cough; crash; curdle; dam; dangle; dead; din; disjoint; distort; doom; drag; drug; earthborn; epitaph; equivocate; essay; falter; far-fetched; flagrant; forswear; glow; good; howl; humble; inheritance; jingle; lop; mantle; mark; neigh; noisy; overrun; outstretch; painful; part; perhaps; presence; press; pride; prospect; provocation; rashly; rave; ravenous; reek; remotely; ring; round; shakle; shambling; sharpen; shield; short; shudder; sing; spiritless; startle; stetch (same quote as shakle); struggle; sure; swim; throb; to (2); tusk; vest; unappalled; unknow; unrelenting; unstrung; unsuspicious; untainted; untasting; unutterable; waste; well(-timed); whirl (2); whiten; wreak;