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​Authority Cited: Swift
Author name and dates: Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

BKG Bio-tweet: Anglo-Irish; essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, cleric; foremost English prose satirist; bequest founded mental hospital
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Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 1602 Swift cites by name in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 1758 cites in vol. 2.  Ten Swift cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. in vol. 1, and two Swift cites were identified as added under "L."  these are indicated in bold italic below.  Reddick, in The Making of Johnson's Dictionary, pp. 121-122 lists all authors with more than 10 citations added under "M" through "Z" in the 1773 Dict.   As Swift is not among those listed, the number of addes Swift cites in Dict. vol.2 is taken as less than 10.  The edition of Swift's Works used by SJ is unknown. The Letters volume of the edition title below was issued separately in 1741.  Lot 267 (Octavo) in the Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, a Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, is 17. Swift's Works.  Greene in An Annotated Guide to Samuel Johnson's Library, opines that some of these volumes could be Faulkner's 1735 or Hawkesworth's 1755 editions.   The Pope and Swift Miscellanies  of 1742-46 (first ed. 1732) and perhaps the separate publication of Gulliver's Travels (first ed. 1726) are candidates as sources of 1755 Dict. quotes.  A. Marshall in "The '1735' Faulkner Edition of Swift's Works," The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, 2013, Vol.14(2), pp.154-198, provides detailed information on the 1735 Works content and notes that Directions to Servants is not included.  See notes below under Directions to Servants and Present Posture/State of Affairs.  A bibliography of the writings in prose and verse of Jonathan Swift, D.D. by H. Teerink, 1937, The Hague, M. Nijhoff, was also consulted.   Based on the identifications of the quote sources below, I conclude that SJ likely used this 1742-46 Miscellanies edition, or the reprints that extended to about 1751 as the source of 1755 Dict. quotes of Swift.]  
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Miscellanies. In four [actually 13, two of which are separately titled Tale of a Tub and Gulliver's Travels] volumes. By Dr. Swift, Dr. Arbuthnot, Mr. Pope, and Mr. Gay. The fourth edition corrected: with several additional pieces in verse and prose. 1742-46, London : printed for Charles Bathurst. [Teerink No. 66.]

• Account of Partridge’s Death [THE ACCOMPLISHMENT Of the First of Mr. Bickerstaff's Predictions. BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE Death of Mr. Partrige, the Almanack-Maker, upon the 29th Instant. In a Letter to a Person of Honour]; closeness; stifle; 
• Address to Parliament; account; birthplace; connivance; copse; cottager; [BKG Note: located in Vol.6 of 1742-46 Miscellanies]
• [Apollo Outwitted]; negligent; [BKG Note: located in Vol. 4 of 1742-46 Miscllanies]
• [Author upon Himself]; waiter; whisper; [BKG Note: in Vol. II of the 1741-46 Dublin Works but not located in the early Miscellanies]
• Project for the Advancement of Religion, Advan. of Religion, Proj. &c., ; acceptable; asquint; palliate; reduce [BKG Note: identified, June 2024, as unattributed by Prof. Matthew Davis, U. of Virginia; source identified by Davis as Jonathan Swift]
• Adv. Rep. Sacr. Test [Advantages Proposed by Repealing the Sacramental Test, Impartially Considered]; chimney; disability
• Arguments Against Abolishing Christianity; ability; easy; evaporate; freethinker; headworkman; 
• [Beasts Confession to the Priest]; quadruped; [BKG Note: located in Vol. 8 of 1742-46 Miscellanies]
• Bickerstaff Detected; bounce; dealing; ​
• [Cadenus and Vanessa]; wile; womankind; world [BKG Note: in Vol. II of the 1741-46 Dublin Works and in the early Miscellanies]
• Considerations on Two Bills; fall; lapper; 
• Considerations on Wood's Coin; counter; 
• Contests in Athens and Rome, Distensions in Athens and Rome, Athens and Rome [A DISCOURSE OF THE CONTESTS and DISSENTIONS BETWEEN THE NOBLES and COMMONS in Athens and Rome; with the Consequences they had upon both those STATES]; abatement; accession; account; ailment; compass; spirit; 
• [Description of a City Shower]; abroach; sink, quean, nap; wig; whip; [BKG Note: in vol. 2 of 1732 Miscellanies (also in Dublin Works, but abroach specified by SJ as from Miscellanies); located in Vol. 4 of 1742-46 Miscellanies]
• [Desire and Possession]; weight; [BKG Note: located in Vol. 5 of 1742-46 Miscellanies]
• [Dialogue between Mad Mullinix and Timothy]; never; [BKG Note: located in Vol. 4 of 1742-46 Miscellanies]
• Directions to the Butler; bottle; china; crusted; drain; faucet; gentlefolk; plug; rice; saltcellar; sconce; snuffers; stableboy/stablemen; stand; teem; wine; wrap; 
• Directions to the Chambermaid; bar; corking-pin; funeral; 
• Directions to the Cook; accuse; baste; batter; boil; bowl; char-woman; cotton; course; dish-clout; dresser; mutton; put; roast; skewer; 
• Directions to the Footman; armpit; beau; brandy; convenience; ​fettle; filemot; go; hedge; hold; lap; mash; ramble; [whip]; 
• Directions to the Groom; clear; farrier; founder; full; ostler; ride; ridingcoat; saddlemaker; 
• Directions to the Housemaid; chimneypiece; 
• Directions to Servants, Rules to Servants [Rules that Concern all Servants in General]; damask; dribble; foul; mam/mamma; master (part of mamma quote); mislay; much; muzzle; poker (part of muzzle quote); romp (2); seaservice (same quote as much); sink; spit; step; [BKG Note: Directions to Servants (Rules that Concern all servants plus Directions to 16 named servants) was first published in a "Works" as the 1746 Vol. VII of the 1741-46 Faulkner (Dublin) Works (also published separately in 1745).  [BKG Note: located in the 1746 Vol. 11 of 1742-46 Miscellanies.]
• ​Directions to the Steward; landjobber; 
• [Dog and Thief]; wink; [BKG Note: in Vol. II of the 1741-46 Dublin Works but not located in the early Miscellanies; located in Vol. 5 of 1742-46 Miscellanies]
• Drapier’s Letters; alewife; brazier; double; fly; foot; for; news (2); ​
• Examiner; confederacy; cut; debar; declarative; dock; eradicate; fasten; force; fundamental; garbler; ill; impiety; land-waiter; male; myself; order; security; [BKG Note: Examiner No. 27 seems the most quoted of those issues listed by number.  The Examiner was published separately in 1711, but not published in a "Works" until 1738.]
• Faculties of the Mind; blade; 
• Fates of Clergy, Fates of Clergymen; arch; attendant; [BKG Note: included in the Dublin 1735 Works as Intelligencer #5, and may be in the 1742-46 Miscellanies under both titles.]
• [Furniture of a Woman's Mind]; whiggish; [BKG Note: located in Vol. 5 of 1742-46 Miscellanies]
• [Grand Question debated: WHETHER HAMILTON'S BAWN should be turned into a Barrack or a Malt-house]; weighty; worry [BKG Note: in Vol. II of the 1741-46 Dublin Works (and in the early Miscellanies with the title "Soldier and Scholar"); located in Vol. 5 of the 1742-46 Miscellanies with the Works title.]
• Gulliver’s Travels [Travels into several remote nations of the world : in four parts. 1726, London: Printed for Benj. Motte, at the Middle Temple-Gate in Fleet-street;  abominate; accuser; answer; bandage; bang; benefactor (Pt.I, Ch.6; variant part of sentence is not quoted by SJ, see Hubbard, pp.55-56); bevl/bevil; but-end; caper; chambermaid; contriver; convenience; coverlet; dealer; declivity; determination; draught; drop; erroneously; establishment; express; fall; familiar; favour (same quote as convenience); fleece; flight; flurry; fob; fond; gain; getting; gird; groove; handicraft; hide and seek; hobble; hogshead same quote as draught); indifferently; inhuman; inmost; intrepidity; jerkin; jolt; jump; jumto; ladder; ledge; ligature; listless; lucid; make; maliciously (same quote as junto); maligner; menial; oddly; par; patchwork; pelt; please; plumb; pouch; precipitance/precipitancy; privy; pull; pulley; ring; rust; seem; semstress; set; shove (2); shy; sidling; sleepy; sling; slipboard; small; possible variant, see Hubbard, p.68); sneeze; soporiferous; sour; split; spot; squash; stamp; stand; summersault/summerset; sweetmeat; terribly; tight; uninhabited; unship; urgency; wagonner; wherinto (wherein); ​wistful; [BKG Note: about 44 cites of Gulliver's Travels in 1755 Dict. vol. 1 and about 53 cites in vol. 2.  There are textual differences between the 1726 1st edition and the 1735 and 1741-46 Works pub. by Faulkner, but none were identified that allow determination of which version SJ used.  A useful source for the differences is Hubbard, L.I., Contributions toward a Bibliography of Gulliver's Travels, to establish the number and order of issue of the Motte editions of 1726-27, their relative accuracy, and the source of the changes made in the Faulkner Edition of 1735...., 1922, Chicago: Walter M. Hill.]
• [Horace Book I, Ode XIV]; keel; [BKG Note: located in Vol. 5 of 1742-46 Miscellanies]
• [Horace Book I Ep. VII]; numberless; [BKG Note: located in Vol. 4 of 1742-46 Miscellanies]
• [Horace Lib. II, Sat. VI]; justle; [BKG Note: located in Vol. 4 of 1742-46 Miscellanies]
• Intelligencer; change (#19); dabbler (#19); disliker [#3]; turn [#19]; [BKG Note: #3 and #19 located in Vol.6 of the 1742-46 Miscellainies]
• Introduction to Polite Conversation, Intro. to Genteel Conversation; abbreviate; abbreviation; brangle; candlelight; completely; congratulate; counterview; [expletive] [BKG Note: indicated as untraced in Yale Vol. 18, p. 89, n.5.  The Dict. quote: "These are not only useful expletives to matter, but great ornaments of style."  The text quote: "And it must be allowed, that oaths, well chosen, are not only very useful expletives to matter, but great ornaments of style."]; frequently; 
• [Journal of a Modern Lady]; whim; womanhater; [BKG Note: in Vol. II of the 1741-46 Dublin Works and in the early Miscellanies]
• [Lady's Dressing Room]; wash; [BKG Note: located in Vol. 5 of 1742-46 Miscellanies]
• Last Will, Will; antique; aspect; bank-bill; concur; demise; prebendary; qualify; 
• Letters; account-book; ailment; as; blab; boisterously; break; clap; ​
• [Libel on Reverend Dr. Delaney]; usher; [BKG Note: located in Vol. 5 of 1742-46 Miscellanies]
• Meditation on a Broomstick; broomstick; drudgery; 
• Miscellanies [Miscellanies in prose and verse. In two volumes. By Jonathan Swift, D.D. and Aexander Pope, Esq; to which are added several poems, and other curious tracts not in any former impression. 1732, London: London printed, and re-printed in Dublin, by and for Sam Fairbrother, bookseller in Skinner-Row, opposite to the Tholsel OR Miscellanies. In four volumes. By Dr. Swift, Dr. Arbuthnot, Mr. Pope, and Mr. Gay. The fifth edition corrected: with several additional pieces in verse and prose. 1747, London: printed for Charle[s] Bathurst; OR Miscellanies. In four [actually 13] volumes. By Dr. Swift, Dr. Arbuthnot, Mr. Pope, and Mr. Gay. The fourth edition corrected: with several additional pieces in verse and prose. 1742-46, London : printed for Charles Bathurst; abash (Strephon and Chloe, 1731, in vol. IV. of the 1747 edition); abomination (Conduct of the Allies); abroach (Description of  a City Shower, in vol. 2 of 1732 Miscellanies); keck (Dialogue between Mad Mullinix and Timothy, located in Vol. 4 of 1742-46 Miscellanies); nestle (South-Sea); nutrient (Stella's Birthday); [BKG Note: about 41 cites of Swift's Miscellanies (including poetry and prose) in 1755 Dict. vol. 1 and about 166 cites in vol. 2. ]
• Modern Education [Essay on Modern Education]; afford; circulation; clock; educate; ​[BKG Note: included in the Dublin 1735 Works as Intelligencer #9, and may be in the 1742-46 Miscellanies under both titles.]
• [Ode to the Athenian Society]; querist; watercolours; whimsey (same quote as wqtercolours); [BKG Note: separately published in 1691; not located in the 1741-46 Works, located in Vol. 10 of the 1742-46 London Miscellanies; located in Vol.4, Part 1, dated 1755, of the Hawkesworth London Works.]
• [On Mr. P[ultenle]y being put out of the Council]; wind; [BKG Note: in Vol. II of the 1741-46 Dublin Works (as Pultney) but not located in the early Miscellanies]
• [On Poetry, A Rhapsody]; wipe; [BKG Note: in Vol. II of the 1741-46 Dublin Works but not located in the early Miscellanies]
• [Panegyrick on the Dean]; nicely; wheeze; [BKG Note: located in Vol. 5 of 1742-46 Miscellanies]
• Poems; nail (Run upon the Bankers); nicety (Strephon and Chloe); nightcap (Strephon and Chloe); 
• [Phyllis; or, the Progress of Love]; wheedle; [BKG Note: located in Vol. 4 of 1742-46 Miscellanies]
• Predictions; booth; cant; clan; deceiver; dubiously; 
• Presbyterian Plea of Merit; absolutely; bring; consequence; forehead; repeal; ride; [use]; [BKG Note: located in Vol. 9 of 1742-46 Miscellanies]
• [Progress of Poetry]; waddle; [BKG Note: located in Vol. 4 of 1742-46 Miscellanies]
• Project for Advancement of Religion
• Remarks on the Barrier Treaty & Preface; defend; ​lay; 
• [Riddle ... Another...]; keep; whale
• [Run upon the Bankers]; nail (cited as Swift's Poems) [BKG Note: located in Vol. 5 of 1742-46 Miscellanies]; 
• Sentiments of a Church of England Man, Sentim. of the Church of England; abdication; abhor; abolishment; according; administration; amicably; animosity; atonement; laity; legislature; narrowly; ​
• Ser. 2 [Sermons]; mystery; 
• Short View of Ireland; about; accompany; administrator; contradicter; empoverishment
• [South-Sea]; nestle (cited as Swift's Miscel. in the 1755 Dict.); [BKG Note: located in Vol. 4 of 1742-46 Miscellanies]
• [Stella's Birthday]; nutrient; wrinkle [BKG Note: in Vol. II of the 1;741-46 Dublin Works and in the Miscellanies]
• [Strephon and Chloe]; nicety; nightcap (both Swift's Poems in Dict.); [BKG Note: located in Vol. 5 of 1742-46 Miscellanies]
• Story of an Injured Lady; born; lightly; warning; 
• Swift and Pope’s Preface to Miscellanies [Miscellanies in prose and verse. In two volumes. By Jonathan Swift, D.D. and Aexander Pope, Esq; to which are added several poems, and other curious tracts not in any former impression. 1732, London: London printed, and re-printed in Dublin, by and for Sam Fairbrother, bookseller in Skinner-Row, opposite to the Tholsel OR Miscellanies. In four volumes. By Dr. Swift, Dr. Arbuthnot, Mr. Pope, and Mr. Gay. The fifth edition corrected: with several additional pieces in verse and prose. 1747, London: printed for Charle[s] Bathurst] OR Miscellanies. In four [actually 13] volumes. By Dr. Swift, Dr. Arbuthnot, Mr. Pope, and Mr. Gay. The fourth edition corrected: with several additional pieces in verse and prose. 1742-46, London : printed for Charles Bathurst ; aggressor; communicative; 
• 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; pitchfork; 
• Swift to Lord High Treasurer; adjust; explode; fierceness; lapse; mangle; 
• Swift to Lord Middleton; ascertainment; 
• 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; ​
• Thoughts on the Present Posture of Affairs, [Some Free] Thoughts on the present State of Affairs; address; consist; go; mysterious; ​[BKG Note: not listed by Marshall for the 1735 Dublin Works; located in Vol. 1 of 1742-46 Miscellanies; Vol. 7 of this edition in "The Bookseller to the Reader," states that this title is published for the first time in this edition.  I conclude that SJ likely used this 1742-46 Miscellanies edition, or the reprints that extended to about 1751 as the source of 1755 Dict. quotes of Swift.  I have identified no Swift quotes from Tale of a Tub, which was published as a separate title, without a numbered volume, as was Gulliver's Travels, in this edition.  Later editions of the Miscellanies placed Tale of a Tub in Volume 1.  For a discussion of the various printings of the Miscellanies volumes in this time frame, see L.D. Peterson, A Variant of the 1742-46 Swift-Pope Miscellanies in The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Vol. 66, No. 3 (Third Quarter, 1972), pp. 291-328.]
• Thoughts on Various Subjects, Thoughts; block; cage; enliven; fluency; [thriftilly]; valuable; vein; [BKG Note: located in Vol. 10 of 1742-46 Miscellanies]
• [To a Lady}; kindly; names; wherry; [BKG Note: located in Vol. 11 of 1749 Miscellanies]
• [To Doctor D - l - y [Delany], on the libels writ against him}; wainscot; [BKG Note: located in Vol. 4 of 1742-46 Miscellanies]
• [To Stella, visiting me in my sickness]; question; [BKG Note: located in Vol. 4 of 1742-46 Miscellanies]
• [Traulus, A Dialogue between Tom and Robin]; foul; [BKG Note: separate 2 p. publications in 1730; not located in the 1741-46 Dublin Works; located in Vol. 5 of the 1742-46 London Miscellanies and in Vol. 4, Part 1, dated 1755, of the London Hawkesworth Works.]
• [Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift]; knack; well; wisely; [BKG Note: located in Vol. 4 of 1742-46 ​ Miscellanies, not located in 1741-46 Works]
• Vindication of Isaac Bickerstaff; deplorable; hawker; 
• Wonderful Wonder of Wonders; blindside; 
• [Wood an Insect]; woodlouse (wood louse in 1741-46 Dublin Works) [BKG Note: per Marshall, not in the 1732 Miscellanies; located in Vol. 5 of the 1742-46 London Miscellanies.]
• Swift (no work cited); accept; amphibius; artificial; beetlebrowed; break; charge; collector; commoner; compiler; distort; entitle; faint; latitude; lie (changed from Pope cite in 1755 Dict.)  nastiness (incorrect citation, should be Pope); notch (2) [BKG Note: both notch cites located in Vol. 4 of 1742-46 ​Miscellanies, but both indicated as not by Swift]; try (incorrect citation, should be Savage); wag (incorrect citation, should be Pope); warp (incorrect citation, should be Pope); whimper (incorrect citation, should be Pope); [BKG Note: except for the headwords listed or estimated by number above for the titles without brackets, the citations of Swift are to only his name without a work indicated.  These appear to come from the 1742-46 Miscellanies, or a separately published Gulliver's Travels.  Other poetry or prose subtitles than those listed above are undoubtedly referred to by the "Swift" citations.  The titles above in brackets were identified principally by examining the "Swift" poetry citations for part of the letter "A" and the entire letters "K," "N," "Q," and "W."] 

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