Authority Cited: Taylor
Author name and dates: Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)
BKG Bio-tweet: Cleric; retreated to Wales under Cromwell; model of prose style; required Irish-speaking Catholics attend English services
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 273 Taylor cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 282 Taylor cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. Three Taylor cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below. Some Taylor cites are recorded in the Dict. as "Taylour" and some as "Tayl." These are included in the total cite counts but may not be reflected in the sample headwords below. The editions of the titles below used by SJ are unknown. The following items in the Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, a Facsimile Edition, ed. Fleeman appear not to be a source of the Taylor Dict. quotations: 213 Taylor's polemical works, 1674 - Rule of Conscience 1676; 351 . . . Taylor's polemical discourses; 477 Taylor's polemical discourses, 1674]
The Golden Grove. Also known as Taylor's Guide to Devotion, from the running head on each page.
A Guide for the Penitent. Although usually paired and published with Taylor's Golden Grove, this piece, anonymous on its title page, was written by Brian Duppa, Bishop of Winchester. See, for example, Bonney's Life of Taylor (1815), note on p. 222.
The passage Johnson quoted for frail will be found in The Golden Grove. See, for example: Taylor, Golden Grove (27e:1735), p. 49.
Author name and dates: Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)
BKG Bio-tweet: Cleric; retreated to Wales under Cromwell; model of prose style; required Irish-speaking Catholics attend English services
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 273 Taylor cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 282 Taylor cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. Three Taylor cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below. Some Taylor cites are recorded in the Dict. as "Taylour" and some as "Tayl." These are included in the total cite counts but may not be reflected in the sample headwords below. The editions of the titles below used by SJ are unknown. The following items in the Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, a Facsimile Edition, ed. Fleeman appear not to be a source of the Taylor Dict. quotations: 213 Taylor's polemical works, 1674 - Rule of Conscience 1676; 351 . . . Taylor's polemical discourses; 477 Taylor's polemical discourses, 1674]
- Guide to Devotion: The golden grove. A choice manual: containing what is to be believed, practised, and desir'd or pray'd for; the Prayers being fitted to the several Days of the Week. Also festival hymns, According to the Manner of the Ancient Church. Composed for the Use of the Devout; especially of Younger Persons. By Jeremy Taylor, D.D., The Twenty Seventh Edition, 1735, London: printed for J. Walthoe, J.J. and P. Knapton, R. Knaplock, R. Wilkin, D. Midwinter, A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, J. and J. Bonwick, R. Robinson, W. Mears, R. Gosling, W. Innys and R. Manby, B. Motte, S. Birt, D. Brown, T. Ward, and E. Wicksteed, A. Ward, and C. Bowyer; abbreviature; acceptably; annunciation; attent; barrenness; being; charitably; collect; contemptible; creator; doorkeeper (Preface); duty; ejaculation; fastingday; frail; great; incarnation; litany; little; midst; morning; office; oratory; over-joy; pray; prayer; recount; suit; uncleanness; well.
- Guide to a Penitent (starts on p. 100 of the Golden Grove) [BKG Note: see note below for Duppa attribution.] The golden grove. A choice manual: containing what is to be believed, practised, and desir'd or pray'd for; the Prayers being fitted to the several Days of the Week. Also festival hymns, According to the Manner of the Ancient Church. Composed for the Use of the Devout; especially of Younger Persons. By Jeremy Taylor, D.D., The Twenty Seventh Edition, 1735, London: printed for J. Walthoe, J.J. and P. Knapton, R. Knaplock, R. Wilkin, D. Midwinter, A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, J. and J. Bonwick, R. Robinson, W. Mears, R. Gosling, W. Innys and R. Manby, B. Motte, S. Birt, D. Brown, T. Ward, and E. Wicksteed, A. Ward, and C. Bowyer; cross; measure; mode; trustee;
- Holy Living; Rule of Living Holy: The rule and exercises of holy living: in which are described the means and instruments of obtaining every vertue, and the remedies against every vice, and Considerations serving to the resisting all Temptations. Together with prayers containing the whole duty of a Christian, And the Parts of Devotion fitted to all Occasions, and furnished for all Necessities. By Jer. Taylor, D.D. Chaplain in Ordinary to King Charles I, the Twenty Third Edition, 1703, London: printed by J.L. for T. Horne, J. Knapton, R. Knaplock, J. Wyat, D. Midwinter R. Robinson, W. Taylor, J. Bowyer, H. Clements, W. Mears, R. Gosling, W. and J. Innys, W. Churchill, and B. Gowse; abrogate; abstain; adder; airy; almightyness; appendage; appendant; apprehend; arrest; article (2); ashamed; attend; awefullness; bastardy; beatitude; beauteously; before; bill; blesser; bountiful; break; busybody; call; capital; carelesness; . . . lecture; legitimate; let; . . . uprightly; use; way; wellbeing.
- Worthy Communicant: The worthy communicant: or, a discourse of the nature, effects, and blessings consequent to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper; And of all the Duties required in order to a Worthy Preparation. Together With the Cases of Conscience Occurring in the Duty of him that Ministers, and of him that Communicates. As also Devotions fitted to every part of the Ministration. To which is added a Sermon, never Printed with the Folio Volume of Sermons. By Jeremy Taylor, D. D. and late Lord Bishop of Down and Connor, 1701, London: printed for Richard Wellington at the Dolphin and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard; about; acceptability; antitype; aperture; appendant; applicatory; cabinet; carnally; chip; commemoration; communicate; comport; concorporate; condemner; consignation; crookedness; damnation; death's-door; deliciousness; . . . lipothemy; mad; manducation; mysteriously; mysteriousness; . . . sacrificial; sober; synecdoche; unclasp; uncomfortableness.
- Taylor (no work cited); adulterous; affability; affirmative; amability; answer; arithmetick; arrive; as; begin; bring; calice; canonical; capitular; caravan; carcass; . . . discipline; dissolution; drive; intenerate (def. attrib. to Bp. Taylor); . . . latitude; leave; legally; . . . whithersoever; wink; wrongful; zealous.
The Golden Grove. Also known as Taylor's Guide to Devotion, from the running head on each page.
A Guide for the Penitent. Although usually paired and published with Taylor's Golden Grove, this piece, anonymous on its title page, was written by Brian Duppa, Bishop of Winchester. See, for example, Bonney's Life of Taylor (1815), note on p. 222.
The passage Johnson quoted for frail will be found in The Golden Grove. See, for example: Taylor, Golden Grove (27e:1735), p. 49.