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Authority Cited: Warburton
Author name and dates: William Warburton (1698-1779)

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Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: five Warburton cites identified in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, four cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2.  No additional cites were identified in the 1773 Dict.  The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, Fleeman ed., lists the following items by Warburton: #21 Warburton's Divine Legation, 4v.---Julian; #131 Warburton's Shakespeare 8v.; #377 5. Warburton's sermons, 2v. &c.]
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• On Literary Property: A letter from an author to a member of parliament concerning literary property, 1747, London: Printed for J. and P. Knapton (published anonymously); occupancy. [BKG Note: for Warburton's views on, and financial interest in, literary property, see Nichol, Donald W. (1996) WARBURTON (NOT!) ON COPYRIGHT: CLEARING UP THE MISATTRIBUTION OF AN ENQUIRY INTO THE NATURE and ORIGIN OF LITERARY PROPERTY (1762). Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 19, 171-182.  Nichol discusses the context of the 1747 publication as well as the misattribution of a 1762 anonymous pamphlet taking an opposite view.]
• The works of Shakespear in eight volmes. The genuine text (collated with all the former editions, and then corrected and emended) is here settled: Being restored from the blunders of the first editors, and the interpolations of the two last: With a comment and notes, cirtical and explanatory. By Mr. Pope and Mr. Warburton. 1747, London: Printed for J. and P. Knapton, S. Birt, T. Longman and T. Shewell, H. Lintott, C. Hitch, J. Brindley, J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, R. Wellington, E. New, and B. Dod, ; crash (R&J, I, iii. in Warburton edition. SJ disagrees with W. change to crush, which was made without noting the change in the W. text); demurely (SJ adopts W. sense of S. quote from A&C IV, vii. in W. edition); fairy (SJ adopts W. sense of S. quote from A&C IV, vi. in W. edition, faiery in text); faithfully (SJ adopts W. sense of S. quote from T of A III, ii. in W. edition); gord (SJ adopts W. sense of S. quote from MW of W I, viii. in W. edition; W. also sources the Beaumont and Fletcher quote for gord as from The Scornful Lady); mystery (SJ adopts W. sense of S. quote from T of A IV, i. in W. edition); pilcher (SJ adopts W. sense of S. quote from R&J III, i. in W. edition); [BKG Note: this set, except vol. 6, is at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. SJ also used this set in the preparation of his 1765 Shakespeare edition.] 
• The works of Alexander Pope Esq. In nine volumes complete. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements. Published by Mr. Warburton. 1751, London: Printed for J. and P. Knapton, H. Lintot, J. and R. Tonson, and S. Draper; stall (SJ adopts Warburton's supposed note on the EPILOGUE TO THE SATIRES, In TWO DIALOGUES. Written in MDCCXXXVIII, in Vol. 4. The line referenced is in Dialogue II at line 219, however Warburton supplies no note in the 1751 or 1754 editions.  The note below was found in Vol. 4 of the 1753 Warburton edition of Pope's Works - the note appears to be by Pope or Arbuthnot (Scriblerus), rather than Warburton.  The separate 1738 publication of Dialogue II has not been examined, but is also a possible source.)  [BKG Note: the attribution to Warburton is perhaps a transcriber error from SJ's markup of a Pope volume.  SJ appears to have used a number of different texts for Pope.]
• Warburton (no work cited)

Ver. 219. And goad the prelate slumbering in his stall.] The good Eusebius, in his Evangelical Preparation, draws a long parallel between the ox and the Christian priesthood. Hence the dignified clergy, out of mere humility, have ever since called their thrones by the name of stalls. [BKG emphasis] To which a great prelate of Winchester, one W. Edinton, modestly alluding, has rendered his name immortal by this ecclesiastical aphorism, who would otherwise have been forgotten; Canterbury is the higher rack, but Winchester is the better manger. By which, however, it appears that he was not one of those here condemned, who slumber in their stalls.— Scribler. [BKG Note: too clever by half, I think, to be by Warburton.]

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