"Several of us got round Dr. Johnson, and complained that he would not give us an exact catalogue of his works, that there might be a complete edition. He smiled, and evaded our entreaties. That he intended to do it, I have no doubt, because I have heard him say so; and I have in my possession an imperfect list, fairly written out, which he entitles Historia Studiorum. I once got from one of his friends a list, which there was pretty good reason to suppose was accurate; for it was written down in his presence by this friend, who enumerated each article aloud, and had some of them mentioned to him by Mr. Levett, in concert with whom it was made out; and Johnson, who heard all this, did not contradict it. But when I showed a copy of this list to him, and mentioned the evidence for its exactness, he laughed, and said, 'I was willing to let them go on as they pleased, and never interfered.' Upon which I read it to him, article by article, and got him positively to own or refuse; and then, having obtained certainty so far, I got some other articles confirmed by him directly, and, afterwards, from time to time, made additions under his sanction." See vol. iii., p. 323. [N.B. To those which he himself acknowledged is added acknowl. To those which may be fully believed to be his from internal evidence, is added intern. evid.] 1735. ABRIDGEMENT and translation of Lobo's Voyage to Abyssinia. acknowl. 1738. Part of a translation of Father Paul Sarpi's History of the Council of Trent. acknowl. [N.B. As this work, after some sheets were printed, suddenly stopped, I know not whether any part of it is now to be found.] FOR THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. Preface. intern. evid. Life of Father Paul. acknowl. 1739. A complete vindication of the Licenser of the Stage from I do not here include his Poetical Works; for, excepting his Latin Translation of Pope's Messiah, his London, and his Vanity of Human Wishes imitated from Juvenal; his Prologue on the opening of Drury Lane Theatre by Mr. Garrick, and his Irene, a Tragedy, they are very numerous, and in general short; and I have promised a complete edition of them, in which I shall with the utmost care ascertain their authenticity, and illustrate them with notes and various readings. This projected edition of the Poetical works Boswell does not seen to have executed.-Editor. 1740. 1741. 1742. the malicious and scandalous aspersions of Mr. Brooke, authour of Gustavus Vasa, acknowl. Marmor Norfolciense: or, an Essay on an ancient prophetical inscription in monkish rhyme, lately discovered near Lynne in Norfolk: by PROBUS BRITANNICUS. acknowl. FOR THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. Life of Boerhaave. acknowl. Address to the Reader. intern. evid. Appeal to the Publick in behalf of the Editor. intern. evid. Considerations on the case of Dr. Trapp's Sermons; a plausible attempt to prove that an authour's work may be abridged without injuring his property. acknowl. FOR THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. Preface. intern. evid. Life of Admiral Drake. acknowl. Life of Philip Barretier. acknowl. FOR THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. Preface. intern. evid. A free translation of the Jests of Hierocles, with an intro- Debate on the Humble Petition and Advice of the Rump Translation of Abbe Guyon's Dissertation on the Ama- Translation of Fontenelle's Panegyrick on Dr. Morin. intern. evid. FOR THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. Preface. intern. evid. Essay on the Account of the Conduct of the Duchess of An Account of the Life of Peter Burman. acknowl. Proposals for printing Bibliotheca Harleiana, or a Cata- Abridgement, entitled, Foreign History. intern, evid. 1743. Dedication to Dr. Mead of Dr. James's Medicinal Dictionary, intern. evid. 1744. 1745. FOR THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. Preface. intern. evid. Parliamentary Debates under the name of Debates in the Senate of Lilliput, from Nov. 19, 1740, to Feb. 23, 1742-3, inclusive. acknowl. Considerations on the Dispute between Crousaz and Warburton on Pope's Essay on Man. intern. evid. A Letter, announcing that the Life of Mr. Savage was speedily to be published by a person who was favoured with his Confidence. intern. evid. Advertisement for Osborne concerning the Harleian Catalogue. intern. evid. Life of Richard Savage. acknowl. Preface to the Harleian Miscellany. acknowl. FOR THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. Preface. intern. evid. Miscellaneous Observations on the Tragedy of Macbeth, with remarks on Sir T. H.'s (Sir Thomas Hanmer's) Edition of Shakspeare, and proposals for a new Edition of that Poet. acknowl. 1747. Plan for a Dictionary of the ENGLISH LANGUAGE, addressed to Philip Dormer, Earl of Chesterfield, acknowl. 1750. The RAMBLER, the first Paper of which was published 20th of March this year, and the last 17th of March, 1752, the day on which Mrs. Johnson died.1 acknowl. 1751 1753 Letter in the General Advertiser to excite the attention of the Publick to the Performance of Comus, which was next day to be acted at Drury-Lane Playhouse for the Benefit of Milton's Granddaughter. acknowl. Preface and Postscript to Lauder's Pamphlet, entitled, "An Essay on Milton's Use and Imitation of the Moderns in his Paradise Lost." acknowl. Life of Cheynel, in the Miscellany called "The Student." Letter for Lauder, addressed to the Reverend Dr. John Dedication to John Earl of Orrery, of Shakspeare Illustrated, by Mrs. Charlotte Lennox, acknowl. During this and the following year he wrote and gave to his much loved friend Dr. Bathurst the Papers in the Adventurer, signed T. acknowl. 1754. Life of Edw. Cave in the Gentleman's Magazine. acknowl. 1 This is a mistake. The last number of the Rambler appeared on the fourteenth of March, three days before Mrs. Johnson died. See vol. i., p. 178.—Malone. |