Author:Robert Dodsley

Robert Dodsley
(1704–1764)

Robert Dodsley

Works

• Servitude: a poem. To which is prefix'd, an introduction, humbly Submitted to the Consideration of all Noblemen, Gentlemen, and Ladies, who keep many Servants. Also a postscript, occasion'd by a late trifling pamphlet, entituled, Every body's business, is no body's. Written by a Footman. In Behalf of Good Servants, and to excite the Bad to their Duty (1729) [preface and postscript ascribed to Daniel Defoe]
• An epistle from a footman in London to the celebrated Stephen Duck (1731)
• A Muse in Livery, or the Footman’s Miscellany (1732)
• An epistle to Mr. Pope, occasion'd by his Essay on man (1734)
• The modern reasoners: an epistle to a friend (1734)
• The Toy-Shop. A dramatick satire. (1735)
• Beauty: or the art of charming. A poem (1735)
• The King and the Miller of Mansfield (1737) (external scan)
• Sir John Cockle at court. Being the sequel of The king and the miller of Mansfield. A dramatick tale (1738)
• The art of preaching, in imitation of Horace's Art of poetry (1739)
• The chronicle of the Kings of England. Written in the manner of the ancient Jewish historians. By Nathan Ben Saddi, a priest of the Jews. London: printed for T. Cooper, 1740. (1740)
• The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green (1741)
• Colin's kisses. Being twelve new songs design'd for music (1742)
• Pain and patience. A poem. (1742)
• The triumph of peace, a masque. Perform'd at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane. On occasion of the general peace, concluded at Aix la Chapelle, October 7th, 1748. (1749)
• The oeconomy of human life. Translated from an Indian manuscript, written by an ancient Bramin. To which is prefixed an account of the manner in which the said manuscript was discovered. In a letter from an English gentleman, now residing in China, to the Earl of ****. (1750)
• Public virtue: a poem. In three books. I. Agriculture. II. Commerce III. Arts. (1753)
• Melpomene: or the regions of terror and pity. An ode (1757)
• Cleone. A tragedy (1758)
• Select fables of Esop and other fabulists: in three books (external scan)
• Aesop's fables (external scan)
• The poetical works of Robert Dodsley. With the life of the author (1797)

Works about Dodsley

• "Dodsley, Robert," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Dodsley, Robert," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)