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A

CHRONOLOGICAL CATALOGUE

OF THE

PROSE WORKS[1] OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.

[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.]

Preface, intern. evid.

Life of Father Paul, acknowl.

  1. 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. Boswell. Boswell's meaning, though not well expressed, is clear enough. Mr. Croker needlessly suggests that he wrote 'they are not very numerous.' Boswell a second time (Post, under Aug. 12, 1784, note) mentions his intention to edit Johnson's poems. He died with-out doing it. See also Post, 1750, Boswell's note on Addison's style.
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