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of March this year, and the last 17th of March, 1752, the day on which Mrs. Johnson died. acknowl.
Letter in the General Advertiser to excite the attention of the Publick to the Performance of Coinus, which was next day to be acted at Drury-Lane Playhouse for the Benefit of Milton's Grandaughter. acknowl.
Preface and Postscript to Lauder's Pamphlet intitled, 'An Essay on Milton's Use and Imitation of the Moderns in his Paradise Lost.' acknowl.
1751. Life of Cheynel in the Miscellany called 'The Student.' acknowl.
Letter for Lauder, addressed to the Reverend Dr. John Douglas, acknowledging his Fraud concerning Milton in Terms of suitable Contrition, achnowl.
Dedication to the Earl of Middlesex of Mrs. Charlotte Lennox's 'Female Quixotte.' intern, evid[1].
1753. 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.
1755. A Dictionary, with a Grammar and History, of the English Language. acnowl.
An Account of an Attempt to ascertain the Longitude at Sea, by an exact Theory of the Variations of the Magnetical Needle, with a Table of the Variations at the most remarkable Cities in Europe from the year 1660 to 1680. acknowl. This he wrote for Mr. Zachariah Williams, an ingenious ancient Welch Gentleman, father of Mrs. Anna Williams whom he for many years kindly lodged in his House. It was published with a Translation into Italian by Signor Baretti. In a Copy of it which he presented to the Bodleian Library at Oxford, is pasted a Character of the late Mr. Zachariah Williams, plainly written by Johnson, intern, evid.
1756. An Abridgement of his Dictionary, acknowl.
Several Essays in the Universal Visitor, which there is
- ↑ The Female Quixote was published in 1752. See post, 1762, note.
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