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EDITED BY
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THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY
OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
VOLUME X. THE AGE OF JOHNSON
Second Impression, 1920, Corrections and Additions
The errata mentioned in volumes of the History published later than the first
edition of this volume have been corrected in the present impression. In addition,
some misprints noticed later have been corrected, and a few alterations made. The
more important of these are as follows:
The following footnote has been added on p. 158 to 'book,'l. 34
A book bound by Johnson was in Boswell's sale catalogue.
p. 167, footnote 1 for No copy is known. . . separately. read The Proposals are com-
monly wanting. They were printed on a folio sheet and folded in at the end of the
volume, and add a reference to p. 460.
p. 172, footnote 1, 11. 7, 8 for he does not. . . alterations. read a comparison of the
two editions of 1759 shows a large number of alterations affecting the style.
p. 173, footnote 2 for the verses read Garrick's verses.
p. 180, footnote 1 before the Bi-Centenary add The Athenaeum, 11. IX. 1909, and in
p. 231, 1. 25 for invented read adopted.
p. 232, ll. 28, 29 for Goethe. . . the laws read Goethe, from specimens published
earlier by Macpherson, had tried to discover the laws
p. 459, The first entry now reads A bibliography of Samuel Johnson by Courtney,
W. P. , revised by Smith, D. Nichol, was published at Oxford in 1915.
p. 460, l. 41 for The footnote. . . modification. read See footnote, ante, p. 167, and
Courtney and Nichol Smith’s Bibliography, p. 18.
p. 461, last line for printed in the type of read an offprint from
Addenda to the present (2nd) impression
The following should be added to the bibliographies :
pp. 411 ff. chapter 1. Richardson.
The discussion concerning Richardson's supposed indebtedness to Marivaux has
recently been revived, and new evidence brought forward. See Mod. Lang. Rev.
vol. VIII, pp. 464 ff. Oct. 1913, and Modern Philology, vol. xvi, No. 9, January 1919.
pp. 413 ff. chapter 11. Fielding and Smollett.
Under Fielding :
Cross, W. L. The History of Henry Fielding. 3 vols. Yale and Oxford, 1919.
Fielding, H. Selected Essays. Ed. Gerould, G. H. Boston, 1905.
Dobson, A. , Fielding and Andrew Millar. The Library. July 1916.
Wells, J. E. Fielding's Champion and Captain Hercules Vinegar. Mod. Lang. Rev
April 1913.
Some New Facts concerning Fielding's Tumble-Down Dick and Pasquin. Mod.
Lang. Notes (Baltimore). May 1913.
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Wells, J. E. Fielding's Political Purpose in Jonathan Wild. Pab. Mod. Lang. Ask.
America. March 1913.
Under Smollett :
Works. 6 vols. 1904.
Henderson, Andrew. A Second Letter to Dr Samuel Johnson. . . with an impartial
character of Doctor Smollet. n. d. [1775).
pp. 421 ff. chapter 111. Sterne, and the Novel of his Times.
Under Sterne:
Melville, Lewis. Sterne's Eliza. In Some Eccentrics and a Woman. 1911.
Paul, H. Sterne, In Man and Letters. 1901.
Under William Beckford:
The History of the Caliph Vathek. Ed. Ross, E. Denison. 1901.
The Episodes of Vathek. Translated by Sir Frank T. Marzials. With an Introduction
by Lewis Melville. 1912.
Under Smollett :
Works. 6 vols. 1904.
Henderson, Andrew. A Second Letter to Dr Samuel Johnson. . . with an impartial
character of Doctor Smollet. n. d. [1775).
pp. 421 ff. chapter 111. Sterne, and the Novel of his Times.
Under Sterne:
Melville, Lewis. Sterne's Eliza. In Some Eccentrics and a Woman. 1911.
Paul, H. Sterne, In Man and Letters. 1901.
Under William Beckford:
The History of the Caliph Vathek. Ed. Ross, E. Denison. 1901.
The Episodes of Vathek. Translated by Sir Frank T. Marzials. With an Introduction
by Lewis Melville. 1912.
Melville, Lewis. William Beckford of Fonthill Abbey. In Some Eccentrics and a
Woman. 1911.
Under Frances Burney:
Saintsbury, G. In Essays on English Literature 1780–1860. 2nd Series. 1895.
Under Henry Mackenzie:
Kluge, J. Henry Mackenzie. Sein Leben und seine Werke. Anglia, XXXIV. Halle,
1911.
pp. 450–1, chapter vi. Gray.
Essays and Criticisms. Ed. Northup, C. S. Boston and London, n. d. [1909].
Phelps, W. L. (ed. ). Gray's Poetry and Prose (selections). Boston, 1894.
Thomas Gray. Poems. Ed. Poole, Austin Lane. Oxford, 1917.
Cook, Albert S. (ed. ). A Concordance to the English Poems of Thomas Gray. Boston
and New York, 1908.
Elwin, W. Some Eighteenth Century Men of Letters. Vol. 11. 1902.
Farley's Scandinavian Influences. 1903.
Lowell, J. R. Latest Literary Essays. 1891.
Northup, C. 8. In Notes and Queries. 1911.
Warren, Sir T. H. Gray and Dante in Essays of Poets and Poetry, Ancient and Modern.
1909.
Shelley, H. C. Edward Young, Life and Letters of. 1914.
pp. 451 ff. chapter vii. Young, Collins and Lesser Poets of the Age of Johnson.
William Collins. Poems. Ed. Stone, Christopher, and Poole, Austin Lane. Oxford,
1917.
pp. 459 ff. chapter VIII. Johnson and Boswell.
Under Johnson:
Dobson, Austin. A Garret in Gough Square. Eighteenth Century Vignettes, 1st series.
1892.
Rosebery, Lord. Address at Lichfield. 1909 (printed in the bicentenary report).
Saintsbury, G. The Peace of the Augustans. A survey of 18th century literature as
a place of rest and refreshment. 1916.
[Swift, Pope, Johnson, Goldsmith and others. ]
Stephen, Leslie. Johnsoniana, in Studies of a Biographer. Vol. 1. 1898.
pp. 484 ff. chapter x. The Literary Influence of the Middle Ages.
Under Thomas Chatterton:
Clarko, Sir Ernest. New Lights on Chatterton. Bibliographical Society (read, 21. xi.
1914; published, 1916).
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Under Thomas Percy :
Dobson, A. Percy and Goldsmith. In Old Kensington Palace. 1910.
Percy had a copious correspondence with literary men of his time. Practically the
whole of the 856 pages of vol. 11 (1848) and 436 pages of vol. VIII (1858) of Nichols's
Illustrations of the Literary History of the 18th century are occupied by letters to and
from Percy, his correspondents including George Steevens, Dr Grainger, James Boswell,
Michael Lort, Dr Thomas Birch, Archdeacon Nares, Dr Thomas Campbell, the Moira
family, John Nichols and John Pinkerton.
Under Anna Seward :
Lucas, E. V. A Swan and her Friends. 1907.
pp. 493 ff. chapter xi. Letter-writers.
Under Sir Joshua Reynolds :
Phillips, Claude. Sir Joshua Reynolds. n. d. (1893).
Under Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield:
Collins, J. C. In Essays and Studies. 1895.
Under Horace Walpole, fourth earl of Orford:
Two Supplementary Volumes of Letters were added to the Paget Toynbee edn. Oxford,
1919.
Goad, Caroline. Horace in the English Literature of the Eighteenth Century. Yale
and Oxford, 1918.
[Contains a valuable appendix of instances of indebtedness to Horace in 18th
century English writings-Rowe, Addison, Steele, Prior, Gay, Pope, Swift,
Fielding, Richardson, Sterne, Smollett, Johnson, Chesterfield, Walpole. ]
Stephen, Sir Leslie. In Hours in a Library. Vol. 1874.
Under Gilbert White:
Jardine, Sir W. and Jesse, E. (ed. ). 1841.
pp. 506 ff, chapter XIII. Historians 11.
Under Edward Gibbon:
Stephen, Sir L. Gibbon's Autobiography in Studies of a Biographer. Vol. 1. 1898.
pp. 515 ff. chapter xy. Divines.
Alban Butler (1711-1773)
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and other principal Saints; compiled from
original monuments and other authentick records ; illustrated with the remarks of
judicious modern criticks and historians. 4 vols. 1756-9. 12 vols. Dublin,
1779–80; 12 vols. Edinburgh, 1798-1800; etc.
Richard Challoner (1691-1781)
The Garden of the Soul. 6. 1740 and numerous edns.
Memoirs of Missionary Priests, as well secular as regular, and of other catholics of
both sexes that have suffered death in England, on religious accounts, from the
year of our Lord 1577 to 1684. 2 vols. 1741-2 and later edns.
The Rheims New Testament and the Douay Bible, with annotations. 5 vols. 1749–50
and several later edns.
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Title: The Cambridge history of English literature, ed. by A. W. Ward
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VOLUME X
THE AGE OF JOHNSON
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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
C. F. CLAY, MANAGER
London: FETTER LANE, E. C.
Edinburgh: 100, PRINCES STREET
Paris : THE GALIGNANI LIBRARY
Berlin : A. ASHER AND CO.
Bombay and Calcutta: MACMILLAN AND CO. , LTD.
Copyrighted in the United States of America by
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS,
2, 4 AND 6, WEST 45TH STREET, NEW YORK City
All rights reserved
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THE
CAMBRIDGE HISTORY
OF
ENGLISH LITERATURE
EDITED BY
Sir A. W. WARD, Litt. D. , F. B. A. , Master of Peterhouse
AND
A. R. WALLER, M. A. , Peterhouse
VOLUME X
THE AGE OF JOHNSON
*ET
*POCO
ALMA
MATER
CANTA
BRIOLA
NITA ONLINE
CAMBRIDGE:
at the University Press
1913
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Cambridge:
PRINTED BY JOHN CLAY, M. A.
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THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY
OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
VOLUME X. THE AGE OF JOHNSON
Second Impression, 1920, Corrections and Additions
The errata mentioned in volumes of the History published later than the first
edition of this volume have been corrected in the present impression. In addition,
some misprints noticed later have been corrected, and a few alterations made. The
more important of these are as follows:
The following footnote has been added on p. 158 to 'book,'l. 34
A book bound by Johnson was in Boswell's sale catalogue.
p. 167, footnote 1 for No copy is known. . . separately. read The Proposals are com-
monly wanting. They were printed on a folio sheet and folded in at the end of the
volume, and add a reference to p. 460.
p. 172, footnote 1, 11. 7, 8 for he does not. . . alterations. read a comparison of the
two editions of 1759 shows a large number of alterations affecting the style.
p. 173, footnote 2 for the verses read Garrick's verses.
p. 180, footnote 1 before the Bi-Centenary add The Athenaeum, 11. IX. 1909, and in
p. 231, 1. 25 for invented read adopted.
p. 232, ll. 28, 29 for Goethe. . . the laws read Goethe, from specimens published
earlier by Macpherson, had tried to discover the laws
p. 459, The first entry now reads A bibliography of Samuel Johnson by Courtney,
W. P. , revised by Smith, D. Nichol, was published at Oxford in 1915.
p. 460, l. 41 for The footnote. . . modification. read See footnote, ante, p. 167, and
Courtney and Nichol Smith’s Bibliography, p. 18.
p. 461, last line for printed in the type of read an offprint from
Addenda to the present (2nd) impression
The following should be added to the bibliographies :
pp. 411 ff. chapter 1. Richardson.
The discussion concerning Richardson's supposed indebtedness to Marivaux has
recently been revived, and new evidence brought forward. See Mod. Lang. Rev.
vol. VIII, pp. 464 ff. Oct. 1913, and Modern Philology, vol. xvi, No. 9, January 1919.
pp. 413 ff. chapter 11. Fielding and Smollett.
Under Fielding :
Cross, W. L. The History of Henry Fielding. 3 vols. Yale and Oxford, 1919.
Fielding, H. Selected Essays. Ed. Gerould, G. H. Boston, 1905.
Dobson, A. , Fielding and Andrew Millar. The Library. July 1916.
Wells, J. E. Fielding's Champion and Captain Hercules Vinegar. Mod. Lang. Rev
April 1913.
Some New Facts concerning Fielding's Tumble-Down Dick and Pasquin. Mod.
Lang. Notes (Baltimore). May 1913.
>
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Wells, J. E. Fielding's Political Purpose in Jonathan Wild. Pab. Mod. Lang. Ask.
America. March 1913.
Under Smollett :
Works. 6 vols. 1904.
Henderson, Andrew. A Second Letter to Dr Samuel Johnson. . . with an impartial
character of Doctor Smollet. n. d. [1775).
pp. 421 ff. chapter 111. Sterne, and the Novel of his Times.
Under Sterne:
Melville, Lewis. Sterne's Eliza. In Some Eccentrics and a Woman. 1911.
Paul, H. Sterne, In Man and Letters. 1901.
Under William Beckford:
The History of the Caliph Vathek. Ed. Ross, E. Denison. 1901.
The Episodes of Vathek. Translated by Sir Frank T. Marzials. With an Introduction
by Lewis Melville. 1912.
Under Smollett :
Works. 6 vols. 1904.
Henderson, Andrew. A Second Letter to Dr Samuel Johnson. . . with an impartial
character of Doctor Smollet. n. d. [1775).
pp. 421 ff. chapter 111. Sterne, and the Novel of his Times.
Under Sterne:
Melville, Lewis. Sterne's Eliza. In Some Eccentrics and a Woman. 1911.
Paul, H. Sterne, In Man and Letters. 1901.
Under William Beckford:
The History of the Caliph Vathek. Ed. Ross, E. Denison. 1901.
The Episodes of Vathek. Translated by Sir Frank T. Marzials. With an Introduction
by Lewis Melville. 1912.
Melville, Lewis. William Beckford of Fonthill Abbey. In Some Eccentrics and a
Woman. 1911.
Under Frances Burney:
Saintsbury, G. In Essays on English Literature 1780–1860. 2nd Series. 1895.
Under Henry Mackenzie:
Kluge, J. Henry Mackenzie. Sein Leben und seine Werke. Anglia, XXXIV. Halle,
1911.
pp. 450–1, chapter vi. Gray.
Essays and Criticisms. Ed. Northup, C. S. Boston and London, n. d. [1909].
Phelps, W. L. (ed. ). Gray's Poetry and Prose (selections). Boston, 1894.
Thomas Gray. Poems. Ed. Poole, Austin Lane. Oxford, 1917.
Cook, Albert S. (ed. ). A Concordance to the English Poems of Thomas Gray. Boston
and New York, 1908.
Elwin, W. Some Eighteenth Century Men of Letters. Vol. 11. 1902.
Farley's Scandinavian Influences. 1903.
Lowell, J. R. Latest Literary Essays. 1891.
Northup, C. 8. In Notes and Queries. 1911.
Warren, Sir T. H. Gray and Dante in Essays of Poets and Poetry, Ancient and Modern.
1909.
Shelley, H. C. Edward Young, Life and Letters of. 1914.
pp. 451 ff. chapter vii. Young, Collins and Lesser Poets of the Age of Johnson.
William Collins. Poems. Ed. Stone, Christopher, and Poole, Austin Lane. Oxford,
1917.
pp. 459 ff. chapter VIII. Johnson and Boswell.
Under Johnson:
Dobson, Austin. A Garret in Gough Square. Eighteenth Century Vignettes, 1st series.
1892.
Rosebery, Lord. Address at Lichfield. 1909 (printed in the bicentenary report).
Saintsbury, G. The Peace of the Augustans. A survey of 18th century literature as
a place of rest and refreshment. 1916.
[Swift, Pope, Johnson, Goldsmith and others. ]
Stephen, Leslie. Johnsoniana, in Studies of a Biographer. Vol. 1. 1898.
pp. 484 ff. chapter x. The Literary Influence of the Middle Ages.
Under Thomas Chatterton:
Clarko, Sir Ernest. New Lights on Chatterton. Bibliographical Society (read, 21. xi.
1914; published, 1916).
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Under Thomas Percy :
Dobson, A. Percy and Goldsmith. In Old Kensington Palace. 1910.
Percy had a copious correspondence with literary men of his time. Practically the
whole of the 856 pages of vol. 11 (1848) and 436 pages of vol. VIII (1858) of Nichols's
Illustrations of the Literary History of the 18th century are occupied by letters to and
from Percy, his correspondents including George Steevens, Dr Grainger, James Boswell,
Michael Lort, Dr Thomas Birch, Archdeacon Nares, Dr Thomas Campbell, the Moira
family, John Nichols and John Pinkerton.
Under Anna Seward :
Lucas, E. V. A Swan and her Friends. 1907.
pp. 493 ff. chapter xi. Letter-writers.
Under Sir Joshua Reynolds :
Phillips, Claude. Sir Joshua Reynolds. n. d. (1893).
Under Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield:
Collins, J. C. In Essays and Studies. 1895.
Under Horace Walpole, fourth earl of Orford:
Two Supplementary Volumes of Letters were added to the Paget Toynbee edn. Oxford,
1919.
Goad, Caroline. Horace in the English Literature of the Eighteenth Century. Yale
and Oxford, 1918.
[Contains a valuable appendix of instances of indebtedness to Horace in 18th
century English writings-Rowe, Addison, Steele, Prior, Gay, Pope, Swift,
Fielding, Richardson, Sterne, Smollett, Johnson, Chesterfield, Walpole. ]
Stephen, Sir Leslie. In Hours in a Library. Vol. 1874.
Under Gilbert White:
Jardine, Sir W. and Jesse, E. (ed. ). 1841.
pp. 506 ff, chapter XIII. Historians 11.
Under Edward Gibbon:
Stephen, Sir L. Gibbon's Autobiography in Studies of a Biographer. Vol. 1. 1898.
pp. 515 ff. chapter xy. Divines.
Alban Butler (1711-1773)
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and other principal Saints; compiled from
original monuments and other authentick records ; illustrated with the remarks of
judicious modern criticks and historians. 4 vols. 1756-9. 12 vols. Dublin,
1779–80; 12 vols. Edinburgh, 1798-1800; etc.
Richard Challoner (1691-1781)
The Garden of the Soul. 6. 1740 and numerous edns.
Memoirs of Missionary Priests, as well secular as regular, and of other catholics of
both sexes that have suffered death in England, on religious accounts, from the
year of our Lord 1577 to 1684. 2 vols. 1741-2 and later edns.
The Rheims New Testament and the Douay Bible, with annotations. 5 vols. 1749–50
and several later edns.