1787
ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION
Samuel Johnson
Anonymous, "Epigram on Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides" Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser (10 September 1787).
Commentary for
Samuel Johnson:
1737: Gilbert Walmsley
1739: Anonymous
1741: Edward Cave
1750 ca.: Thomas Cooke
1750: Anonymous
1750: Rev. William Dodd
1750: Edward Cave
1752: Hester Mulso Chapone
1758: William Shenstone
1759: Anonymous
1762: Rev. Charles Churchill
1763: Anonymous
1763: Robert Lloyd
1765: George Matisson Rothwel
1765: Anonymous
1765: Anonymous
1765: Lichfield
1765: Anonymous
1765: J. T.
1765: Cuthbert Shaw
1765: C. M.
1765: Anonymous
1765: Anonymous
1765: Anonymous
1765: Charles Denis
1765: William Kenrick
1766: Rev. Joseph Warton
1766: AE
1766: W. J.
1766: Old Blow the Bellows
1766: C. M.
1767: Anonymous
1769 ca.: Thomas Gray
1770: George Lyttelton
1771: James Beattie
1771: Anonymous
1771: Horace Walpole
1772: A. C.
1772: Anonymous
1773: Robert Fergusson
1773: Anonymous
1775: An Englishman
1775: William Woty
1775: Causidicas
1775: Leechlade
1775: George Colman
1775: U GIO
1776: Anonymous
1776: William Barnard
1778: Rev. Percival Stockdale
1778: M. Macgreggor, Esq.
1779: Rev. Thomas Maurice
1780 ca.: Francis Grose
1781: Horace Walpole
1781 ca.: Rev. Robert Potter
1781: Elizabeth Montagu
1781: Anonymous
1781: J. D.
1781: Rev. William Tasker
1781: Anonymous
1782: John Scott of Amwell
1782: Anonymous
1782: Anonymous
1782: Anonymous
1782: Philo-Lyristes
1783: Anonymous
1784: William Cowper
1784: Clio
1784: William Woty
1784: H. K.
1784: J. D.
1784: John Hoole
1784: Anna Seward
1784: A. W.
1784: Anonymous
1784: J. B-e
1785 ca.: William Julius Mickle
1785: H. S.
1785: Rev. George Butt
1785: Classicus
1785: E. T. P.
1785: W. W-y-.
1785: Rev. James Fordyce
1785: J. E.
1785: Mr. Arrowsmith
1785: B. Walwyn
1785: Anonymous
1785: A. L.
1785: Anonymous
1785: Anonymous
1786: A Lady
1786: Anonymous
1786: Soame Jenyns
1786: Anonymous
1786: John Courtenay
1786: Philalethes
1786: George Colman
1786: Old Salusbury Briar
1786: Gilbert Horne
1786: James Boswell
1786: Anonymous
1786: Christopher Anstey
1786: Rev. Richard Graves
1786: Anonymous
1787: George Colman
1787: Miss Bruce
1787: Anonymous
1788: Anonymous
1788: Peter
1788: O. L. M.
1788: Rev. Richard Graves
1789: Rev. Andrew Macdonald
1790 ca.: Horace Walpole
1790: Anonymous
1790: Anna Seward
1791: Anna Seward
1791: Isaac D'Israeli
1791: Anonymous
1791: Rev. Bryan Waller
1791: Anonymous
1791: Causidicus
1791: Francis Garden
1792: William Thomas Fitzgerald
1795: Anonymous
1796: Anna Seward
1796: Anna Seward
1797: George Dyer
1798: Thomas Green
1798: Edward Gardner
1799: Lady Catherine Rebecca Manners
1799 ca.: Alexander Chalmers
1800: Dr. Nathan Drake
1800 ca.: George Hardinge
1800: Thomas Dermody
1801: Anonymous
1802: Rev. Henry Kett
1803: Anonymous
1806: John Wooll
1806: Dr. John Aikin
1807: Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges
1807: Rev. Percival Stockdale
1811: Richard Cumberland
1813: Dr. John Wolcot
1814: Sir George Beaumont
1814: Anonymous
1815: William Wordsworth
1819: William Hazlitt
1821: Anonymous
1822: William Cook
1822: Tobias Oldschool
1824: Rev. Thomas Frognall Dibdin
1824: Bryan Waller Procter
1825 ca.: Joseph Cradock
1825: John Taylor Esq.
1829: Anonymous
1830: Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges
1831: John Wilson Croker
1831: Rev. Samuel Hoole
1831: Thomas Babington Macaulay
1832: John Taylor Esq.
1833: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1835: Robert Southey
1835 ca.: Charles Crocker
1838: Anonymous
1840: Thomas Carlyle
1852: Mary Russell Mitford
1880: W. J. Courthope
When Jamie Boswell took his pen
The Doctor's sayings to record;
Professors look'd like common men,
And Johnson of the Clan the Lord.
Whate'er the Doctor blunder'd out,
Let it be prose or be it verse,
Jamie wrote down without one doubt
And priz'd it, as it had been Erse.
But could it be poor Johnson's fate
To read these pages, as 'tis mine;
The folio thrown at Osborne's pate,
Dear Jamie, would be thrown at thine.