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FOR THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.

Preface, intern. evid.

Life of Father Paul, acknowl.

1739. A complete vindication of the Licenser of the Stage from the malicious and scandalous aspersions of Mr. Brooke, author of Gustavus Vasa, acknowl.

1740.

1741.

Marmor Norfolciense: or an Essay on an ancient prophetical inscription in monkish rhyme, lately discovered near Lynne in Norfolk, by PROBUS BRITANNICUS, acknowl.

FOR THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.

Life of Boerhaave, acknowl.

Address to the Reader, intern. evid.

Appeal to the Public in behalf of the Editor, intern. evid.

Considerations on the case of Dr. Trapp's Sermons; a

plausible attempt to prove that an author's work may be abridged without injuring his property, acknowl. 1 (1) * Address to the Reader in May.

FOR THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.

Preface, intern. evid.

Life of Admiral Drake, acknowl.
Life of Admiral Blake, acknowl.

Life of Philip Barretier, acknowl.
Essay on Epitaphs, acknowl.

FOR THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.

Preface, intern. evid.

A free translation of the Jests of Hierocles, with an introduction, intern. evid.

Debate on the Humble Petition and Advice of the

Rump Parliament to Cromwell, in 1657, to assume

(1) These and several other articles, which are marked with an asterisk, were suggested to Mr. Malone by Mr. Chalmers as probably written by Dr. Johnson; they are therefore placed in this general list.-C.

1742.

the title of King; abridged, methodised, and di-
gested, intern. evid.

Translation of Abbé Guyon's Dissertation on the
Amazons, intern. evid.

Translation of Fontenelle's Panegyric on Dr. Morin,
intern. evid.

FOR THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.

Preface, intern. evid.

Essay on the Account of the Conduct of the Duchess
of Marlborough, acknowl.

An Account of the Life of Peter Burman, acknowl.
The Life of Sydenham, afterwards prefixed to Dr.
Swan's edition of his works, acknowl.

Proposals for printing Bibliotheca Harleiana, or a
Catalogue of the Library of the Earl of Oxford,
afterwards prefixed to the first volume of that cata-
logue, in which the Latin accounts of the books were
written by him, acknowl.

Abridgment, entitled Foreign History, intern. evid.
Essay on the Description of China, from the French of
Du Halde, intern. evid.

1743. Dedication to Dr. Mead of Dr. James's Medicinal Dictionary, intern. evid.

FOR THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.

Preface, intern. evid.

Parliamentary Debates under the name of Debates in
the Senate of Lilliput, from Nov. 19. 1740, to Feb.
23. 1742-3, inclusive, acknowl.

Considerations on the Dispute between Crousaz and
Warburton on Pope's Essay on Man, intern. evid.
A Letter, announcing that the Life of Mr. Savage was
speedily to be published by a person who was favoured
with his confidence, intern. evid.

Advertisement for Osborne concerning the Harleian
Catalogue, intern. evid.

1744. Life of Richard Savage, acknowl.

Preface to the Harleian Miscellany, acknowl.

FOR THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.

Preface, intern. evid.

1745. Miscellaneous Observations on the tragedy of Macbeth, with remarks on Sir T. H.'s (Sir Thomas Hanmer's) Edition of Shakspeare, and proposals for

a new Edition of that Poet, acknowl.

1747. Plan for a Dictionary of the ENGLISH LANGUAGE, addressed to Philip Dormer, Earl of Chesterfield, acknowl.

FOR THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.

* Lauder's Proposals for printing the Adamus Exul of Grotius.

[Abridgment of Foreign History, Gent. Mag. 1794, p. 1001.]

FOR THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.

1748. Life of Roscommon, acknowl.

Foreign History, November, intern. evid.

FOR MR. DODSLEY'S PRECEPTOR.

Preface, acknowl.

Vision of Theodore the Hermit, acknowl.

FOR THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.

1749. *Letter on Fire Works.

1750. The RAMBLER, the first paper of which was published

20th of March this year, and the last 17th of March, 1752, the day on which Mrs. Johnson died (1), acknowl.

Letter in the General Advertiser to excite the atten

(1) This is a mistake. The last number of the Rambler appeared on the 14th of March, three days before Mrs. Johnson died.-MALONE.

tion of the public to the performance of Comus, which was next day to be acted at Drury Lane playhouse, for the benefit of Milton's grand-daughter,

acknowl.

Preface and Postscript to Lauder's Pamphlet, entitled "An Essay on Milton's Use and Imitation of the Moderns in his Paradise Lost," acknowl.

FOR THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.

Address to the Public concerning Miss Williams's Miscellanies.

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, acknowl.

Dedication to the Earl of Middlesex of Mrs. Charlotte
Lennox's "Female Quixote," intern. evid.

FOR THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.

* Preface.

* Criticism on Moore's Gil Blas.

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.

FOR THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.

* Preface.

*Notice of Mr. Edward Cave's death, inserted in the

last page of the index.

1754. Life of Edward Cave, in the Gentleman's Magazine, acknowl.

FOR THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.

* Preface.

1755. A DICTIONARY, with a Grammar and History, of the ENGLISH LANGuage, acknowl.

An Account of an Attempt to ascertain the Longitude at Sea, by an exact Theory of the Variations the Magnetical Needle, with a Table of the Variations at the most remarkable cities in Europe, from the year 1660 to 1780, acknowl. This he wrote for Mr. Zachariah Williams, an ingenious ancient Welsh 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 Abridgment of his Dictionary, acknowl.

Several Essays in the Universal Visitor, which there is some difficulty in ascertaining. All that are marked with two asterisks have been ascribed to him, although I am confident, from internal evidence, that we should except from these "The Life of Chaucer," "Reflections on the State of Portugal," and "An Essay on Architecture." And from the same evidence I am confident that he wrote "Further Thoughts on Agriculture" and "A Dissertation on the State of Literature and Authors." The Dissertation on the Epitaphs, written by Pope, he afterwards acknowledged, and added to his " Idler."

Life of Sir Thomas Browne, prefixed to a new edition of his Christian Morals, acknowl.

In the LITERARY MAGAZINE, or UNIVERSAL REVIEW, which began in January, 1756,

His ORIGINAL ESSAYS are,

The Preliminary Address, intern. evid.

An Introduction to the Political State of Great Britain, intern. evid.

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