Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman's Magazine

10 (1740): iii-viii. S: "Preface."
Samuel Johnson.
[Courtney 11 and Bloom 13 attribute the entire preface to Johnson; Kaminski 117 attributes only the introductory paragraph (p. iii) and the concluding two paragraphs (p. viii) to Johnson; Fleeman 1: 53 accepts Johnson's authorship of the first paragraph.]
10 (1740): 5-15. A: "Debates in the Senate of Lilliput [cont.]."
William Guthrie.
[Kaminski 41, 106; Fleeman 1: 53 attributes this item to Samuel Johnson, but Kaminski's arguments are convincing.]
10 (1740): 24. A: "The Weekly Miscellany, Jan. 19 [1740]. Of the Hospital for exposed Children."
Rev. William Webster [?] (or others).
[Pailler 1: 222]
10 (1740): 31. V: "In Praise of Chaucer, Father of English Poetry."
Rev. Moses Browne.
[Carlson 249] [Orig. "Astrophil"]
10 (1740): 32. V: "To Celia ['Celia, in vain your beauty you expose']."
Dr. John Swan.
[Carlson 263] [Orig. "Amasius"]
10 (1740): 33. V: "Anacreon Ode the 24th. Imitated."
Rev. William Broome.
[Carlson 247] [Orig. "Charles Chester, M.D."]
10 (1740): 43-50. A: "Debates in the Senate of Lilliput [cont.]."
William Guthrie.
[Kaminski 41, 106]
10 (1740): 50-52. L: "Dissertation on Mr [John] Selden's Opinion of the different Faculties of Men."
Sir John Hawkins.
[Davis 16, 378 (n. 17)] [Orig. "I.H."]
10 (1740): 56-60. A: "The Daily Gazetteer, Feb. 6 [1740; 'The true State of the Place- Bill Affair']."
Ralph Courteville [?].
[Haig 7] [Orig. "R. Freeman"]
10 (1740): 70-72. A: "Memoirs of the Life and Character of Mrs [Elizabeth] Rowe [conc.]."
Rev. Henry Grove and Theophilus Rowe.
[Leed 58: 44, n. 1]
10 (1740): 72-73. A: "From the Weekly Miscellany. No. 373. True Self-Love."
Rev. William Webster [?] (or others).
[Pailler 1: 222]
10 (1740): 82. V: "The 25th. Ode of Anacreon Imitated."
Rev. William Broome.
[Carlson 247] [Orig. "Charles Chester, Esq; M.D."]
10 (1740): 82. V: "[Anacreon,] Ode liv. Grown Young. By the Same [i.e., 'Charles Chester, Esq; M.D.'].".
Rev. William Broome.
[Carlson 247] [Orig. "'Charles Chester' Esq; M.D."]
10 (1740): 82. V: "[Anacreon,] Ode xxxi. The pleasing Frenzy. By the Same [i.e., 'Charles Chester, Esq; M.D.'].".
Rev. William Broome.
[Carlson 247] [Orig. "Charles Chester, Esq; M.D."]
10 (1740): 82. V: "[Anacreon,] Ode lii. Grapes, or the Vintage. By the Same [i.e., 'Charles Chester, Esq; M.D.']."
Rev. William Broome.
[Carlson 247] [Orig. "Charles Chester, Esq; M.D."]
10 (1740): 83-84. L: Two poems by the author, "To His Grace, John [Russell, 4th] Duke of Bedford, with the following Ode on the Birth of [Francis Russell] the Marquis of Tavistock," and "An Ode Sacred to the Birth of the Marquis of Tavistock," enc.
Samuel Boyse.
[Bond 90] [Orig. "The Author"]
10 (1740): 84. V: "A Poem inscribed to the Right Honourable the Lord Tullamoore, occasioned by the present Charity."
Rev. Samuel Shepherd.
[Ram 385]
10 (1740): 87. L: Letter enc. a poem ['The Duke of Ar---'s Levee'] by Charles Hamilton, Lord Binning.
Samuel Boyse.
[Carlson 245] [Orig. "Alcaeus"]
10 (1740): 88. V: "A Valentine. Inscribed to Miss Elize D---r, Feb. 14, 1740."
Foster Webb.
[Pailler 2: 601] [Orig."Lysidas"]
10 (1740): 89. V: "Mrs [Elizabeth] Rowe's Verses on the Death of her Husband [a version excelling that printed in GM 9 (1739): 98]."
Elizabeth Rowe.
[Bond 97]
10 (1740): 99-103. A: "Extract of Mr Gulliver's Memoirs, relating to the Characters of the principal Members of the Senate of Lilliput."
Samuel Johnson (in part) [?].
[Pailler 2: 680 (citing Greene 59: 76) attributes the brief introduction to Johnson; Kaminski 230, n. 4, disagrees; Fleeman 1: 53 is dubious.]
10 (1740) 130 L "Question in Opticks [re an 'Optical Phaenomenon' noted while the author observed the moon and the sun reflected in a mirror]."
George Smith of Wigton [?].
de Montluzin 01: 7 Orig. "G.S."
10 (1740): 138. V:"[Anacreon,] Ode liii. The Rose."
Rev. William Broome.
[Carlson 247] [Orig. "Charles Chester, M.D."]
10 (1740): 138. V: "[Anacreon,] Ode xvi. The Power of Beauty. By the Same [i.e., 'Charles Chester, M.D.']."
Rev. William Broome.
[Carlson 247] [Orig. "Charles Chester, M.D."]
10 (1740): 138. V: "[Anacreon,] Ode lv. The Mark. By the Same [i.e., 'Charles Chester, M.D.']."
Rev. William Broome.
[Carlson 247] [Orig. "Charles Chester, M.D."]
10 (1740): 138. V: "On the Benefactions in the late Frost, 1740. By an Eminent Hand."
Alexander Pope.
[Bond 97]
10 (1740): 155-164. A: "Debates in the Senate of Lilliput [cont.]."
William Guthrie.
[Kaminski 41, 106]
10 (1740): 167. L: "A new Method to prevent Swearing."
Samuel Johnson [?].
[Pailler 2: 680 (citing Greene 59: 76) attributes it to Johnson; Kaminski 230, n. 4, disagrees; New Camb. Biblio. 1137 and Fleeman 1: 53 consider the attribution to Johnson questionable.]> [Orig. "S.J."]
10 (1740) 171-172 L "Roman Altar to Fortune [found at Netherby, Cumbria, 10 miles north of Hadrian's Wall]."
George Smith of Wigton [?].
de Montluzin 01: 7 Orig. "G.S."
10 (1740): 193. V: "Ode. Hope's Farewell."
Samuel Boyse.
[Bond 90] [Orig. "[Y]"]
10 (1740): 193. V: "On a young Lady's Recovery from Sickness."
Foster Webb.
[Carlson 264] [Orig. "Vedastus"]
10 (1740): 194. L: Letter enc. an old French sonnet ("La mort egallement faict chacun tributaire").
Foster Webb.
[Pailler 2: 601] [Orig. "Telarius"]
10 (1740): 195. V: "To Mr. P. [Alexander Pope] occasion'd by his Verses on the Benefactions in the late Frost, 1740."
Richard Yate.
[Carlson 264] [Orig. "R. Yate"]
10 (1740): 195. V: "Anacreon, Ode xlviii. Gay Life."
Rev. William Broome.
[Carlson 247] [Orig. "Charles Chester, M.D."]
10 (1740): 197. V: "To Mira. From the Country. By an Eminent Hand."
David Mallet.
[Bond 96]
10 (1740): 197. V: "The Enjoyment of Life. From M. de la Motte's 5th Anacreontic."
Dr. John Swan.
[Carlson 263] [Orig. "Amasius"]
10 (1740): 197. V: "Epigram ['Sir Ralph, no tooth within his head']."
W. ("Count") Bryan.
[Pailler 2: 566] [Orig. "W.B."]
10 (1740): 211-227. A: "Debates in the Senate of Lilliput [cont.]."
William Guthrie; revised by Samuel Johnson.
[Kaminski 41, 45]
10 (1740): 227-230. A: "Characters of the Lilliputian Senators."
Samuel Johnson.
[Pailler 2: 680 (citing Greene 59: 76); Kaminski 230, n. 4; Fleeman 1: 53 considers the attribution "doubtful."]
10 (1740): 245. A: "[Commentary on] A remarkable Case in Physick [the case of a woman subject to heavy sweating]."
Dr. John Swan.
[Carlson 263] [Orig. "Amasius"]
10 (1740): 250. S: "Advertisement [announcing the forthcoming publication of a pamphlet containing 'casual Correspondence' addressed to the GM]."
Samuel Johnson [?].
[Kaminski 231, n. 25; Fleeman 1: 53 considers the attribution doubtful.]
10 (1740): 253-254. V: "From Mr Browne's Piscatory Eclogues. Eclogue V."
Rev. Moses Browne.
[Bond 92]
10 (1740): 255. V: "B. H. Musgrave, ob. Prid. Kal. Maii, A.C. 1740, natus annos 12."
Robert Luck.
[Carlson 257] [Orig. "R.L."]
10 (1740): 256. V: "An Epitaph on an unfortunate young Lady."
Dr. John Swan.
[Carlson 263] [Orig. "Amasius"]
10 (1740): 256. V: "Answer to Aenigma, p. 193 [v. GM 10 (1740): 193]."
Foster Webb.
[Pailler 2: 601] [Orig. "Lycidas"]
10 (1740): 256. V: "A Winter's Day. Written by a Scotch Clergyman. Corrected by an eminent Hand."
Robert Riccaltoun.
[Pailler 2: 589]
10 (1740): 256. V: "Anacreon, Ode 37. The Spring."
Rev. William Broome.
[Carlson 247] [Orig. "Cha. Chester, M.D."]
10 (1740): 267-287. A: "Debates, &c. in the Senate of Lilliput."
William Guthrie; revised by Samuel Johnson.
[Kaminski 41, 45]
10 (1740) 298-299 L "Plurality of Spectrums in the common Mirror [containing further remarks on the 'Optical Phaenomenon' discussed in 10 (1740): 130]."
George Smith of Wigton [?].
de Montluzin 01: 7 Orig. "G.S."
10 (1740): 301-307. A: "The Life of Admiral [Robert] Blake."
Samuel Johnson.
[Courtney 11; Fleeman 1: 53]
10 (1740): 308. V: "Remainder of Renock's Despair, from Mr. Browne's Piscatory Eclogues."
Rev. Moses Browne.
[Bond 92]
10 (1740): 308. V: "[Anacreon,] Ode 50. The happy Effects of Wine."
Rev. William Broome.
[Carlson 247] [Orig. "Charles Chester, M.D."]
10 (1740): 308. V: "[Anacreon,] Ode 56. By the same [i.e., 'Charles Chester, M.D.']."
Rev. William Broome.
[Carlson 247] [Orig. "Charles Chester, M.D."]
10 (1740): 311. V: "[Anacreon,] Ode 15. Happy Life."
Rev. William Broome.
[Carlson 247] [Orig. "Cha. Chester, M.D."]
10 (1740): 311-312. V: "AEnigma ['Ere the foundations of the world were laid']."
Foster Webb.
[Carlson 264] [Orig. "Telarius"]
10 (1740): 312. V: "Pharaoh's Daughter. Presented to the Right Honourable ----- Earl of Exeter. By Mr R. Heigh, late of St. John's College, Cambridge."
Richard Haigh [Heigh].
[Bond 95]
10 (1740): 312. V: "Horace, Ode VIII. Lib. IV. Imitated."
Foster Webb.
[Carlson 264] [Orig. "Telarius"]
10 (1740): 312. V: "Illustrissimae Principi Mariae ad Hassiam naviganti."
Robert Luck.
[Bond 96] [Orig. "R.L."]
10 (1740): 323-339. A: "Debates, &c. in the Senate of Lilliput [cont.]."
William Guthrie; revised by Samuel Johnson.
[Kaminski 41, 45]
10 (1740): 352. S: Paragraph announcing that a life of Sir Francis Drake would appear in the next issue.
Samuel Johnson.
[New Camb. Biblio. 1137; Fleeman 1: 53]
10 (1740): 353. S: Introductory note to verses ("Hicatissa to Milaria") re the death of Judith Meynel.
Samuel Johnson.
[Clifford 55: 216, 340 (n. 10)]
10 (1740): 363-385. A: "Debates in the Senate of Lilliput [cont.]."
William Guthrie; revised by Samuel Johnson.
[Kaminski 41, 45]
10 (1740): 389-396. A: "The Life of Sir Francis Drake."
Samuel Johnson.
[Courtney 11; Fleeman 1: 54]
10 (1740): 404-405. L: Letter enc. Spenserian imitation of Chaucer's Squire's Tale.
Samuel Boyse.
[Carlson 245] [Orig. "Alcaeus"]
10 (1740): 406-407. L: Letter enc. trans. of "Voltaire's Letter to his Prussian Majesty [Frederick II]."
Samuel Boyse.
[Carlson 245] [Orig. "Alcaeus"]
10 (1740): 407. V: "To the Right Honourable the Earl of Chesterfield. Ode ['Too anxious for the public weal']."
Robert Nugent, Earl Nugent.
[Ram 389]
10 (1740): 410. V: "AEnigma ['I Am a bitter, but a wholesome good']."
Sir John Hawkins.
[Davis 17, 378 (n. 19)] [Orig. "J.H."]
10 (1740): 419-439. A: "Debates in the Senate of Lilliput [cont.]."
William Guthrie; revised by Samuel Johnson.
[Kaminski 41, 45]
10 (1740): 443-447. A: "The Life of Admiral [Sir Francis] Drake [cont.]."
Samuel Johnson.
[Courtney 11; Fleeman 1: 54]
10 (1740): 459. V: "Mr Lyttleton to Mr [Stephen] Poyntz ['Oh thou, whose friendship is my joy and pride']."
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton.
[Bond 96]
10 (1740): 460. L: Letter enc. poem, "On a favourite Little Cur."
Rev. Richard Graves.
[Carlson 253] [Orig. "AE"]
10 (1740): 461. V: "Epilogue for the Mock Doctor."
David Garrick.
[Clifford 55: 235] [Orig. "G."]
10 (1740): 462-463. V: "A Riddle, Addressed to Mr J.G. ['Sagacious bard! whose piercing sight']."
Foster Webb.
[Carlson 264] [Orig. "Telarius"]
10 (1740): 463. V: "To the Author of the AEnigma, p. 410 [v. GM 10 (1740): 410, signed 'J.H.']. An extempore Answer ['"Want is the scorn of ev'ry wealthy fool"']."
Foster Webb.
[Carlson 264] [Orig. "Telarius"]
10 (1740): 463. V: "Cupid's Revenge. An Ode."
Samuel Boyse.
[Bond 90]
10 (1740): 464. V: "Musing by a River. To Mr Lerpiniere. By Mr Brown, copy'd from his Works."
Rev. Moses Browne.
[Bond 92]
10 (1740): 464. V: "An Epitaph upon the celebrated Claudy Phillips, Musician, who died very poor."
Samuel Johnson.
[Courtney 11; Fleeman 1: 54]> [Orig. "G."]
10 (1740): 475-500. A: "Debates, &c. in the Senate of Lilliput [cont.]."
William Guthrie; revised by Samuel Johnson.
[Kaminski 41, 45]
10 (1740): 509-515. A: "The Life of Sir Francis Drake [cont.]."
Samuel Johnson.
[Courtney 11; Fleeman 1: 54]
10 (1740) 515-516 L "On Mr W---d's [Ward's] Medicines."
Dr. John Swan.
Orig. "Amasius"
10 (1740): 518. V: "To the Memory of a Mother [Jane Hughes Brereton]."
Charlotte Brereton.
[Carlson 247] [Orig. "Carolina"]
10 (1740): 519. V: "Translation of a Welch Epitaph."
Samuel Johnson [?].
[Carlson 255 attributes it to Johnson; McAdam and Milne 367 considers "the probability . . . very strong"; Kaminski 231, n. 25, and Fleeman 1: 54 consider the item questionable.] [Orig. "I."]
10 (1740): 519. L: Letter enc. poem, "Upon Riddles ['Have you not known a small machine']."
William Shenstone [?].
[Bond 98] [Orig. "S.S."]
10 (1740): 519. V: "To Telarius, occasioned by several Riddles of his ['Too modest Bard! with enigmatic veil']."
Samuel Boyse.
[Pailler 2: 559] [Orig. "[Y]"]
10 (1740): 519. V: "The Ladies Petition."
Roger Long.
[Ram 391] [Orig. "R.L."]
10 (1740): 520. V: "Horace to a Cask of Wine, revers'd."
Samuel Boyse.
[Pailler 2: 559]
10 (1740): 521. V: "To the Author of the Verses mark'd [G] upon his Answer, to the Verses to Chloe [v. GM 10 (1740): 462] in p. 462 ['While artful you excuse the dang'rous fair']."
Samuel Boyse.
[Pailler 2: 559] [Orig. "[Y.]"]
10 (1740): 521. V: "Horace, Ode I. Book I."
Samuel Boyse.
[Bond 90]
10 (1740): 530-545. A: "Debates in the Senate of Lilliput [cont.]."
William Guthrie.
[Kaminski 41, 45; Bernard 67-P: 409, 412]
10 (1740): 565. V: "An Ode On the Birth of her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. By Mr Victor."
Benjamin Victor.
[Pailler 2: 600]
10 (1740): 565-566. V: "A God asserted from the works of Creation. An Ode."
Dr. John Swan.
[Carlson 263] [Orig. "Amasius"]
10 (1740): 566. V: "Occasioned by hearing Miss Lynch sing."
Elizabeth Carter.
[Carlson 250] [Orig. "Elisa"]
10 (1740): 567. V: "To Caelia's busk."
Samuel Boyse.
[Bond 90]
10 (1740): 579. A: Opening two paragraphs of "Debates in the Senate of Lilliput [cont.]."
Samuel Johnson [?].
[Kaminski 117]
10 (1740): 585-592. A: "Debates in the Senate of Lilliput [cont.]: naval estimates."
Samuel Johnson.
[Bernard 67-P: 408, 412- 415; Pailler 2: 681; Kaminski 117]
10 (1740): 593-596. A: "An Essay on Epitaphs."
Samuel Johnson.
[Courtney 11; Fleeman 1: 54]
10 (1740): 600-603. A: "Life of Admiral [Sir Francis] Drake [cont.]."
Samuel Johnson.
[Courtney 11; Fleeman 1: 54]
10 (1740): 612. A: "Some Account of the Life of John Philip Barretier."
Samuel Johnson.
[Courtney 11; Fleeman 1: 55]
10 (1740): 616. V: "Hor. Ode II. Book III. Imitated. By Mr. Titley."
Walter Titley.
[Bond 99]
10 (1740): 616. V: "Dr. Bentley's answer to the above [Walter Titley's imitation of Horace, Ode II, Book III]."
Rev. Richard Bentley.
[Bond 90]
10 (1740): 616. V: "The looking-glass ['from Mrs Dixons poems']."
S. Dixon.
[Bond 94]
10 (1740): 616. V: "On the New Fashioned Fans with Motto's. An Epigram."
S. Dixon.
[Bond 94]
10 (1740): 617. V: "To the jesuitical author of two spiteful sneers, on a worthy Commander [Sir John Norris, admiral of the fleet] and a Statesman [Sir Robert Walpole], sign'd Salop. By an honest Ploughman in the same country."
Richard Yate.
[Carlson 264] [Orig. "R. Yate"]
10 (1740): 618. V: Letter enc. the author's verses, "To Miss Charlotte Brereton."
Richard Yate.
[Carlson 264] [Orig. "R. Y---e"]
10 (1740): 620. V: "A Visit to Zink."
George Smith of Wigton.
[Pailler 2: 596; de Montluzin 01: 8] [Orig. "G.S."]

Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman's Magazine,
1731-1868: An Electronic Union List

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Volume 10 (1740)

Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1731-1868: An Electronic Union List

Emily Lorraine de Montluzin

Volume 10 (1740)

Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman's Magazine,
1731-1868: An Electronic Union List