Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman's Magazine,
1731-1868: An Electronic Union List
Emily Lorraine de Montluzin
Volume 12 (1742)
- 12 (1742): [iii]-iv.
S: "Preface."
Samuel Johnson.
[Courtney 13; Fleeman 1: 81]
- 12 (1742): 3-15.
A: "Debates in the Senate of Lilliput [cont.]."
Samuel Johnson.
[Courtney 5; Hoover 207- 208; Fleeman 1: 81]>
- 12 (1742): 45-46.
V: "The Moral Alchymist. Or, No accident unfortunate which is the
Consequence of Virtue. A Fable."
John Hawkesworth.
[Carlson 253] [Orig. "H. Greville"]
- 12 (1742): 46.
V: "Horace. Lib. I. Od. 34. paraphrastically
translated."
Foster Webb.
[Carlson 264] [Orig. "Telarius"]
- 12 (1742): 48.
V: Trans. of distich, "Non Orbis Gentem."
Rev. John Sackette.
[Bond 97] [Orig. "J. Sackette"]
- 12 (1742): 48. V:
Trans. of distich, "Non Orbis Gentem."
John Fletcher.
[Orig. "J. Fletcher of Chichester"; Biography Database CD1 lists several book subscriptions for John Fletcher, an attorney in Chichester.]
- 12 (1742): 53-55.
A: "Foreign History."
Samuel Johnson.
[Pailler 2: 681 (citing Greene 59: 82); Fleeman 1: 81]
- 12 (1742): 56.
R: "Foreign Books."
Samuel Johnson.
[Pailler 2: 681 (citing Greene 59: 83); Fleeman 1: 81]
- 12 (1742): 59-75.
A: "Debates in the Senate of Lilliput [cont.]."
Samuel Johnson.
[Courtney 5; Hoover 207- 208; Fleeman 1: 81]
- 12 (1742): 76. L: "A
Letter from G. Smith, Esq; concerning the Altar, &c. [including a Roman
hypocaust; v. 11 (1741): 650]."
George Smith of Wigton.
[de Montluzin 01: 6] [Orig. "G. Smith"]
- 12 (1742): 85.
S: Italicized remarks inserted into article entitled "Schemes for
preventing the Exportation of Wool [pp. 83-86]."
Samuel Johnson.
[Kaminski 151 and 240, n. 24; Fleeman 1: 81-82 considers the attribution uncertain.]
- 12 (1742): 86-89.
S: Italicized remarks inserted into article entitled "The Causes of
the Declension of the Woollen Trade [pp. 86-89]."
Samuel Johnson.
[Kaminski 240, n. 23]
- 12 (1742): 99-100.
V: "The Miserable Glutton, Or, The Pleasures of Sense, dependent on
Virtue. A Fable."
John Hawkesworth.
[Carlson 253] [Orig. "H. Greville"]
- 12 (1742): 102.
V: "Tom Southerne's Birth-day Dinner at Ld.
Orrery's [John Boyle, 5th Earl of Orrery]."
Alexander Pope.
[Bond 97]
- 12 (1742): 103.
V: "To Miss A----a M---a Tra---s. An Epistle from Scotland."
Charlotte Brereton.
[Carlson 247] [Orig. "Carolina"]
- 12 (1742): 106. L:
"Account of the Comet."
George Smith of Wigton.
[de Montluzin 01: 6] [Orig. "G. Smith"]
- 12 (1742): 110-111.
A: "Foreign Affairs."
Samuel Johnson.
[Greene 59: 82; Fleeman 1: 81]
- 12 (1742): 112.
R: "Foreign Books."
Samuel Johnson.
[Pailler 2: 681 (citing Greene 59: 83); Fleeman 1: 81]
- 12 (1742): 115-128.
A: "Debates in the Senate of Lilliput [cont.]."
Samuel Johnson.
[Courtney 5; Hoover 207- 208; Fleeman 1: 81]
- 12 (1742): 128-131.
A: "Memoirs of the Dutchess Dowager of
Marlborough."
Samuel Johnson.
[Courtney 12; Fleeman 1: 82]
- 12 (1742): 133-135.
A: Abridgement of David Arnold Conradus, The Art of
Deciphering.
Samuel Johnson [?].
[Pailler 2: 682 (citing Leed 60: 106-109) attributes the item to Johnson; Fleeman 1: 82 denies the attribution.]
- 12 (1742): 135-136. A:
"The learned Dr. [Thomas] Gale's Observations on the Roman Altar at Cast-
Steeds [Castlesteads] . . . communicated by G. Smith, Esq."
George Smith of Wigton.
[de Montluzin 01: 6]
- 12 (1742): 136.
S: Headnote to "Debate in Holland on augmenting their
Forces."
Samuel Johnson [?].
[Kaminski 148 and 239, n. 13; Leed 58: 99, n. 3, suggests that Johnson may also have written the condensation of two pamphlets on the subject ("Impartial Reflections" and "Remarks on the above Reflections"), pp. 136-139; Fleeman 1: 82, however, states, "It has nothing about SJ about it."] ]
- 12 (1742): 149-150.
S: "Observations on Scheme V. for registering Wool."
Samuel Johnson.
[Kaminski 152 and 240, n. 25; Fleeman 1: 82]
- 12 (1742): 150-152.
A: "Mr Glover's Speech before the House of
Commons."
Samuel Johnson [?].
[Leed 58: 99, n. 3; Fleeman 1: 82 considers it "just possible."]
- 12 (1742): 152.
S: Note re "Common Sense of the 27th. . .
."
Samuel Johnson.
[Kaminski 148 and 239, n. 13; Fleeman 1: 82 is less certain.]
- 12 (1742): 152.
S: Note re "The Craftsman of the same Date [the 27th]. .
. ."
Samuel Johnson.
[Kaminski 148 and 239, n. 13; Fleeman 1: 82 is less certain.]
- 12 (1742): 156.
V: "The Character and Part of the Speech of Leonidas, from the Dutch
of M. Van Haaren [William van Haren]."
Samuel Boyse.
[Carlson 246]
- 12 (1742): 157.
V: "A Speech from the Templum
Libertatis."
Dr. William [?] King.
[Pailler 2: 580]
- 12 (1742): 158. V:
"To Mrs Cibber, on her Acting at Dublin."
Edward Moore [?].
[Ram 404]
- 12 (1742): 161.
A: "Historical Chronicle [for March 1742]":
introductory sentence re Walpole's resignation ("As the late
Change in the Administration . . . ") in the entry for 6
March.
Samuel Johnson.
[Kaminski 148 and 239, n. 12; Fleeman 1: 83 is unconvinced.]
- 12 (1742): 165-166.
A: "Foreign Affairs."
Samuel Johnson.
[Pailler 2: 681 (citing Greene 59: 82); Fleeman 1: 81]
- 12 (1742): 167.
R: "Foreign Books."
Samuel Johnson.
[Pailler 2: 681 (citing Greene 59: 83); Fleeman 1: 81]
- 12 (1742): 171-181.
A: "Debates in the Senate of Lilliput [cont.]."
Samuel Johnson.
[Courtney 5; Hoover 207- 208; Fleeman 1: 81]
- 12 (1742): 185-186.
A: Abridgement of David Arnold Conradus, The Art of
Deciphering (cont.).
Samuel Johnson [?].
[Pailler 2: 682 (citing Leed 60: 106-109) attributes the item to Johnson; Fleeman 1: 82 denies the attribution.]
- 12 (1742): 204-206.
R: "A Review of the Account of the D[uche]ss of
Marlborough's Conduct, &c."
Not by Samuel Johnson.
[Courtney 12 and (provisionally) Pailler 2: 682 attribute it to Johnson; Leed 57-N: 212-213 and Kaminski 241, n. 33, rightly believe there is insufficient evidence for the attribution, which Vance 87: 64, 80 (n. 8) and Fleeman 1: 82 deny outright.]
- 12 (1742): 206-210.
A: "An Account of the Life of Peter Burman the late Professor of
History, Poetry, &c. in the University of Leiden."
Samuel Johnson.
[Courtney 12; Fleeman 1: 83]
- 12 (1742): 211. V:
Excerpt from William Broome's Seat of the War in Flanders ("Ah!
what new horrors rise? in deep array") enc. in a letter from one "P.V."
Rev. William Broome.
[Pailler 2: 563] [Orig. "Dr Broome"]
- 12 (1742): 212.
L: Letter enc. verses, "The Chinese
Style."
Rev. Moses Browne.
[Bond 92] [Orig. "M.B."]
- 12 (1742): 213-214.
V: "The Unhappy Debauchee, the Sequel to the Miserable
Glutton."
John Hawkesworth.
[Carlson 253] [Orig. "H. Greville" (in "Index to the Poetry" for the vol.)]
- 12 (1742): 214.
V: "Fons in Acta English'd. By T. Buxton."
T. M. Buxton.
[Carlson 249]
- 12 (1742): 223.
R: "Foreign Books."
Samuel Johnson.
[Pailler 2: 681 (citing Greene 59: 83); Fleeman 1: 81]
- 12 (1742): 227-240.
A: "Debates in the Senate of Lilliput [cont.]."
Samuel Johnson.
[Courtney 5; Hoover 207- 208; Fleeman 1: 81]
- 12 (1742): 241-242.
A: Abridgement of David Arnold Conradus, The Art of
Deciphering (cont.).
Samuel Johnson [?].
[Pailler 2: 682 (citing Leed 60: 106-109) attributes the item to Johnson; Fleeman 1: 82 denies the attribution.]
- 12 (1742): 242-245.
A: "The Life of [John Philip] Barretier [cont.]."
Samuel Johnson.
[Courtney 12; Fleeman 1: 55]
- 12 (1742): 256-258.
R: "A Review of the Account of the D[uche]ss of
Marlborough's Conduct, &c. [cont.]."
Not by Samuel Johnson.
[Courtney 12 and (provisionally) Pailler 2: 682 attribute it to Johnson; Leed 57-N: 212-213 and Kaminski 241, n. 33, rightly believe there is insufficient evidence for the attribution, which Vance 87: 64, 80 (n. 8) and Fleeman 1: 82 deny outright.]
- 12 (1742): 268-269.
V: "True Heroism, a Tale."
John Hawkesworth.
[Carlson 253] [Orig. "H. Greville"]
- 12 (1742): 269-270.
V: "Loch Rian."
Samuel Boyse.
[Bond 90]
- 12 (1742): 270.
V: "Extracts [in English] of Mr [Willem] Van Haren's Love
of Peace. A Poem."
Samuel Boyse.
[Carlson 246]
- 12 (1742): 279.
R: "Foreign Books."
Samuel Johnson.
[Pailler 2: 681 (citing Greene 59: 83); Fleeman 1: 81]
- 12 (1742): 283-287.
A: "Debates in the Senate of Lilliput [cont.]."
Samuel Johnson.
[Courtney 5; Hoover 207, 209; Fleeman 1: 81]
- 12 (1742): 297-300.
R: "A Review of the Account of the D[uche]ss of Marlborough's
Conduct, &c. [cont.]."
Not by Samuel Johnson.
[Courtney 12 and (provisionally) Pailler 2: 682 attribute it to Johnson; Leed 57-N: 212-213 and Kaminski 241, n. 33, rightly believe there is insufficient evidence for the attribution, which Vance 87: 64, 80 (n. 8) and Fleeman 1: 82 deny outright.] [Orig. "Britannicus"]
- 12 (1742): 318. P:
"The North and West Prospects of the famous Runic Obelisk at Bew-Castle in
Cumberland. Taken by G. Smith."
George Smith of Wigton.
[de Montluzin 01: 6]
- 12 (1742): 319. L:
"Further Observations on the Comet, 1742."
John Bulman.
[Orig. "J. Bulman"]
- 12 (1742): 320-323.
A: "Extract of the History of China [by Jean Baptiste Du
Halde]."
Samuel Johnson.
[Courtney 12; Fleeman 1: 83]
- 12 (1742): 324.
V: "The Triumphs of Nature. A Poem [re the garden of Sir Richard
Temple, Viscount Cobham, at Stowe]."
Samuel Boyse.
[Bond 91]
- 12 (1742): 328.
V: "The Batchelor's Address."
Thomas Beach [?].
[Carlson 244] [Orig. "Fido"]
- 12 (1742): 339-352.
A: "Debates in the Senate of Lilliput [cont.]."
Samuel Johnson.
[Courtney 5; Hoover 207, 209; Fleeman 1: 81]>
- 12 (1742): 353-357.
A: "Extract of the History of China [by Jean Baptiste Du
Halde]."
Samuel Johnson.
[Courtney 12; Fleeman 1: 83]
- 12 (1742): 360-362. A:
"From the Champion, July 3 [1742], No 411.
Reflections on some late Proceedings [in Parliament]."
James Ralph.
[Signed "Lilbourne," Ralph's habitual signature in the Champion; Battestin 89-a: 289, 319 notes that Ralph was the principal writer of the Champion from the beginning of 1741.] [Orig. "Lilbourne"]
- 12 (1742): 374-375. A:
"From the Champion, July 22 [1742]. Doubts relating to the
Integrity of our late Patriots and new Governors."
James Ralph.
[Signed "Lilbourne," Ralph's habitual signature in the Champion; Battestin 89-a: 289, 319 notes that Ralph was the principal writer of the Champion from the beginning of 1741.] [Orig. "Lilbourne"]
- 12 (1742): 380-382.
V: "Description of Lord Cobham's Garden ['The Triumphs
of Nature'; cont.; re the garden of Sir Richard Temple, Viscount Cobham, at
Stowe]."
Samuel Boyse.
[Bond 91]
- 12 (1742): 383.
L: Verses, "Ode addressed to M.
Voltaire occasioned by his Ode in praise of the Queen of Hungary," enc.
Samuel Boyse.
[Bond 90-91] ["[Y]"]
- 12 (1742): 383-384.
V: "Ode in praise of the British Nation. From the Dutch of M.
[Willem] Van Haren."
Samuel Boyse.
[Bond 91]
- 12 (1742): 384.
V: "A Prayer."
Rev. William Rider.
[Carlson 259] [Orig. "Philargyrus"]
- 12 (1742): 391.
R: "Foreign Books."
Samuel Johnson.
[Pailler 2: 681 (citing Greene 59: 83); Fleeman 1: 81]
- 12 (1742): 395-418.
A: "Debates in the Senate of Lilliput [cont.]."
Samuel Johnson.
[Courtney 5; Hoover 207, 209; Fleeman 1: 81]
- 12 (1742): 435-436.
V: "Description of Lord Cobham's Garden ['The Triumphs
of Nature,' cont.; re the garden of Sir Richard Temple, Viscount Cobham, at
Stowe]."
Samuel Boyse.
[Bond 91]
- 12 (1742): 436-437.
V: "Fido to Orinthia ['Thou tender stranger! whosoe'er thou
art']."
Thomas Beach [?].
[Carlson 244] [Orig. "Fido"]
- 12 (1742): 438. V:
Extract from The Complaint; or Night Thoughts ['Tir'd nature's
sweet restorer, balmy Sleep!']."
Edward Young.
[Ram 406]
- 12 (1742): 438. V:
"The Old Coachman. A New Ballad."
Sir Charles Hanbury Williams.
[Ram 406]
-
12
(1742)
438-439
V
"In Praise of
Coffee. From the French of M. Fuselier."
Rev. Edward Cobden [?].
Orig. "Miso"
- 12 (1742): 445-446.
A: "Foreign History."
Samuel Johnson.
[Pailler 2: 681 (citing Greene 59: 82); Fleeman 1: 81]
- 12 (1742): 447.
R: "Foreign Books."
Samuel Johnson.
[Pailler 2: 681 (citing Greene 59: 83); Fleeman 1: 81]
- 12 (1742): 451-471.
A: "Debates in the Senate of Lilliput [cont.]."
Samuel Johnson.
[Courtney 5; Hoover 207, 209; Fleeman 1: 81]
- 12 (1742): 473-475.
A: Abridgement of David Arnold Conradus, The Art of
Deciphering (cont.).
Samuel Johnson.
[Leed 60: 106-109 attributes the item to Johnson; Fleeman 1: 82 denies the attribution.]
- 12 (1742): 484-486.
A: "Extract of the History of China [by Jean Baptiste Du
Halde; conc.]."
Samuel Johnson.
[Courtney 12; Bloom 265; Pailler 2: 682; Fleeman 1: 83]
- 12 (1742): 492.
V: "The Church. A Religious Satire."
Rev. William Rider.
[Carlson 259] [Orig. "Philargyrus"]
- 12 (1742): 493.
V: "To Quindecimnatus."
Constantia Grierson.
[Pailler 2: 575] [Orig. "Constantia"]
- 12 (1742): 493.
V: "Song by Mr. Ingles ['From clime to clime my heart does
rove']."
A. Ingles.
[Carlson 255]
- 12 (1742): 507-525.
A: "Debates in the Senate of Lilliput [cont.]."
Samuel Johnson.
[Courtney 5; Hoover 207, 209; Fleeman 1: 81]
- 12 (1742): 529. P:
"The South and East Prospects of the famous Runic Obelisk at Bew-Castle in
Cumberland. By G. Smith, 1741."
George Smith of Wigton.
[de Montluzin 01: 6]
- 12 (1742): 532. V:
"On Dr Packe. By the Rev. Mr Sackette."
Rev. John Sackette.
[Orig. "Rev. Mr Sackette"]
- 12 (1742): 540.
V: "Venus and Cupid. A Dialogue. In imitation of the Greek of
Lucian."
Rev. William Saunders.
[Carlson 260]
- 12 (1742): 543.
V: "To the honourable William Farmor, Esq. By Mr Nixon ['As Venus
late young Farmor view'd']."
Rev. ----- Nixon.
[Pailler 2: 584]
- 12 (1742): 551.
R: "Foreign Books."
Samuel Johnson.
[Pailler 2: 681 (citing Greene 59: 83); Fleeman 1: 81]
- 12 (1742): 555-573.
A: "Debates in the Senate of Lilliput [cont.]."
Samuel Johnson.
[Courtney 5; Hoover 207, 209; Fleeman 1: 81]
- 12 (1742): 573-576.
A: Trans. of "Extract of the exact Description of the
House of Ice, erected at St Petersburgh in January 1740, and of its
Furniture. By George Wolfgang Kraffett. . . ."
John Hawkesworth [?].
[Kaminski 244, n. 69]
- 12 (1742): 598. V:
"Notus and Zephyrus. A Dialogue, From the Greek of Lucian."
Rev. William Saunders.
[Carlson 260]
- 12 (1742): 604-606.
A: "Foreign History."
Samuel Johnson.
[Pailler 2: 681 (citing Greene 59: 82); Fleeman 1: 81]
- 12 (1742): 607.
R: "Foreign Books."
Samuel Johnson.
[Pailler 2: 681 (citing Greene 59: 83); Fleeman 1: 81]
- 12 (1742): 611-632.
A: "Debates in the Senate of Lilliput [cont.]."
Samuel Johnson.
[Courtney 5; Hoover 207, 210; Fleeman 1: 81]
- 12 (1742): 633-635.
A: "The Life of Dr [Thomas] Sydenham."
Samuel Johnson.
[Courtney 12; Fleeman 1: 83]
- 12 (1742): 636-639.
A: "Proposals for Printing, by Subscription, the Two first Volumes
of Bibliotheca Harleiana: Or, a Catalogue of the Library of the Late Earl of
Oxford."
Samuel Johnson.
[Courtney 12; Fleeman 1: 84]
- 12 (1742): 654.
V: "In tempesta nocte insomnis pro se et amicis ita
precatur."
Robert Luck.
[Carlson 257] [Orig. "R.L."]
- 12 (1742): 654.
V: "Artomelum; vulgo Apple-Pye."
Robert Luck.
[Carlson 257]
- 12 (1742): 656 [misnumbered as
634].
V: "Ode to the Queen of Hungary: From the Dutch of Van
Haaren [Willem van Haren]."
Samuel Boyse.
[Carlson 246]
- 12 (1742): 656 [misnumbered as 634].
V: Excerpt from The Complaint; or Night Thoughts
['Where is that thirst, that avarice of time']."
Edward Young.
[Ram 409]
- 12 (1742): 660-661.
A: "Foreign History."
Samuel Johnson.
[Courtney 12; Bloom 265; Pailler 2: 681 (citing Greene 59: 82); Fleeman 1: 81]
- 12 (1742): 663.
R: "Foreign Books."
Samuel Johnson.
[Pailler 2: 682 (citing Greene 59: 83); Fleeman 1: 81]
- 12 (1742): 665-692.
A: "Debates in the Senate of Lilliput [cont.]."
Samuel Johnson.
[Courtney 5; Hoover 207, 210; Fleeman 1: 81]