Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman's Magazine,
1731-1868: An Electronic Union List
Emily Lorraine de Montluzin
Volume 17 (1747)
- 17 (1747): [iv]. V:
"The Vision. A Poem. Address'd to S. Urban, on completing his
Seventeenth Volume."
John Hawkesworth.
[Abbott 82: 106]
- 17 (1747): 24-26.
A: "An Essay on Milton's Imitation of the
Moderns."
William Lauder.
[Clifford 75: 343] [Orig. "W.L."]
- 17 (1747): 36. L:
"Mr Smith's reply to T.B. [Theophilus Buckeridge] concerning the
monks."
George Smith of Wigton.
[Smith makes reference to his own signed article in GM 16 (1746): 465-466.]
- 17 (1747): 37.
L: Verses, "The Ant's Philosophy" and "The last Riddle explain'd,"
enc.
John Hawkesworth.
[Carlson 254] [Orig. "J. H. Stratfordiensis"]
- 17 (1747): 42.
V: Verses, "Script. a Mich. Bold, paolo ante
obitum," enc. in letter by "T.H."
Rev. Samuel Bold.
[Pailler 2: 558]
- 17 (1747): 60. P:
"[Plate:] The Figure of a Stone found in Cast steeds [Castlesteads] Garden
[Cumbria], near the grand Fort Petrianis."
George Smith of Wigton.
[de Montluzin 01: 9]
- 17 (1747): 62-63.
L: "The Monks defended [v. letters by George Smith of Wigton in
GM 16 (1746): 646 and 17 (1747): 36 re a monastic inscription]."
Theophilus Buckeridge.
[Sherbo 84: 232] ["T.B."]
- 17 (1747): 64-65. A:
"An Extract of a Letter to Dr [Stephen] Hales, from the Rt Rev. the Lord
Bishop of Cloyne, dated Jan. 17, 1746-7, . . . containing a Prescription for the
Cure of the Distemper which rages among the Horned Cattle. . . ."
George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne.
[Authorship disclosed in title]
- 17 (1747): 67-68. L:
"Milton cleared of imitating the Moderns."
Rev. Richard Richardson.
[Marcuse 187, n. 32] [Orig. "Miltonicus"]
-
17
(1747)
78
A
"Reply to A.B. [re the creation of insects, particularly
lice]."
Rev. Edward Bate.
Orig. "E.B."; dated Seighford, Staffs., where Rev. Edward Bate was vicar
- 17 (1747): 79-80. A:
Fool, No. 94 (from Daily Gazetteer): "On the
Suspicious Husband [by Benjamin Hoadly]"; re David Garrick, James Quin,
and Spranger Barry.
William Horsley.
[Haig 21; Battestin 89-a: 428]
- 17 (1747): 82-86.
A: "An Essay on Milton's Imitation of the Moderns
[cont.]."
William Lauder.
[Clifford 75: 343] [Orig. "W.L."]
- 17 (1747): 86. S:
Editorial note inviting readers to participate in a competition to produce
a translation in Miltonic verse of Hugo Grotius's Adamus Exsul.
Edward Cave.
[Orig. "E. Cave"]
- 17 (1747): 94.
V: Verses, "E Pluribus Unum [signed 'J. Sackette']," "In laudem
Philippi de Comines," and "In Artem disticho graphicam [signed 'J.S.'],"
enc.
Rev. John Sackette.
[Correction for Pailler 2: 591, which attributes only the first of the three verse contributions to Sackette] [Orig. "J. Sackette" (otherwise "J.S.")]
- 17 (1747): 95.
V: "The Storm. A Meditation suggested in the late tempestuous
Weather."
John Duick.
[Carlson 253] [Orig. "Sylvius"]
- 17 (1747): 95.
V: "Epistle to a learned Friend going to
travel."
John Duick.
[Bond 94] [Orig. "Sylvius"]
- 17 (1747): 133-140.
L: "Characters of [Benjamin Hoadly's] the Suspicious
Husband [reviewed]."
John Hawkesworth.
[Abbott 82: 95]
- 17 (1747): 140-142. L:
"Electrical Experiments proposed."
David Stephenson.
[Orig. "D. Stephenson"; dated Office of Ordnance in the Tower, London; Biography Database CD1 lists a 1755 book subscription for a David Stephenson of "Tower, London."]
- 17 (1747): 146.
V: "Hor. Lib. IV. Ode VII. Imitated."
John Ryland [?].
[Bond 97] [Orig. "J.R."]
-
17
(1747)
180
L
"Two interpretations of a Roman
inscription [found at Castlesteads ('Cast Steeds') Garden]."
Rev. Samuel Pegge the Elder.
GM 66-ii (1796): 979 Orig. "Paul Gemsage"
- 17 (1747): 183. L:
"Electrical experiments proposed."
David Stephenson.
[Orig. "D. Stephenson"; dated Office of Ordnance in the Tower, London; Biography Database CD1 lists a 1755 book subscription for a David Stephenson of "Tower, London."]
- 17 (1747): 183-184. A:
"Electrical Problems p. 16 answer'd [v. GM 17 (1747): 15-
16]."
John Smeaton.
[Orig. "J. Smeaton"]
- 17 (1747): 189. A:
"Further Charge against Milton [furnished by W.L.]."
William Lauder.
[Marcuse 184, n. 21]
- 17 (1747): 190-191.
V: "Rev. Mr [Henry] Layng's Translation [of a passage fom
Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered; printed on the left]."
Rev. Henry Layng the Elder.
[Pailler 2: 580]
- 17 (1747): 190-191. V:
"Tasso's Jerusalem [Jerusalem Delivered]. Book 16. . . . By Mr
Fairfax [printed on the right; 'When she came home, she call'd, with outcries
shrill']."
Edward Fairfax.
[BMGC]
- 17 (1747): 191.
V: "An Epigram by the late ingenious Dr Broome,
occasion'd by some ridiculous Verses made by a Physician in praise
of a deceased Patient."
Rev. William Broome.
[Pailler 2: 563]
- 17 (1747): 194.
V: "On Lord Lovat's Execution."
Samuel Johnson.
[New Camb. Biblio. 1138; Fleeman 1: 147]
- 17 (1747): 194.
V: "Ad Uxorem."
Rev. John Sackette.
[Carlson 260] [Orig. "J, Sackette"]
- 17 (1747): 194.
V: "To the Learned Author of the Sella
Estoniana."
John Duick.
[Pailler 2: 573] [Orig. "J.D."]
- 17 (1747): 211-212. L:
"Of poets imitating one another [re Masenius and Milton]."
George Smith of Wigton.
[de Montluzin 01: 9] [Orig. "G.S."]
- 17 (1747): 225-227. L:
"Electricity whence, and how applicable."
David Stephenson.
[Orig. "D. Stephenson"; dated Office of Ordnance in the Tower, London; Biography Database CD1 lists a 1755 book subscription for a David Stephenson of "Tower, London."]
- 17 (1747): 239.
V: "A Translation of the Latin Epitaph on Sir Thomas
Hanmer."
Samuel Johnson.
[Reading 656, McAdam and Milne 80, New Camb. Biblio. 1138, and Fleeman 1: 147 accept this as Johnson's; Courtney 21 and Pailler 2: 578 provisionally accept Johnson's authorship.] [Orig. "***."]
- 17 (1747): 239.
V: "To Miss ----- on her giving the Author a Gold and Silk Net-work
Purse, of her own weaving."
Samuel Johnson.
[Reading 656; McAdam and Milne 80, 82; New Camb. Biblio. 1138; and Fleeman 1: 147 accept this as Johnson's; Courtney 21 and Pailler 2: 579 provisionally accept Johnson's authorship.] [Orig. "***."]
- 17 (1747): 239-240.
V: "Stella in Mourning."
Samuel Johnson.
[Reading 656; McAdam and Milne 80, 82; New Camb. Biblio. 1138; and Fleeman 1: 147 accept this as Johnson's; Courtney 21 and Pailler 2: 579 provisionally accept Johnson's authorship.] [Orig. "***."]
- 17 (1747): 240.
V: "The Winter's Walk."
Samuel Johnson.
[Reading 656; McAdam and Milne 80, 83; New Camb. Biblio. 1138; and Fleeman 1: 147 accept this as Johnson's; Courtney 21 and Pailler 2: 579 provisionally accept Johnson's authorship.] [Orig. "***."]
- 17 (1747): 240.
V: "An Ode ['Stern winter now, by spring repress'd']."
Samuel Johnson.
[Reading 656; McAdam and Milne 80, 84; New Camb. Biblio. 1138; and Fleeman 1: 147 accept this as Johnson's; Courtney 21 and Pailler 2: 579 provisionally accept Johnson's authorship.] [Orig. "***."]
- 17 (1747): 240.
V: "To Lyce, an elderly Lady."
Samuel Johnson.
[Reading 656; McAdam and Milne 80, 86; New Camb. Biblio. 1138; and Fleeman 1: 147 accept this as Johnson's; Courtney 21 and Pailler 2: 579 provisionally accept Johnson's authorship.] [Orig. "***."]
- 17 (1747): 241.
L: Three poems by the author, "The Expostulation. To Miss H---.
After a vernal Morning Walk, 1738 [signed 'R']"; "To a Wax Taper. A Nocturnal
Ode [signed 'R']"; and "Time inexorable; and the Remedy [signed 'R']," enc.
John Ryland [?].
[Reading 656 and Bond 97] [Orig. "R."]
- 17 (1747): 242.
V: "Description of Paradise. Translated from [Latinj verses by
Jacobus Masenius in] Jan. Magazine. p. 25."
George Smith of Wigton.
[Pailler 2: 596; de Montluzin 01: 8] [Orig. "G.S."]
- 17 (1747): 243.
V: "The Experiment. A Tale."
John Hawkesworth.
[Carlson 254] [Orig. "Mr Greville"]
- 17 (1747): 244.
V: "The Lord's Prayer paraphras'd."
Dr. Mark Akenside [?].
[Pailler 2: 554 attributes the poem to Akenside; Carlson 243 contends that Akenside is not the author.] [Orig. "Britannicus"]
- 17 (1747): 259-263. L:
"Description of some new Electrical Machines."
David Stephenson.
[Orig. "D. Stephenson"; dated Office of Ordnance (located in the Tower of London); Biography Database CD1 lists a 1755 book subscription for a David Stephenson of "Tower, London."]
-
17
(1747)
264-265
L
"Of Burial Garlands."
Edward Steele.
Orig. "E.S."; dated Bromley, Kent, whence Steele corresponded with the GM in 1750
- 17 (1747): 278-279.
L: "Milton oblig'd to Modern Poets."
Rev. William Brakenridge.
[Clifford 75: 343] [Orig. "W.B."]
- 17 (1747): 285-286.
L: "Milton oblig'd to Grotius."
William Lauder.
[Clifford 75: 343]
- 17 (1747): 289.
V: "Translation of the Distich from Ovid, p.
240 [v. GM 17 (1747): 240]."
Robert Luck.
[Carlson 257] [Orig. "R.L."]
- 17 (1747): 290. V:
"Fire, Water, Woman. Vander Bruin revers'd. By a Lady."
Matthew Prior.
[Ram 444] [Orig. "Biddy Bellair"]
- 17 (1747): 290.
V: "A Song ['Not the soft sighs of vernal
gales']."
Samuel Johnson [?].
[McAdam and Milne 367; Fleeman 1: 147]
- 17 (1747): 291.
V: "Translation of the Epigram on Marcus, p. 194 [v. GM 17
(1747): 194]."
Robert Luck.
[Pailler 2: 582] [Orig. "R.L."]
- 17 (1747): 292.
V: "Extract from Honour. A Satire. By Mr
Whitehead."
Paul Whitehead.
[Pailler 2: 602]
- 17 (1747): 322-324.
L: "Milton defended against Mr W.L. [William Lauder]."
Rev. Richard Richardson.
[Clifford 75: 343-344] [Orig. "R.R."]
- 17 (1747): 337.
V: "Life. An Ode."
John Hawkesworth.
[Carlson 254] [Orig. "Mr Greville" (in "Index to the Poetry" for the vol.)]
- 17 (1747): 338.
V: "Hor. Lib. II. Ode III."
John Ryland [?].
[Bond 97] [Orig. "J.R."]
- 17 (1747): 338. V:
"Inscription to be engrav'd on the Monument of the Lady of the Hon. George
Lyttelton, Esq. ['Made to engage all hearts, and charm all eyes']."
George, 1st Baron Lyttelton.
[Ram 444]
- 17 (1747): 340.
V: "Chamont and Honorius."
John Hawkesworth.
[Carlson 254] [Orig. "Mr Greville" (in "Index to the Poetry" for the vol.)]
-
17
(1747)
368
L
"Letter of a Persian Spy" enc.
Samuel Boyse.
Orig. "[Y.]"
- 17 (1747): 384-385. A:
"A Journey up to Cross-fell Mountain [Cumbria]."
George Smith of Wigton.
[de Montluzin 01: 9]
-
17
(1747)
393
V
"Translation of the Epigram from Ovid."
John Loveday the Elder [?].
Orig. "Academicus"; Kuist 82: 87-88 lists multiple attributions to John Loveday the Elder (1711-89) and John Loveday the Younger (1742- 1809) under the pseudonym "Academicus" beginning in 1777. Since the Nichols family annotators who compiled what is now the Kuist list made no effort at a systematic attribution of items in the GM before vol. 53-i (1783), the absence of earlier attributions to Loveday the Elder under the pseudonym "Academicus" does not militate against his possible authorship of items so signed in earlier volumes. Starting with 1773 there is no doubt of Loveday the Elder's or the Younger's authorship of items signed "Academicus," as by that time those signatures are interspersed with items signed "Scrutator," another favorite pseudonym of both men.
- 17 (1747): 394-395.
V: "The Death of Arachne: An Heroi-comi-tragic-Poem."
John Hawkesworth.
[Carlson 254] [Orig. "Mr Greville" (in "Index to the Poetry" for the vol.)]
- 17 (1747): 395.
L: Letter enclosing the author's verses, "On some late
Attempts to depreciate Milton."
Samuel Boyse.
[Pailler 2: 561] [Orig. "[Y]"]
- 17 (1747): 404.
A: Advertisement for Hugo Grotius's Adamus Exsul.
Samuel Johnson.
[Carlson 22; Fleeman 1: 147-148 considers this attribution "an unprovable possibility."]
- 17 (1747): 423-424. L:
"Milton no Plagiary."
Rev. Henry Fricker.
[Marcuse 188, n. 36] [Orig. "C.B."]
- 17 (1747): 426. L:
"Letter of Archbishop Leighton [Robert Leighton, Archbishop of Glasgow]"
enc.
Philip Doddridge.
[Orig. "P. Doddridge"]
- 17 (1747): 442.
V: "The Origin of Doubt."
John Hawkesworth.
[Carlson 254] [Orig. "Mr Greville" (in "Index to the Poetry" for the vol.)]
- 17 (1747): 442.
V: "A Maid's Apology at Forty."
Mary Masters.
[Carlson 257] [Orig. "Maria"]
- 17 (1747): 443. V: "A
Pastoral. Diggon Davy, and Colin Clout."
Rev. William Dodd.
[Ram 446]
- 17 (1747): 443.
V: Dr. Beaumont's "In venerabilem S. S. Eucharistiae
Institutionem, Plausus Hymnicus," enc. in a letter signed "R."
Rev. Joseph Beaumont.
[Pailler 2: 557]
- 17 (1747): 444.
V: "Lady Winchelsea's Answer [to Pope's verses, 'To Lady Winchelsea,
occasiond by four Verses in the Rape of the Lock']."
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchelsea.
[Pailler 2: 602]
- 17 (1747): 444. V:
"To Lady Winchelsea, occasiond by four Verses in the Rape
of the Lock. By Mr Pope. (not in his works) ['In vain you boast poetic
names of yore']."
Alexander Pope.
[Pailler 2: 588]
- 17 (1747): 444. V:
"New Night-Thoughts on Death. A Parody. By Mr Wh***."
William Whitehead.
[Ram 446]
- 17 (1747): 472-473.
L: "[Review of Racine's] Two Poetical Epistles, on Original Sin, and
its consequences."
John Hawkesworth.
[Abbott 82: 214, n. 19] [Orig. "H.H."]
- 17 (1747): 485. L:
"Masenius, &c. found at Louvain."
Joseph Berington.
[Marcuse 188] [Orig. "J. B--- n"]
- 17 (1747): 489-490.
V: "The Accident; a Pastoral Essay."
John Hawkesworth.
[Carlson 254] [Orig. "Mr Greville" (in "Index to the Poetry" for the vol.)]
- 17 (1747): 490.
V: "Britannia revived; the hint suggested by Mr R.Y."
Richard Yate.
[Pailler 2: 603] [Orig. "R.Y."]
- 17 (1747): 490.
V: "To the ingenious Author of the Death of
Arachne."
Samuel Boyse.
[Pailler 2: 561] [Orig. "Y."]
- 17 (1747): 490-491.
V: "Prologue spoken by Mr [David] Garrick. At the opening of Drury-
lane Theatre 1747."
Samuel Johnson.
[Carlson 256; Fleeman 1: 148]
- 17 (1747): 493.
V: "To a Physician [trans. from Boileau]."
Joseph Berington.
[Pailler 2: 557] [Orig. "J. Berington"]
- 17 (1747): 522 [misnumbered as 582]-
525. A: "A Journey to Caudebec [Caldbeck] Fells
[Cumbria], with a Map and Description of the same."
George Smith of Wigton.
[de Montluzin 01: 9-10]
- 17 (1747): 536. V:
"An Ode to Hope."
John Hawkesworth [?].
[Carlson 254] [Orig. "Philo" (or "Mr Greville", as listed in "Index to the Poetry" for the vol.)]
- 17 (1747): 539.
V: "The dead Dormouse to its sorrowing
Mistress."
Rev. Stephen Barrett.
[Osborn 652]
- 17 (1747): 539. V:
"To the Gentleman that's in love with a married Lady ['Why will you erring
fix your worthy mind']."
Mary Masters.
[Pailler 2: 583] [Orig. "Maria"]
- 17 (1747): 546.
A: "Foreign History."
Samuel Johnson.
[Bloom 265; Pailler 2: 684; Fleeman 1: 148 distrusts this attribution on stylistic grounds.]
- 17 (1747): 562-564.
A: "Sir Thomas De Veil's Life."
Samuel Johnson [?].
[Carlson 132; Fleeman 1: 148 consuiders this attribution "unconvincing."]
- 17 (1747): 567.
V: "[Verse] Extract from [Jacobus] Masenius" trans.
Joseph Berington.
[Carlson 244] [Orig. "J. Berington"]
- 17 (1747): 578-579. A:
"From the Jacobite Journal, No 1 [5 Dec. 1747]. By
John Trott-Plaid, Esq. ['Jacobitism a mystery; various conjectures on the sudden
appearance of that party']."
Henry Fielding.
[Jacobite's Journal 90-97]
- 17 (1747): 583. A:
"Wadd mines explain'd."
George Smith of Wigton [?].
[Author gives a brief account of the black lead mines in Cumbria, noting that he had intended to send the GM a lengthy description but will refrain from doing so until viewing them himself. George Smith of Wigton contributes just such an account to GM 21 (1751): 51- 53, reporting on an excursion he made to the black lead mines in Aug. 1749.]
- 17 (1747): 585.
V: "To Wisdom. A nocturnal Ode."
Elizabeth Carter.
[Carlson 250]
- 17 (1747): 587.
L: Trans. of Pope's distich on Sir Isaac Newton enc.
Joseph Berington.
[Pailler 2: 557] [Orig. "J. Berington"]
- 17 (1747): 587.
V: "On Jeffrey. From Martial, L. vii, Ep. 10."
Joseph Berington.
[Pailler 2: 557] [Orig. "J. Berington"]
- 17 (1747): 588.
V: Epigram from Buchanan.
Joseph Berington.
[Carlson 245] [Orig. "J. Be"]
- 17 (1747): 588.
V: "Winter. An Ode."
John Hawkesworth.
[Carlson 254] [Orig. "Mr Greville" (in "Index to the Poetry" for the vol.)]
- 17 (1747): 600. V:
"To the Memory of Captain [Thomas] Grenville, of the Defiance Man
of War, who was slaon in the Engagement with the French Fleet, May 3,
1747."
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton.
[Orig. "Mr Lyttelton"]