CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF DR. JOHNSON'S WORKS.

The works to which an asterisk (*) is affixed are those of which Dr. Johnson acknowledged the authorship to his friends, while those marked by a dagger (†) are ascertained to be his by internal evidence. In this list, drawn up by the biographer, the poetical works are not included. These consist of a Latin translation of Pope's Messiah, London, and The Vanity of Human Wishes, imitated from Juvenal; a prologue on the opening of Drury Lane Theatre by Mr. Garrick: and Irene, a tragedy, besides some minor pieces.

1735. Abridgment and Translation of Lobo's Voyage to Abyssinia.*

1738. Part of a Translation of Father Paul Sarpi's His

tory of the Council of Trent.*

[N. B. As this work, after some sheets were printed, suddenly stopped, I know not whether any part of it is now to be found.]

FOR THE 'GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.' Preface. t

Life of Father Paul.*

1739. A complete Vindication of the Licencer of the

1740.

1741.

1742.

Stage from the malicious and scandalous asper- 1744. sions of Mr. Brooke, author of Gustavus Vasa.* Marmor Norfolciense; or, an Essay on an ancient prophetical inscription in monkish rhyme, lately discovered near Lynne in Norfolk: by Probus Britannicus.*

FOR THE 'GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE,'
Life of Boerhaave.
Address to the Reader.t

Appeal to the Public in behalf of the Editor. †
Considerations on the case of Dr. Trapp's Ser-
mons: a plausible attempt to prove that an
author's work may be abridged without injuring
his property.*

FOR THE 'GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.'

Preface.t

Life of Admiral Drake.*

Life of Admiral Blake.*

Life of Philip Barretier.*

Essay on Epitaphs.*

FOR THE 'GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.

Preface.

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

Debate on the Humble Petition and Advice of the
Rump Parliament to Cromwell in 1657, to assume
the Title of King: abridged, methodised, and
digested.t

Translation of Abbé Guyon's dissertation on the
Amazons.t

Translation of Fontenelle's Panegyric on Dr.
Morin.t

FOR THE 'GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.'

Preface. t

Essay on the Account of the Conduct of the
Duchess of Marlborough.*

An Account of the Life of Peter Burman.*

The Life of Sydenham, afterwards prefixed to Dr.
Swan's Edition of his Works.*

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

Abridgment, entitled Foreign History. ↑

Essay on the description of China from the French of Du Halde. t

1743. Dedication to Dr. Mead of Dr. James's Medicinal

Dictionary.t

1

FOR THE 'GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.'
Preface.t

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

Considerations on the dispute between Crousax
and Warburton on Pope's Essay on Man.t
A Letter, announcing that the Life of Mr. Savage
was speedily to be published by a person who
was favoured with his confidence. t

Advertisement for Osborne concerning the Har
leian Catalogue. t
Life of Richard Savage.*

Preface to the Harleian Miscellany."

FOR THE 'GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.'
Preface. t

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.*

1747. Plan for a Dictionary of the English Language, addressed to Philip Dormer, Earl of Chesterfield.*

FOR THE 'GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.'

1748. Life of Roscommon.*

Foreign History, November.t

FOR MR. DODSLEY'S 'PRECEPTOR."
Preface.*

Vision of Theodore the Hermit.*

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

Letter in 'The General Advertiser' to excite the attention 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.*

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

1751. Life of Cheynel, in the Miscellany called 'The
Student.'*

Letter for Lauder, addressed to the Rev. Dr. John
Douglas, acknowledging his fraud concerning
Milton, in terms of suitable Contrition.*
Dedication to the Earl of Middlesex, of Mrs.
Charlotte Lennox's 'Female Quixote.'†

1753. Dedication to John, Earl of Orrery, of Shakspeare
Illustrated, by Mrs. Charlotte Lennox.*
During this and the following year he wrote and
gave to his much-loved friend Dr. Bathurst, the
Papers in 'The Adventurer,' signed T.*
Life of Edward Cave in 'The Gentleman's Maga-
A Dictionary, with a Grammar and History of the
English Language.*

1754.

1755.

zine.'*

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

An Account of an Attempt to ascertain the Longitude at Sea, by an exact Theory of the Variations of the Magnetical Needle, with a Table of the Variations at the most remarkable Cities in Europe, from the year 1660 to 1780.* This he wrote for Mr. Zachariah Williams, an ingenious ancient Welsh gentleman, father of Mrs. Ann 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.t

meeting. It is printed in 'The Gentleman's Magazine' for October 1785.†

The first two paragraphs of the Preface to Sir William Chambers's Designs of Chinese Buildings, etc.*

1758. 'The Idler,' which began April 5, in this year, and was continued till April 5, 1760.*

1756. An Abridgment of his Dictionary.*

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 1760. Address of the Painters to George III. on his

An Essay on the Bravery of the English Common Soldiers was added to it when published in volumes.*

1759. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, a Tale.*

Advertisement for the proprietors of The Idler'
against certain persons who pirated those
Papers as they came out singly, in a News-
paper called 'The Universal Chronicle, or
Weekly Gazette.'t

For Mrs. Charlotte Lennox's English Version
of Brumoy,- ' A Dissertation on the Greek
Comedy,' and the General Conclusion of the
Book. f

Introduction to 'The World Displayed,' a collec-
tion of Voyages and Travels.*

Three letters in 'The Gazetteer,' concerning the best plan for Blackfriars Bridge.*

Accession to the Throne.t

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.*

IN THE 'LITERARY MAGAZINE, OR
UNIVERSAL REVIEW,'

Which began in January 1756, his Original
Essays are-

The Preliminary Address. t
An Introduction to the Political State of Great
Britain. †

Remarks on the Militia Bill. f

Observations on his Britannic Majesty's Treaties
with the Empress of Russia and the Landgrave
of Hesse Cassel. t

Observations on the Present State of Affairs. ↑
Memoirs of Frederick 111. King of Prussia.t
In the same Magazine his Reviews are of the
following books :-'Birch's History of the Royal
Society.''Browne's Christian Morals.'-'War-
ton's Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope,
vol. i.''Hampton's Translation of Polybius.'-
Sir Isaac Newton's arguments in proof of a
Deity.'-'Borlase's History of the Isles of Scilly.'
-'Home's Experiments on Bleaching.
'Browne's History of Jamaica.'- 'Hales on
Distilling Sea Waters, Ventilators in Ships, and
curing an ill taste in Milk.'-'Lucas's Essay on
Waters.''Keith's Catalogue of the Scottish
Bishops.''Philosophical Transactions, vol.
xlix.' 'Miscellanies, by Elizabeth Harrison.'-

Dedication of Baretti's Italian and English Dic-
tionary to the Marquis of Abreu, then Envoy-
Extraordinary from Spain at the Court of
Great Britain.

Review in 'The Gentleman's Magazine,' of Mr.
Tytler's acute and able Vindication of Mary
Queen of Scots.*

Introduction to the Proceedings of the Com-
mittee for Clothing the French Prisoners.*

1761. Preface to 'Rolt's Dictionary of Trade and Com

merce.

Corrections and Improvements for Mr. Gwyn the Architect's Pamphlet, entitled, 'Thoughts on the Coronation of George III.' *

1762. Dedication to the King, of the Rev. Dr. Kennedy's 'Complete System of Astronomical Chronology, unfolding the Scriptures,' 4to edition.* Preface to the Catalogue of the Artists' Exhibition.t

1763. Character of Collins in 'The Poetical Calendar,' published by Fawkes and Woty.*

Dedication to the Earl of Shaftesbury of the edition of Roger Ascham's English Works, published by the Rev. Mr. Bennet.*

The Life of Ascham, also prefixed to that
edition.*

Review of 'Telemachus,' a Masque, by the Rev.
George Graham, of Eton College, in 'The
Critical Review.'*

Dedication to the Queen, of Mr. Hoole's 'Trans-
lation of Tasso.'*

Account of the Detection of the Imposture of the Cock Lane Ghost, published in the Newspapers and 'Gentleman's Magazine.'*

Poem,' in 'The London Chronicle.'*

'Evans's Map, and Account of the Middle Colo- 1764. Part of a Review of Grainger's 'Sugar Cane, a
nies in America.' - 'The Cadet, a Millitary
Treatise.''The Conduct of the Ministry re-
lating to the present War impartially ex-
amined.'†

1765.

1766.

Mrs. Lennox's Translation of Sully's Memoirs.'
-'Letter on the Case of Admiral Byng.'-
'Appeal to the People concerning Admiral
Byng.' 'Hanway's Eight Days' Journey, and 1767.
Essay on Tea.'-'Some further Particulars in
Relation to the Case of Admiral Byng, by a 1769.
gentleman of Oxford.'*

Mr. Jonas Hanway having written an angry
Answer to the Review of his Essay on Tea,
Johnson in the same Collection made a reply
to it. This is the only instance, it is believed,
when he condescended to take notice of any-
thing that had been written against him; and
here his chief intention seems to have been to
make sport.

Dedication to the Earl of Rochford of, and Preface to, Mr. Payne's Introduction to the Game of Draughts.*

Introduction to 'The London Chronicle,' an evening paper which still subsists with deserved credit.*

1757. Speech on the subject of an Address to the Throne after the Expedition to Rochford, delivered by one of his friends in some public

Review of Goldsmith's 'Traveller, a Poem,' in the 'Critical Review.'*

The Plays of William Shakspeare, in eight volumes 8vo, with Notes.*

'The Fountains, a Fairy Tale,' in Mrs. Williams's Miscellanies.*

Dedication to the King, of Mr. Adams's 'Treatise
on the Globes.'*

Character of the Rev. Mr. Zach. Mudge, in 'The
London Chronicle.'*

1770. The False Alarm.*

1771.
1772.

Thoughts on the late Transactions respecting
Falkland's Islands.*

Defence of a Schoolmaster; dictated to me for
the House of Lords.

Argument in support of the Law of Vicious
Intromission; dictated to me for the Court of
Session in Scotland.*

1773. Preface to Macbean's 'Dictionary of Ancient

Geography.'

Argument in Favour of the Rights of Lay Patrons:
dictated to me for the General Assembly of
the Church of Scotland.*

1774. The Patriot.*
1775. A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland.
Proposals for publishing the Works of Mrs.
Charlotte Lennox, in three volumes quarto.*

Taxation no Tyranny: an answer to the Resolu- 1782. The greatest part, if not the whole, of a Reply,

Argument to prove that the Corporation of 1784. List of the Authors of the Universal History,

donion Mercury,' against the Society of Pro- 1756. 'Observations on the foregoing Letter: i. e., A