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Notes
I have not provided references to quotations from Samuel Johnson’s works or the works of other members of his circle. Today it is easy to track down these quotations online, and to insert a reference for each of them would result in this book being glutted with notes.
I have modernized the spelling of eighteenth-century texts in cases where their meaning would otherwise be opaque for many readers.
2.
1. John Hawkesworth, An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of his Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, 3 vols (London: Strahan & Cadell, 1773), III, 578.
2. The last five words are an allusion to John Donne’s poem ‘The Will’: ‘Then all your beauties will be no more worth / Than gold in mines, where none doth draw it forth; / And all your graces no more use shall have, / Than a sun-dial in a grave’.
3.
1. Virgil, Georgics, trans. Peter Fallon (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), 33.
2. Several versions of the poem have circulated. This one was recorded by Johnson’s friend Charlotte Lennox. For a full discussion of the poem, see O M Brack, Jr, ‘Samuel Johnson and the Epitaph on a Duckling’, Books at Iowa 45 (1986), 62–79.
4.
1. John Wain, Samuel Johnson (London: Macmillan, 1974), 40. James L. Clifford, Young Samuel Johnson (London: William Heinemann, 1957), 97.
2. Laura Quinney, The Poetics of Disappointment (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999), ix, 1–4.
3. C. G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, ed. Aniela Jaffé, trans. Richard and Clara Winst
on (London: Collins and Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1963), 172.
4. For the detail about Sam’s name appearing on title pages, see J. D. Fleeman, A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson, prepared for publication by James McLaverty, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000), I, 32. For his inscription to Hector, see Fleeman, A Preliminary Handlist of Copies of Books Associated with Dr Samuel Johnson (Oxford: Bodleian Library, 1984), 24.
5. This is Adam Phillips’s theory about Johnson, as set out in David Nokes, Samuel Johnson: A Life (London: Faber, 2009), 42.
6. Wendy Laura Belcher, Abyssinia’s Samuel Johnson: Ethiopian Thought in the Making of an English Author (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), 42–61, 88–96.
5.
1. Peter Martin, Samuel Johnson: A Biography (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press, 2008), 60.
2. Robert DeMaria, Jr, Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading (Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), 74.
3. Hugo M. Reichard, ‘Boswell’s Johnson, the Hero Made by a Committee’, PMLA 95, No. 2 (1980), 225.
4. Lewis Hyde, ‘Two Accidents: Reflections on Chance and Creativity’, Kenyon Review 18, No. 3/4 (1996), 25–26.
5. Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder (London: Penguin, 2013), 6.
6. Robert Friedel, ‘Serendipity is No Accident’, Kenyon Review 23, No. 2 (2001), 39–40.
7. Among those to attribute this quotation to Einstein is George Saunders in The Brain-Dead Megaphone (London: Bloomsbury, 2008), 180.
6.
1. Leslie Stephen, Samuel Johnson (London: Macmillan, 1878), 12.
2. For a full discussion of the Marriage Act, see Erica Harth, ‘The Virtue of Love: Lord Hardwicke’s Marriage Act’, Cultural Critique 9 (1988), 123–154.
3. James L. Clifford, Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale), 2nd ed. with corrections (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968), 99–101.
7.
1. John Russell Brown (ed.), The Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), 261–263.
2. Ian McIntyre, Garrick (London: Penguin Allen Lane, 1999), 29.
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