Catalogue of a Collection of Early Newspapers and Essayists, Formed by the Late John Thomas Hope, Esq, and Presented to the Bodleian Library by the Late Frederick William Hope (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: ...of Dr. Johnson (see BoswelFs Journal, third edition, p. 240), the Hon. Hamilton Boyle should be added as a contributor; but among the small number of papers without signatures his claim is to this hour unassigned. An edition of the Adventurer, 1720, 4 vols. 12mo. 86. The Spr1ng-garden Journal; No. I, Thursday, Nov. 16, 1752; continued weekly; No. IV, Dec. 7; 8vo. By Mrs. Pr1sc1lla Termagant, a near relation of the late Mrs. Roxana; addressed to the Writers of the Age, but more particularly to Sir Alexander Drawcansir H. Fielding, Author of the Covent Garden Journal. Possibly Bonnell Thornton was the author; who has also printed in this volume three papers of the New Female Spectator, and a Covent Garden Journal Extraordinary. 87. The World; No. I, Thursday, Jan. 4, 1753; continued weekly to No. CCIX, Dec. 30, 1756; sheet and a-half folio. The World, a paper confined to irony and the ridicule o fashionable folly, had unquestionably much merit, for though exhibiting very little either of pathos, imagination, or critical truth, it is throughout gay and sparkling, and reproduced with fresh grace and lustre the philosophy of Aristippus. Edward Moore, the conductor, contributed sixty-one papers; the Earl of Chesterfield, twenty-four; Richard Owen Cambridge, twenty-one; Horace Walpole, nine; Soame Jenyns, five; John Tilson, five; Edward Lovibond, five; and the Earl of Corke, four. The other contributors were--William Pulteney, Earl of Bath; Richard Berenger, Hon. Hamilton Boyle, --Burgess, Rev. Thomas Cole, John Gilbert Cooper, Hon. Francis Coventry, Robert Dodsley, Rev. John Duncombe, William Duncombe, Thos. Gataker; David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes;--Herring, Sir James Marriott, Walter Moyle, Thomas Mulso, --Parrott, James Ridley, William Hayward Roberts, D.D., James .