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The Poetry of the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1731 – 1800:
An Electronic Database of Titles, Authors, and First Lines
– An Ongoing Project –

Emily Lorraine de Montluzin


Abbot, Rev. Henry (clergyman and schoolmaster; 1681-1728).  7 (1737): 374 [1st 374].

Adamthwaite, Rev. John (clergyman; b. ca. 1746).  57-i (1787): 439-440; 61-ii (1791): 854-855, 1187; 64-i (1794): 459; 68-i (1798): 332.

Addison, Joseph (essayist; 1672-1719).  1 (1731): 247; 24 (1754): 134; 41 (1771): 562; 61-i (1791): 502 (revision of a poem by Rev. John Lloyd).

Aikin, Dr. John (biographer and physician; 1747-1822).  56-ii (1786): 792, 985 [?]; 58-i (1788): 159, 249; 60-i (1790): 356; 61-ii (1791): 951-962.

Akenside, Dr. Mark (physician and poet; 1721-70).  4 (1734): [iii]; 7 (1737): 244-245, 309, 441-442; 8 (1738): 427-428; 9 (1739): 544; 11 (1741): 272 [?]; 14 (1744): 219, 329; 15 (1745): [iv] [?], 552; 16 (1746): [iv] [?]; 17 (1747): 244 [?]; 18 (1748): 517 [?], 518 [?]; 21 (1751): 373, 472; 38 (1768): 344.

Aldrich, Rev. Henry (dean of Christ Church, Oxford; 1647-1710).  6 (1736): 417; 8 (1738): 271, 541.

Allestree, Rev. Richard (Royalist divine, Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford, and provost of Eton; 1619-81).  8 (1738): 153.

Alleyn, Charles (poet).  54-i (1784): 79.

Allibond, Rev. John (clergyman; 1596/7-1658).  63-ii (1793): 1095-1097.

Alsop, Rev. Anthony (poet; d. 1726).  5 (1735): 384, 609; 6 (1736): 47; 8 (1738): 46, 427; 9 (1739): 324; 41 (1771): 280.

Amherst, William Pitt, Earl Amherst of Arracan (statesman; 1773-1857).  63-ii (1793): 665.

Amhurst, Nicholas (poet and journalist; 1697-1742).  32 (1762): 496.

Andrews, James Pettit (antiquary and historian; ca. 1737-97).  68-i (1798): 647.

Andrews, Miles Peter (dramatist; d. 1814).  50 (1780): 582; 51 (1781): 135, 188; 53-i (1783): 521-522 [misnumbered as 225].

Andrews, W.  27 (1757): 324.

Anstey, Christopher (poet; 1724-1805).  36 (1766): 233-234; 48 (1778): 430-431 [?]; 49 (1779): 39-40; 55-ii (1785): 991-992 [?]; 57-i (1787): 72; 61-i (1791): 564; 62-i (1792): 168; 68-i (1798): 244.

Antipater of Sidon (poet; fl. ca. 100 B.C.).  24 (1754): 176.

Aram, Eugene (schoolmaster and condemned murderer; d. 1759).  29 (1759): 355.

Arbuckle, James (journalist, essayist, and poet; d. 1742).  8 (1738): 41.

Archer, Rev. Thomas (clergyman; b. 1750).  52 (1782): 399.

Arden, Rev. William (clergyman; 1731-68).  31 (1761): 37.

Argental, Charles Augustin de Ferriol, comte d’ (ambassador from the Duke of Parma to the court of Louis XVI; 1700-88).  58-i (1788): 269.

Armstrong, Dr. John (physician; 1709-79).  14 (1744): 332.

Armstrong, John (poet and journalist; 1771-97).  67-ii (1797): 732.

Arne, Thomas Augustine (composer; 1710-78).  34 (1764): 593-594 [?], 594 [?] (2).

Ashby, Samuel (of Bungay).  64-i (1794): 258-259.

Atkinson, John (of York).  28 (1758): 538-539.

Atkinson, Joseph (Irish army officer and playwright; 1743-1818).  70-i (1800): 563.

Atterbury, Francis, Bishop of Rochester (divine; 1662-1732).  3 (1733): 148, 204; 57-ii (1787): 625.

Ausonius [Decimus Magnus Ausonius] (Latin poet and rhetorician; 310-395).  69-ii (1799): 559n, 832.

Ayre, William (early biographer of Pope).  15 (1745): 217.

Ayscough, George Edward (dramatist and traveler; d. 1779).  47 (1777): 39-40.

Bacon, Rev. Phanuel (divine and dramatist; 1700-83).  26 (1756): 247, 302-303, 355-356; 39 (1769): 360.

Badcock, Rev. Samuel (literary critic; 1747-88).  45 (1775): 292 [?] (2); 53-i (1783): 159-160, 339; 56-ii (1786): 790; 58-ii (1788): 691, 780; 62-i (1792): 364.

Bagot, Egerton (ca. 1714-75).  9 (1739): 492; 10 (1740): 462.

Baker, Henry (naturalist and poet; 1698-1774).  4 (1734): 271; 9 (1739): 99.

Balzac, Jean Louis Guez de (writer of letters; 1597-1654).  39 (1769): 48.

Bancks, John (miscellaneous writer; 1709-51).  3 (1733): iv, 709, 709-710; 8 (1738): 104; 24 (1754): 183.

Bancroft, Thomas (poet; fl. 1613-1658).  46 (1776): 8; 61-ii (1791): 660.

Banister, Rev. James (clergyman).  55-ii (1785): 642-643; 57-ii (1787): 719 (2); 61-i (1791): 168; 62-ii (1792): 847; 63-i (1793): 358-359 [?]; 66-i (1796): 148.

Barbauld, Anna Letitia (poet; 1743-1825).  58-i (1788): 177; 69-i (1799): 237 [?].

Barber, Mary (poet; ca. 1685-1755).  1 (1731): 23; 3 (1733): 151 (3), 322; 5 (1735): 550-551; 6 (1736): 228 (2); 7 (1737): 179.

Barker, H.  33 (1763): 560 [?].

Barnard, Rev. Edward (headmaster and provost of Eton; 1717-81).  49 (1779): 559.

Barnard, Thomas, Dean of Derry and later Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora, and then of Limerick, Ardfert, and Aghadoe (divine; 1728-1806).  46 (1776): 523.

Barreaux, Jacques Vallée, seigneur des (poet; 1602-75).  13 (1743): 436.

Barrett, Rev. Stephen (clergyman and schoolmaster; 1718-1801).  15 (1745): 100, 102-103 (revision [with Samuel Johnson] of verses by Geoffrey Walmsley), 270; 16 (1746): 99, 158, 606; 17 (1747): 539.

Barrow, Rev. William (divine; 1754-1836).  63-i (1793): 72.

Barry, Colonel Henry (soldier in America and India; 1750-1822).  55-i (1785): 416.

Barwick, -----.  49 (1779): 415.

Baskerville, John (printer of Birmingham; 1706-75).  67-i (1797): 391.

Basse, William (poet; ca. 1583-1653?).  24 (1754): 382.

Basset, Rev. Isaac (clergyman; b. ca. 1717).  13 (1743): 662.

Bate, Rev. Edward (clergyman; b. ca. 1716).  22 (1752): 532.

Bayley, Mrs. Major Henry.  70-ii (1800): 876.

Beach, Thomas (wine merchant and poet; d. 1737).  5 (1735): 255 [2nd 255], 382, 555, 676 (2), 729; 6 (1736): 104, 224, 284, 349, 615; 12 (1742): 328 [?], 436-437 [?]; 22 (1752): 83, 86, 232, 332 (2); 23 (1753): 240.

Beattie, James (Scottish poet; 1735-1803).  31 (1761): 230-231; 50 (1780): 581; 62-ii (1792): 1098-1099.

Beattie, James Hay (Professor of Moral Philosophy and Logic at the University of Aberdeen; 1768-90).  64-ii (1794): 1132.

Beaumont, Rev. Joseph (master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge; 1616-99).  17 (1747): 443.

Becdelièvre, la Comtesse de.  61-ii (1791): 1222.

Becket, Elias.  1 (1731): 349-350.

Beckford, William (Jamaican planter, historian, and author of works on Jamaica; 1744-99).  70-ii (1800): 1082.

Behn, Aphra (playwright and novelist; 1640-89).  10 (1740): 459.

Beloe, Rev. William (classicist and co-conductor of the British Critic; 1758-1817).  61-i (1791): 565; 62-ii (1792): 1038; 63-i (1793): 260; 63-ii (1793): 847; 65-i (1795): 324, 420; 65-ii (1795): 772; 66-i (1796): [iv], 151 [?]; 67-i (1797): 148; 70-i (1800): 369, 369-370; 70-ii (1800): 769, 977.

Bennet, William, Bishop of Cloyne (archaeologist and divine; 1746-1820).  66-i (1796): 327.

Bentley, Elizabeth (poet; bapt. 1767; d. 1839).  60-ii (1790): 1167-1168.

Bentley, Rev. Richard (classicist and Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge; 1662-1742).  10 (1740): 616.

Bentley, Samuel (of Uttoxeter).  48 (1778): 182; 61-i (1791): 366-367.

Bentley, T.  58-i (1788): 160.

Berington, Joseph (of Louvain).  17 (1747): 493, 567, 587 (2), 588.

Berkeley, -----.  12 (1742): 599.

Berkeley, George, Bishop of Cloyne (philosopher and divine; 1685-1753).  14 (1744): 559.

Berkeley, George Monck (miscellaneous writer; 1763-93).  56-i (1786): 341.

Bernard, F.  4 (1734): 622.

Berry [Barry], Dr. Charles.  10 (1740): 617 (2); 13 (1743): 547.

Berry, Miss -----.  45 (1775): 394-395 [? (or Aphia Lyttelton, formerly Peach?)].

Beza, Theodore (Huguenot theologian and Greek scholar; 1519-1605).  65-i (1795): 61.

Bickerstaff, Rev. William (antiquary; 1728-89).  20 (1750): 519; 21 (1751): 182 (4), 278 (2); 23 (1753): 94, 384, 483; 25 (1755): 180, 277, 278; 35 (1765): 185-186, 288; 53-ii (1783): 1004; 59-i (1789): 205 [?] (2).

Bickerstaffe, Isaac (dramatist; 1735?-1812?).  32 (1762): 593 (7); 39 (1769): 313.

Bicknell, Alexander (author of fiction and histories; d. 1796).  55-i (1785): 449-450, 450; 58-i (1788): 443; 64-i (1794): 459.

Birch, Rev. Thomas (divine and contributor to the General Dictionary; 1705-66).  6 (1736): 156 [2nd 156]; 39 (1769): 503.

Birch, Samuel (dramatist and Lord Mayor of London; 1757-1841).  66-ii (1796): 598.

Birkhead, Mathew (song writer).  1 (1731): 432.

Bishop, Rev. Samuel (poet and headmaster of Merchant Taylors’ School; 1731-95).  65-ii (1795): 1036 (2); 66-i (1796): 66, 512; 66-ii (1796): 1037; 67-i (1797): 64; 67-ii (1797): 872 (3); 69-ii (1799): 789-790.

Black, Rev. John (poet; 1753-1813).  55-i (1785): 55 (2), 389, 474-475; 55-ii (1785): 644, 989 (2); 56-i (1786): 252 (2); 56-ii (1786): 601, 793, 1025 [?].

Blackbourne, Peter (son of an English merchant in Lisbon; b. ca. 1748).  32 (1762): 546.

Blackburne, Rev. Francis (theologian; 1705-87).  60-i (1790): 449 (2).

Blacklock, Thomas (Scottish poet and minister; 1721-91).  19 (1749): 514-515.

Blackmore, Sir Richard (poet and physician; 1654-1729).  2 (1732): 854.

Blackstone, Sir William (judge and author of Commentaries on the Laws of England; 1723-80).  51 (1781): 335-336.

Blair, Rev. Hugh (Scottish minister and professor of rhetoric; 1718-1800).  69-ii (1799): 653.

Blair, Robert (poet and minister in the Church of Scotland; 1699-1746).  13 (1743): 323.

Blythe, F.  5 (1735): 254-255 [2nd 254-255], 256 [2nd 256], 674, 674-675; 6 (1736): 48, 103.

Boerhaven, Rev. Joseph (clergyman).  48 (1778): 536.

Boileau-Despréaux, Nicolas (French poet; 1636-1711).  17 (1747): 493.

Bold, Michael.  16 (1746): 549.

Bold, William.  66-ii (1796): [ii].

Bondel [or Bondely], Baron de (counselor of the Prussian court of justice).  28 (1758): 36.

Bonneval, Louis de.  16 (1746): 548.

Booker, Rev. Luke (divine and poet; 1762-1835).  59-ii (1789): 1131; 62-ii (1792): 847-848; 70-i (1800): 72; 80-i (1800): 299.