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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


Jackson, William, of Canterbury (poet; 1757-89).  54-ii (1784): [ii]; 57-i (1787): 72; 59-ii (1789): 936.

Jago, Rev. Richard (clergyman and poet; 1715-81).  68-i (1798): 487, 488, 489 (2).

Jallange, ----- de.  20 (1750): 230, 279, 579-580; 21 (1751): 519 (2).

Jeffreys, George (poet and playwright; 1678-1755).  22 (1752): 578; 23 (1753): 45 (2), 141, 192 [?]; 35 (1765): 140.

Jekyll, -----.  50 (1780): 582.

Jemmat, Catherine Yeo (author of memoirs; bapt. 1714; d. 1766?).  20 (1750): 517.

Jenner, Rev. Charles (poet and novelist; bapt. 1736; d. 1774).  36 (1766): 329.

Jenyns, Soame (civil servant and religious writer; 1704-87).  17 (1747): 587; 29 (1759): 80; 46 (1776): 133; 56-i (1786): 428.

Jephson, Robert (dramatist and poet; 1736/7-1803).  49 (1779): 95-96, 96; 52 (1782): 36; 61-i (1791): 103.

Jerningham, Edward (poet and playwright; 1737-1812).  55-i (1785): 489; 55-ii (1785): 990; 70-ii (1800): 635.

Jervis, T. (of Stourbridge).  60-ii (1790): 651.

Jodrell, Paul (Solicitor-General to Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales; 1715?-51).  51 (1781): 384 (2).

Jodrell, Richard Paul (barrister, classicist, and playwright; 1745-1831).  56-i (1786): 340 (2); 57-i (1787): 72; 59-i (1789): 350.

Johnson, Rev. Samuel, of Shrewsbury (schoolmaster and poet; ca. 1739-98).  51 (1781): 235-236.

Johnson, Richard (headmaster of Nottingham Free School and grammarian; 1656/7-1721).  15 (1745): 47 [?].

Johnson, Samuel (playwright and dancing master; 1690/91-1773).  2 (1732): 745 (2).

Johnson, Samuel (lexicographer; 1709-84).  6 (1736): [iv] [?], 420 [?]; 8 (1738): 156, 210 (3), 211, 214 [?], 215 [?], 269, 271 [?], 272 [?], 372, 429, 486, 654; 9 (1739): 4 [?], 269, 324; 10 (1740): 464, 519 [?]; 11 (1741): 606 [?]; 13 (1743): 376, 378 (2), 380, 550; 15 (1745): 102-103 (revision [with Rev. Stephen Barrett] of verses by Geoffrey Walmsley); 17 (1747): 194 [?], 239 (2), 239-240, 240 (3), 290 [?], 490-491; 18 (1748): 89 [?], 598-599; 19 (1749): 85 (2); 20 (1750): 38 [?], 85 [?], 183; 22 (1752): 184-185, 468, 469 (4), 470 (5); 24 (1754): 40 (correction of verses by Anna Williams), 428 [?]; 38 (1768): 86-87, 439; 47 (1777): 286; 49 (1779): 205-206; 53-ii (1783): 695-696; 54-i (1784): [ii], 456; 55-i (1785): 100 [?], 477; 56-i (1786): 156, 249 (3), 340; 57-i (1787): 441; 70-i (1800): 5.

Johnstone, Charles (novelist, essayist, and playwright; ca. 1719-ca. 1800).  49 (1779): 38 [?].

Johnstone, James (epigrammatist; fl. 1615).  65-i (1795): 299.

Jones, Henry, of Dublin (poet and playwright; 1721-70).  16 (1746): 38, 99; 23 (1753): 141.

Jones, Henry, of Spalding.  16 (1746): 37 [?].

Jones, J., of Canterbury.  58-ii (1788): 1011.

Jones, Jenkin (perhaps Jenkin Lloyd Jones, b. ca. 1765).  70-i (1800): 463-465.

Jones, Mary (poet; 1707-78).  12 (1742): 101; 18 (1748): 327.

Jones, Rev. William, of Nayland (divine; 1726-1800).  62-ii (1792): 940 (2).

Jones, Sir William (judge and orientalist; 1746-94).  52 (1782): 252, 446; 56-i (1786): 68; 57-i (1787): 109-110; 63-i (1793): 356, 359, 359 [?]; 64-i (1794): 66-67.

Jones, Thomas (of Pickering, Co. Radnor).  69-ii (1799): 975-976.

Jones, William Robert (schoolmaster; ca. 1743-1807).  56-ii (1786): 605.

Jordan, Thomas (poet; 1612?-85).  62-i (1792): 560.

Jortin, Rev. John (ecclesiastical historian; 1698-1770).  48 (1778): 279; 62-i (1792): 263; 69-i (1799): 12.

Junius, Hadrianus (Dutch physician, classicist, and poet; 1511-1575).  70-i (1800): 127.

Keate, George (poet and painter; 1729-97).  51 (1781): 364; 52 (1782): 493; 53-i (1783): 429 (2).

Kelly, Hugh (playwright; 1739-77).  40 (1770): 231, 231-232; 44 (1774): 38.

Kemble, John Philip (actor; 1757-1823):.  53-i (1783): 247, 339.

Ken, Thomas, Bishop of Bath and Wells (one of the seven bishops who denounced James II’s Declaration of Indulgence; 1637-1711).  62-ii (1792): 596.

Kenrick, William (miscellaneous writer; 1725?-79).  18 (1748): 229, 231; 37 (1767): 604 (2); 46 (1776): 427, 557; 49 (1779): 39.

Kett, Rev. Henry (miscellaneous writer; 1761-1825).  59-i (1789): 75; 59-ii (1789): 839 (6), 839-840, 840 (3), 840 [?] (2).

Kiddell, Henry (poet).  25 (1755): 518.

King, Frances Elizabeth (author of religious works; 1757-1821).  68-i (1798): 519.

King, Henry, Bishop of Chichester (divine, poet, and sermon-writer; 1592-1669).  12 (1742): 384 (2).

King, William (principal of St. Mary’s Hall, Oxford; satirist; and sympathizer with Jacobitism; 1685-1763).  7 (1737): 757; 12 (1742): 98 (2), 157; 54-ii (1784): 695-696, 774-775.

Kipling, Isaac.  65-ii (1795): 1038.

Kirkpatrick, Dr. James (physician).  39 (1769): 550.

Knight, Ellis Cornelia (novelist; 1757-1837).  64-i (1794): 366.

Knight, Henrietta St. John, Lady Luxborough (poet; 1699-1756).  23 (1753): 286.

Knight, Rev. Francis, Jun. (ca. 1767-1837).  54-i (1784): 287; 55-i (1785): 54.

Knowles, Mary Morris (Quaker; 1733-1807).  61-ii (1791): 948-949.

Kunzius, Peter.  5 (1735): 431-436; 17 (1747): 40.

Kynaston, Rev. John (controversialist; 1728-83).  41 (1771): 468, 562; 46 (1776): 38; 60-i (1790): 257 (2).

La Condamine, Charles-Marie de (geographer; 1701-74).  34 (1764): 344.

La Rivière, Louis de (French prisoner of war, captured in 1757).  32 (1762): 333.

Lackington, James (bookseller; 1746-1815).  65-i (1795): 328.

Lactantius, Lucius Coelius Firmianus (rhetorician; ca. 240-ca. 320).  35 (1765): 423.

Lacy, George.  41 (1771): 328.

Lambe, Rev. Robert (clergyman; 1712-95).  53-i (1783): 336-338.

Landen, John (mathematician; 1719-90).  14 (1744): 328; 23 (1753): 191.

Lane, Rev. John, of Sawbridgeworth (clergyman; ca. 1760-1817).  61-ii (1791): 1118.

Langhorne, Rev. John (poet and translator of Plutarch; 1735-79).  25 (1755): 374; 26 (1756): 354; 28 (1758): 434; 31 (1761): 232; 32 (1762): 87, 235; 41 (1771): 231.

Langhorne, Rev. William (poet; 1721-72).  27 (1757): 181.

Langley, Margaret (of Snelson, Derbys.).  69-i (1799): 62-63.

Langrishe, Sir Hercules (Member of the Irish Parliament; 1731-1811).  57-i (1787): 437-438 [?].

Latham, Mrs. -----, of Ellham.  63-i (1793): 298.

Latter, Mary (poet and miscellaneous writer; bapt. 1722; d. 1777).  34 (1764): 91-92.

Lauder, William (ca. 1710-ca. 1771; literary forger).  17 (1747): 86.

Law, John, Bishop (successively) of Clonfert, Killala, and Elphin (divine; 1745-1810).  33 (1763): 306.

Lawrence, James Henry (poet and miscellaneous writer; 1773-1840).  62-ii (1792): 1040 (3), 1136 (4).

Lawson, Dr. John, of Trinity College, Dublin (writer on oratory; 1708/9-59).  35 (1765): 478.

Lawson, H.  60-i (1790): 260 [?].

Layng, Rev. Henry, the Elder (clergyman; b. ca. 1698).  17 (1747): 190-191; 19 (1749): 86, 134.

Le Guay, Père N. (émigré priest).  69-i (1799): 324-325.

Le Maistre, John Gustavus (barrister; b. ca. 1769).  63-ii (1793): 666.

Le Noir, Abbé (Grand Vicar of Angers).  66-ii (1796): 647.

Leapor, Mary (poet; 1722-46).  25 (1755): 374.

Lee, Sir Henry (probably Elizabeth I’s personal champion and master of ordnance; 1533-1611).  59-ii (1789): 843 [?].

Lee, Sophia Priscilla (playwright and novelist; bapt. 1750; d. 1824).  64-ii (1794): 842.

Leftley, Charles (poet and parliamentary reporter for The Times; 1770-97).  63-i (1793): 461-462.

Legat, Francis (engraver; 1755-1809).  59-ii (1789): 940 [?].

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Baron von (mathematician and philosopher; 1646-1716).  61-ii (1791): 900.

Leigh, Charles, of Adlington (d. 1781).  17 (1747): 39, 144-145.

Lemoine, Henry (bookseller and publisher; 1756-1812).  54-i (1784): 454-455; 59-i (1789): 555; 60-i (1790): 449-450; 64-i (1794): [ii], 65, 164-165; 65-i (1795): 64; 65-ii (1795): [ii], 1104; 66-i (1796): [ii], 328; 67-ii (1797): 596; 68-i (1798): unpaginated front matter (final page of index to the 68-i volume), unpaginated front matter (preceding the title page of the 68-i volume); 68-ii (1798): 1135; 69-i (1799): 147; 69-ii (1799): [544] (facing title page for the July 1799 number); 70-ii (1800): [ii].

Lennox, Charlotte (novelist and poet; 1730/31?-1804).  20 (1750): 518-519, 519; 27 (1757): 372, 564, 564-565, 565.

Leslie, G. J.  53-i (1783): 338-339; 53-ii (1783): 694-695, 783, 869-870, 870, 871; 54-i (1784): 288; 55-ii (1785): 818.

Lettice, Rev. John (poet and clergyman; 1737-1832).  53-ii (1783): 811.

Lettsom, Dr. John Coakley (physician and philanthropist; 1744-1815).  70-i (1800): 437 [?].

Lewis, David (bookseller and poet; 1683?-1760).  49 (1779): 367.

Lewis, Joseph (impoverished poet and worker in ivory; fl. 1750-74).  55-ii (1785): 780.

Lewis, Matthew Gregory (author of The Monk; 1775-1818).  66-ii (1796): 773-774.

Lewis, Rev. Francis, of Chiswick.  22 (1752): 469 (3).

Lewis, Richard (of Maryland; ca. 1700-34).  2 (1732): 669-671; 3 (1733): 209-210, 264.

Leyden, Dr. John (physician, poet, and orientalist; 1775-1811).  68-i (1798): 521-522.

Lickorish, Dr. Richard (physician; of Brandon near Coventry).  60-i (1790): 553; 60-ii (1790): 745; 62-i (1792): 263.

Lillie, Ralph.  6 (1736): 158 (2).

Linley, William (song-writer and East India Company official, 1771-1835).  61-ii (1791): 851.

Lipscomb, Rev. William (poet and miscellaneous writer; 1754-1742).  53-ii (1783): 782-783, 869; 68-i (1798): 426, 518-519; 69-ii (1799): 790-791.

Lister, Thomas (of Lichfield; ca. 1773-1828).  58-i (1788): 61-62, 252, 446 (3); 58-ii (1788): 916 (with Rev. Henry Francis Cary), 1105; 59-i (1789): 161-162; 59-ii (1789): 841; 61-i (1791): 260-261; 63-i (1793): 261; 68-ii (1798): 612.

Litchfield, John (d. 1858).  65-ii (1795): 596-597.

Little, Robert (of Norfolk; poet).  12 (1742): 214.

Littleton, Rev. Edward (divine, sermon-writer, and poet; bapt. 1698; d. 1733).  7 (1737): 446; 8 (1738): 42.

Lloyd, Evan (poet; 1734-76).  36 (1766): 35; 42 (1772): 239.

Lloyd, Nathaniel.  47 (1777): 88.