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Dr. Johnson and Burney's History of Music
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 December 2020
Abstract
- Type
- Comment and Criticism
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- Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1934
References
1 From the unpublished MS. of Thraliana in six volumes, in the Huntington Library. The quotation is from ii, 81.
2 Memoirs of Dr. Burney, ii, 77.
3 Piozzi, “Anecdotes of Dr. Johnson,” Johnsonian Miscellanies, ed. G. B. Hill, i, 286.
4 Memoirs of Dr. Burney, loc. cit.—This passage is, of course, quoted by Hill (Boswell's Life of Johnson, ii, 409, n. 1), but it is not appraised. This article was in type before the appearance of L. A. Powell's revision (Clarendon Press, 1934), in which see Appendix 5, Vol. iv, p. 546.
5 Johnsonian Miscellanies, ii, 286.
6 ii, 340.
7 Boswell, Life of Johnson, ed. G. B. Hill, iii, 366–367.
8 Ibid., ii, 409.
9 Thraliana, ii, 32.
10 History of Music, ii, 340.
11 Johnson, Works (Oxford, 1825), i, 142, note.
12 Memoirs of Dr. Burney, ii, 71.
13 Life of Johnson, ii, 1.—For the whole story see R. W. Chapman's “Boswell's Revises of the Life of Johnson,” in Johnson and Boswell Revised, pp. 45–6.
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