Waller [Edmund]

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Authority Cited: Waller
Author name and dates: Edmund Waller (1606-1687)

BKG Bio-tweet: Royalist politician; wealthy; avoided death; exiled to France; un-metaphysical poems; SJ: added to elegance of diction

Categories (list of works cited – preliminary); [BKG Note: about 300 Waller cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 410 Waller cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. Seven Waller cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. indicated in bold italic below. Although not named in the listed lots of The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, a Facsimile Edition, ed. Fleeman, Appendix II item 15 is Poems &c. Written upon several occasions, and to Several Persons, by Edmund Waller . . . fourth edition . . . London: Henry Herringman . . . 1682. This book, annotated by Johnson (but not for the Dict. quotes), is at Trinity College, Cambridge.]

Poems, &c. Written upon several Occasions, And to several Persons. The Eighth Edition, with Additions. To which is Prefix'd The Author's Life, London, 1711, Printed for Jacob Tonson, at Shakespear's Head over-against Catherine Street in the Strand. [BKG Note: if SJ used this, or the ninth edition as a source of the Waller's Life quote, he may have used this work for the Waller poetry quotes (including the Maid's Tragedy) as well. However the Biographia Britannica notes that the 1730 edition (without the life) is the best Waller works edition.]

A La Malade: fresh*, scorch*,
A Panygric to My Lord Protector; awe*, back*, indite*, mistaken*, pain*, princely*, rely*, spare*, state*, wellborn*,
A Presage of the Ruin of the Turkish Empire: cage*, gospel*, repress*, source*,
An Apology for Having Loved Before; drops*, present*,
At Pens-Hurst; singer
Epitaph on Colonel Chrles Cavendish; royalist
Epitaph on Sir George Speke: heiress*,
Epitaoh on the Lady Sedley; credit*
Epitaph to be written...only son of the Lord Andover; stock*,
Fourth Book of Verfil's Aeneis; bank*, boistrous*, consecrate*, ungirt*, wizard*,
From a Child; weed*,
Instructions to a Painter; bestride*, numerous*, powder-room*, unwearied*, wilderness*,
Love's Farewell; nymph*,
Maid’s Tragedy; The second part of Mr. Waller's poems Containing, his alteration of The maids tragedy, and whatever of his is yet unprinted: together with some other poems, speeches, &c. that were printed severally, and never put into the first collection of his poems. , London : printed for Tho. Bennet, at the Half-Moon in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1690; Or, The maid's tragedy altered with some other pieces / by Edmund Waller, Esq. ; not before printed in the several editions of his poems. , London : Printed for Jacob Tonson ..., 1690; Or, the Poems, &c. Written upon several Occasions, cited above. Quoted under absolve, blemish, duel*, exigent*, jealous*, impious*, make*, oblige*, perfect*, pest*, requital*, right*, sage*, sheath*, should*, slave*, spitefully*, take*, way*, wonder*, world*,
Of a War with Spain; abode*, about*, deep*, plate*, quarry*
Of Divine Love; regnant
Of her passing through a crowd of people: fare*,
Of her Royal Highness, Mother to the Prince of Orange; mine*, mistress*,
Of His Majesty receiving the news of the Duke of Buckingham's Death; veil*, wrestler*,
Of Sallee: goods*
Of the Danger His Majesty escaped in the Road at St. Andre; affright*, barge*, row*, scare*,
Of the Lady who can sleep when she pleases; vigil*, wonder*,
Of the late Invasion and Defeat of the Turks: favour*, janizary*, undoubtd*,
Of the Marriage of the Dwarfs; level*, wive*,
Of the Queen; cure*, good*, sweet*,
Of a Tree cut in Paper; foil*,
On Mr. John Fletchter's Plays; cast*, outdone*,
On My Lady Dorothy Sidney's Picture; transcend*,
On St. James's Park: founder*, report*, strange*, talk*,
On the Discovery of a Lady's Painting; causeless*, print*, shake
On the Duke of Monmouth's expedition into Scotland; grace*,
On the Friendship Betwixt two Ladies; ennoble*,
On the Picture of a Fair Youth, taken after he was dead; visage*
Prologue to the Maid's Tragedy; carelesly*, cast*, cultivate*, sweat*,
Song; wrap
Speech to the House of Commons; motherless;
Sung by Mrs. Knight to Her Majesty; wheel
The Apology of Sleep; command*, over-cast*,
The Battel of the Summer-Islands; amorous*, cub*, exchange*, odorous*; plantain*, potato*, rent*, scale*, sluggish*, taste*, uncurst*, unplanted*,
The Bud; big* ,
The Fall; busy*,
The Night-Piece: haven*, unshot*,
Thyrsis, Galatea; span*,
To a Friend of the Author...; throng*
To a Lady, from who he received a silver pen; ink*,
To a Lady, from whom he received the foregoing copy; prophecy*,
To a Lady, in Retirement; resumes*,
To a Lady, singing a song of his own composing; spell*,
To a Very Young Lady; mild*,
To Amoret; nameless*,
To Chloris; uprightness*,
To His Worthy Friend, Sir Thos. Higgons; raze*,
To Mr. Henry Lawes; heroick*,
To Mr. Killigrew; daw*, mould*,
To Mrs. Braughton, servant to Sacharissa; plaint*,
To My Lord Admiral; seaborn*, stem*,
To My Lord of Falkland; civilize*
To My Lord of Nothumberland; debt*
To My Worthy Friend, Mr. Wase; early*, far*,
To Phyllis; rain* [BKG Note: one of two "To Phyllis" poems; SJ improves "sheperds" to "farmers" as needing rain.]
To Sir William D'Avenant; empoverish*
To the King, upon His Majesty's Happy Return; spare*, stay*,
To the King on his Navy; commander*, government*, guard*, hold*, part*,
To the Mutable Fair; would*,
To the Queen, occasioned upon sight of Her Majesty's Picture; fare*,
To the Queen, upon Her Majesty's Birth-day; pining*, rude*,
To Van Dyke; heedless*, softness,
To Zelinda; pedigree*, sap*, seed*, wrestler*,
Translated out of French: must*, nettle*,
Upon Ben. Johnson; motion*
Upon her Majesty's new buildings at Somerset-House: frugality*, glory*,
Upon His Mafesty's Repairing of St. Paul's; quarry*, ruminates*,
Upon the Death of My Lord Protector; tropick*, uncut*,
Upon the Death of my Lady Rich; heart-rending*, rage*, remove*, taper*, veil*
Upon the Earl of Rscommon's Translating Horace's ...; prune *, seed*,
Waller (no work cited = *); again; blast; constrain; sort; view; unfold; whole; [BKG Note: there are several hundred Waller citations without a specific work cited.] [BKG Note: disabuse Waller's Angler quote should be Walton.] [BKG Note: mistrustful Waller quote should be Dryden: To His Sacred Majesty, A Panygyric on His Coronation] [BKG Note: sententious Waller quote should be Roscommon's translation of Horace.] [BKG Note: second singer Waller quote may be from Beaumont and Fletcher's Maids Tragedy]