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See also:HAWKESWORTH, See also:JOHN (c. 1715–1773) , See also:English See also:miscellaneous writer, was See also:born in See also:London about 1715. He is said to have been clerk to an See also:attorney, and was certainly self-educated. In 1744 he succeeded See also:Samuel See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson as compiler of the See also:parliamentary debates for the See also:Gentleman's See also:Magazine, and from 1746 to 1749 he contributed poems signed Greville, or H. Greville, to that See also:journal. In See also:company with Johnson and others he started a periodical called The Adventurer, which ran to 140 See also:numbers, of which 70 were from the See also:pen of Hawkesworth himself. On See also:account of what was regarded as its powerful See also:defence of morality and See also:religion, Hawkesworth was rewarded by the See also:archbishop of See also:Canterbury with the degree of LL.D. In 1754–1755 he published an edition (12 vols.) of See also:Swift's See also:works, with a See also:life prefixed which Johnson praised in his Lives of the Poets. A larger edition (27 vols.) appeared in 1766–1779. He adapted See also:Dryden's See also:Amphitryon for the See also:Drury See also:Lane See also:stage in 1756, and See also:Southerne's Oronooko in 1759. He wrote the libretto of an See also:oratorio Zimri in 176o, and the next See also:year See also:Edgar and Emmeline: a See also:Fairy See also:Tale, was produced at Drury Lane. His Almoran and Hansel (2 vols., 1761) was first of all drafted as a See also:play, and a tragedy founded on it by S. J. See also:Pratt, The See also:Fair Circassian (1781), met with some success. He was commissioned by the See also:admiralty to edit See also:Captain See also:Cook's papers relative to his first voyage. For this See also:work, An Account of the Voyages undertaken . . . for making discoveries in the See also:Southern Hemisphere and performed by See also:Commodore Byrone, Captain See also:Wallis, Captain See also:Carteret and Captain Cook (from 1764 to 1771) See also:drawn up from the See also:Journals . (3 vols., 1773), Hawkesworth is said to have received from the publishers the sum of L6000. His descriptions of the See also:manners and customs of the See also:South Seas were, however, regarded by many critics as inexact and hurtful to the interests of morality, and the severity of their strictures is said to have hastened his See also:death. which took See also:place on the 16th of See also:November 1773. Ile was burie4
at See also:Bromley. See also:Kent, where he and his wife had kept a school. Hawkesworth was a See also:close imitator of Johnson both in See also:style and thought, and was at one See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time on very friendly terms with him. It is said that he presumed on his success, and lost Johnson's friendship as See also:early as 1756.
End of Article: HAWKESWORTH, JOHN (c. 1715–1773)
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