Robert Dodsley (13 February 1703 – 23 September 1764) was an English bookseller, publisher, poet, playwright, and miscellaneous writer. Dodsley was born...
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Dodsley (1724–1797), English bookseller, brother of Robert Robert Dodsley (1704–1764), English writer This page lists people with the surname Dodsley...
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in Mansfield. This formulated the beginning of the Brunt's Charity. Robert Dodsley, who wrote The King and the Miller of Mansfield, was a stocking weaver...
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were Giambattista Basile in Italy; La Fontaine in France; John Gay and Robert Dodsley in England; Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing...
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maint: location missing publisher (link) Robert Dodsley (22 January 2004). The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley: 1733-1764. Cambridge University Press....
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ISBN 9781108076227. Retrieved 10 December 2015. Robert Dodsley (22 January 2004). The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley: 1733-1764. Cambridge University Press....
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version of the phrase was first used in 1740 by the author and bookseller Robert Dodsley, in his Chronicle of the Kings of England, where he described Henry...
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on the Genius and Writings of Pope, (London, 1756), vol. 1, p. 296 Robert Dodsley, A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, (London 1755), vol. 4, pp....
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Turkey and Islam. The authorship of the play has never been in doubt. Robert Dodsley included it in his Select Collection of Old Plays in 1744, but Marlowe's...
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ISSN 0013-2586. JSTOR 25098031. S2CID 144477737. Robert Dodsley (January 22, 2004). The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley: 1733-1764. Cambridge University Press...
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Register was created in 1758 by the publishers James and Robert Dodsley. On 24 April 1758 the Dodsley brothers signed a contract with Edmund Burke (1729–97)...
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premodern plays were separated into 'moralities' and 'mysteries' by Robert Dodsley in the 18th century; he categorized moralities as allegorical plays...
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for the form). The poem was a literary sensation when published by Robert Dodsley in February 1751 (see 1751 in poetry). Its reflective, calm, and stoic...
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keeping aloof and taunts it by name. La Fontaine's version was reused by Robert Dodsley in his fable collection of 1764 and again in the 1884 English edition...
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the Vulliamy family who made clocks at No. 68 between 1765 and 1854. Robert Dodsley ran a bookshop at No. 52, where he suggested the idea of a dictionary...
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research. Bardwell, Thomas; Richardson, Samuel; Millar, Andrew; Dodsley, Robert; Dodsley, James; Rivington, John; Rivington, James; Vivarès, François (1756)...
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approval for publication. With Walpole's help, he was able to convince Robert Dodsley to print the poem on 15 February as a quarto pamphlet. Walpole added...
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Philipp Hafner, Austrian writer of farce (born 1735) September 23 – Robert Dodsley, English miscellanist and bookseller (born 1703) October 23 – Pierre-Charles...
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Cleone is a 1758 tragedy by the British writer Robert Dodsley. The original Covent Garden cast included David Ross as Silfroy, Luke Sparks as Glanville...
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Archived from the original on 27 January 2016. Retrieved 20 June 2008. Robert Dodsley, The Annual Register, 1764, p. 166 Archived 8 April 2023 at the Wayback...
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he displayed it on a table for visitors to read and, according to Robert Dodsley, said "This man has great powers" and then he "pointed out the severest...
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1738 – Herman Boerhaave, Dutch botanist and physician (b. 1668) 1764 – Robert Dodsley, English poet and playwright (b. 1703) 1773 – Johan Ernst Gunnerus,...
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works were first published by his friend Robert Dodsley (3 vols., 1764–1769). The second volume contains Dodsley's description of the Leasowes. The last...
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ISSN 0013-2586. JSTOR 25098031. S2CID 144477737. Robert Dodsley (22 January 2004). The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley: 1733-1764. Cambridge University Press....
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abstract speculation. On 25 February 1757, Burke signed a contract with Robert Dodsley to write a "history of England from the time of Julius Caesar to the...
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finished work. The novel had been rejected by a previous publisher, Robert Dodsley, who declined to print an anonymous work. Burney, who worked as her...
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1746, a consortium of London's most successful printers, including Robert Dodsley and Thomas Longman – none could afford to undertake it alone – set out...
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she translated English works, including those by Oliver Goldsmith and Robert Dodsley. In the preface of Théorie des lois criminelles, a plea for penal reform...
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London: 439–455. Retrieved 31 August 2015. Moore 2003, p. 210. Dodsley, Robert; Dodsley, James (1761). "London and Its Environs Described". The Grub Street...
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Giacomo (1860–1934, Italy) Joe DiPietro (born 1961, United States) Robert Dodsley (1703–1764, England) Lodovico Dolce (1508 – c. 1568, Italy) Maurice...
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