• article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1747. March 31 – Laurence Sterne preaches the Good Friday sermon at St Helen Stonegate;...
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  • Namiki Sosuke and Miyoshi Shoraku 1747 in literature – Clarissa (to 1748) – Samuel Richardson 1748 in literature – Fanny Hill – John Cleland; An Enquiry...
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  • Bach's last St Mark Passion pastiche (BC D 5) at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig. In addition to two movements by Bach, he incorporates seven arias from George...
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  • printed in Josiah Gilbert Holland's History of Western Massachusetts in 1855. Burt, Daniel S. (2004). The Chronology of American Literature: America's...
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  • English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6. Day, Gary; Lynch, Jack (9 March 2015). The Encyclopedia of British Literature, 3 Volume...
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  • Beginning of the Seven Years' War in Europe. June 20 – The Black Hole of Calcutta incident inspires renewed British efforts in India. October 29 – Frances Abington...
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  • Massachusetts to Nova Scotia, Canada, begins the earliest recorded diary by a woman in North America. February 1 – Christopher Smart makes his last contribution...
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  • Catherine Laura Johnstone.]) (1865). The progress of science, art, and literature in Russia, by F.R. Grahame. James Blackwood & Company. p. 28. Paul Baines...
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  • is mostly written by Samuel Johnson. March 5 – Shakespeare's Richard II (in Colley Cibber's version) is presented at their theatre on Nassau Street (Manhattan)...
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  • The year 1747 in science and technology involved some significant events. Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (1697–1770), with the help of the artist Jan Wandelaar...
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  • of German Literature. Routledge. p. 1357. ISBN 9781135941291. Retrieved 24 March 2019. Kellgren, Johan Henrik (1838). Samlade skrifter (in Swedish). N...
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  • Gladfelder (16 April 2012). Fanny Hill in Bombay: The Making and Unmaking of John Cleland. JHU Press. p. 1747. ISBN 978-1-4214-0526-1. Sale, William M...
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  • LEXICOGRAPHER. A writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words. —Self-deprecating...
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  • the literary events and publications of 1754. January 28 – Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word serendipity (from the Persian fairy...
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  • publications of 1741. January 15 – The revival in the London theatre of Shakespeare plays featuring actresses in travesti roles continues at the Theatre Royal...
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  • – Clarissa, vols. ii – vii (earlier vols. dated 1748 actually published 1747) Thomas Sheridan – The Simile Tobias Smollett The Adventures of Roderick...
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  • Peg Woffington, playing Rosalind in As You Like It, suffers a stroke on stage at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London and never acts again. May...
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  • stage production in the Swedish language by native-born actors is given in Sweden, of the comedy Den Svenska Sprätthöken at the Bollhuset in Stockholm. November...
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  • Joseph Andrews appears in London as The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams, written in imitation of the manner...
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  • Rex (24 September 1987). The Attraction of the Contrary: Essays on the Literature of the French Enlightenment. Cambridge University Press. p. 83. ISBN 978-0-521-33386-3...
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  • (13 June 2013). Friendship and Allegiance in Eighteenth-Century Literature: The Politics of Private Virtue in the Age of Walpole. Springer. p. 126....
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  • Notices of the British Poets (New ed.). John Murray. p. 262. Thomas Whincop (1747). Scanderbeg: Or, Love and Liberty. A Tragedy. Written by the Late Thomas...
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  • (厲鶚), Chinese poet (born 1692) Augustan literature Poetical Works p. 443. John Ripley (1998). Coriolanus on Stage in England and America, 1609-1994. Fairleigh...
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  •  197. The British Cyclopaedia of the Arts, Sciences, History, Geography, Literature, Natural History, and Biography ... Wm. S. Orr and Company. 1838. p. 117...
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  • The table of years in literature is a tabular display of all years in literature for overview and quick navigation to any year. Contents: 2000s ·1900s...
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  • (1695 – 1747) British literature Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources Hermeneutic style Hiberno-Latin Latin literature Literature in the other...
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  • translator (born 1784) February 4 – John O'Keeffe, Irish dramatist (born 1747) March 7 – Rahel Varnhagen, German literary hostess (born 1771) March 11...
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  • and Anglo-Norman literature, where literature in these languages relate to the early development of the English language and literature. There is also some...
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