1706 in literature

none July 2020 1706 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1706. Events April 8 – George Farquhar's Restoration comedy The Recruiting Officer is performed for the first time, at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in London.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 April/May – Philosopher Samuel Clarke attacks the views of Henry Dodwell on the immortality of the soul.Jeffrey Wigelsworth Deism in Enlightenment England: Theology, politics, and Newtonian public science https://books.google.com/books?id=H2W5DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT190 19 July 2013 Manchester University Press 978-1-84779-730-8 190 27 April 2022 11 August 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200811085329/https://books.google.com/books?id=H2W5DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT190 live September 13 – Daniel Defoe leaves England for Edinburgh, Scotland, where he acts as a government agent to promote ratification of the Treaty of Union.Maximillian E. Novak Daniel Defoe: Master of Fictions: His Life and Ideas https://books.google.com/books?id=dz6bO8hEDzcC&pg=PA289 2003 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-926154-3 289 2022-04-27 2020-08-11 https://web.archive.org/web/20200811100102/https://books.google.com/books?id=dz6bO8hEDzcC&pg=PA289 live unknown date – The first translation of the New Testament into the Upper Sorbian language, made by pastor Michał Frencel who dies this year, is published by his son Abraham in Zittau.Greville Corbett Bernard Comrie The Slavonic Languages https://books.google.com/books?id=euI4CQAAQBAJ&pg=PA596 September 2003 Routledge 978-1-136-86137-6 596 2022-04-27 2020-07-24 https://web.archive.org/web/20200724133820/https://books.google.com/books?id=euI4CQAAQBAJ&pg=PA596 live New books Prose Anonymous – The Arabian Nights' Entertainments (serial, the first English translation of One Thousand and One Nights, taken from the first French translation) Samuel Clarke – A Discourse Concerning the Unchangeable Obligations of Natural Religion Stephen Clay – An Epistle from the Elector of Bavaria to the French King Daniel Defoe An Essay at Removing National Prejudices Against a Union with Scotland A True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs. Veal (attrib) John Dennis – Essay on the Operas after the Italian Manner White Kennett – The History of England from the Commencement of the Reign of Charles I to the End of William III John Locke – Posthumous Works of Mr John Locke Simon Ockley – Introductio ad linguas orientates Jonathan Swift – Baucis and Philemon Matthew Tindal – The Rights of the Christian Church Asserted Ned Ward – The London Spy Drama Thomas Betterton – The Amorous Widow Susanna Centlivre – Love at a Venture The Platonick Lady Colley Cibber – Perolla and Izadora Catherine Trotter Cockburn – The Revolution of Sweden Antoine Danchet – Cyrus Thomas D'Urfey – Wonders in the Sun (opera) George Farquhar – The Recruiting Officer George Granville – The British Enchanters, or No Magic Like Love Delarivière Manley – Almyna, or The Arabian Vow Mary Pix (attr.) – Adventures in Madrid Jean-François Regnard – Le Légataire universel (The Residuary Legatee) John Vanbrugh – The Mistake José de Cañizares – El pastelero de Madrigal Poetry 1706 in poetry Richard Blackmore – An Advice to the Poets: a poem occasioned by the wonderful success of Her Majesty's arms, under the conduct of the Duke of Marlborough in Flanders William Congreve – A Pindarique Ode.... The Conduct of the Duke of Marlborough Daniel Defoe Caledonia A Hymn to Peace Jure Divino (on divine right) The Vision (on national union) John Dennis – The Battle of Ramillia Mihai Iștvanovici – Stihuri politice (Political Verse) John Philips – Cerealia: An imitation of Milton Matthew Prior – The Squirrel Thomas Tickell – Oxford Isaac Watts – Horae LyricaeIsabel Rivers Watts, Isaac (1674–1748) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/28888 2011-12-09 10.1093/ref:odnb/28888 2022-04-27 https://web.archive.org/web/20220427023019/https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-28888;jsessionid=60BE598B6FAF874046435BA23C17E254 live Births January 17 – Benjamin Franklin, American polymath and politician (died 1790) February 10 – Benjamin Hoadly, English physician and dramatist (died 1757) November 8 – Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German philosopher and jurist (died 1772) December 17 – Émilie du Châtelet, French writer and translator (died 1749) Deaths January 21 – Adrien Baillet, French critic (born 1649) February 27 – John Evelyn, English diarist (born 1620) August 6 – Jean-Baptiste du Hamel, French natural philosopher (born 1624) December 8 – Abraham Nicolas Amelot de la Houssaye, French historian (born 1634) December 28 – Pierre Bayle, French encyclopedist and philosopher (born 1647)Wiep van Bunge Hans Bots Pierre Bayle (1647-1706), Le Philosophe de Rotterdam: Philosophy, Religion and Reception: Selected Papers of the Tercentenary Conference Held at Rotterdam, 7–8 December 2006 https://books.google.com/books?id=8TYQHGuGHfMC&pg=PR7 4 June 2008 Brill 90-04-16536-3 7 27 April 2022 24 July 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200724133817/https://books.google.com/books?id=8TYQHGuGHfMC&pg=PR7 live unknown dates John Phillips, English satirist (born 1631) Phillips, John (1631-1706) Sidney Lee 45 Rahman Baba, Indian Pashto poet (born 1632) Guillaume Vandive, French printer and bookseller (born 1680) References 30em