1736 in literature

none 1736 literature poetry July 2020 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1736. Events Charles Rivington founds a company of London booksellers known as the New Conger.Rivington, Charles 48 New books Prose Anonymous – The Life of Marianne (fiction, translation of Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux) Joseph Addison – The Works of Petronius Arbiter (translation) John Armstrong – The Oeconomy of Love Thomas Bayes – An Introduction to the Doctrine of Fluxions, and a Defence of the Mathematicians Against the Objections of the Author of the Analyst Isaac Hawkins Browne – A Pipe of Tobacco Joseph Butler – Analogy of Religion Thomas Carte – Life of James Duke of Ormonde William Rufus Chetwood – The Voyages. . . of William Owen Gwin Vaughan Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon – Les Égarements du cœur et de l'esprit (Strayings of the Heart and Mind), part one John Gyles – Memoirs of Odd Adventures, Strange Deliverances, &c. in the Captivity of John Gyles, Esq Eliza Haywood – Adventures of Eovaai (later as The Unfortunate Princess) Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab – Kitab at-tawhidt Isaac Newton – Method of Fluxions Elizabeth Singer Rowe – The History of Joseph William Stukeley – Palaeographia Sacra James Thomson – Britain William Warburton – The Alliance Between Church and State (an answer to Benjamin Hoadly from the year before) Leonard Welsted – The Scheme and Conduct of Providence Diego de Torres Villarroel Los desahuciados del mundo y de la gloria (The Deathly Illness of the World and of Glory) Historia de historias Drama Henry Carey – The Honest Yorkshireman Colley Cibber – Papal Tyranny in the Reign of King John Mr. Connolly – The Connoisseur Elizabeth Cooper – The Nobleman Henry Fielding – Pasquin Aaron Hill – Alzira Zara Samuel Johnson – All Alive and Merry James Sterling – The Parricide Poems 1736 in poetry Stephen Duck – Poems on Several Occasions William Melmoth – Two Epistles of Horace Imitated Alexander Pope – The Works of Alexander Pope vols iii–iv Voltaire – Le Mondain Births May 10 – George Steevens, English Shakespearean editor and hoaxer (died 1800) June 25 – John Horne Tooke, English controversialist and cleric (died 1812) October 27 – James Macpherson, Scottish writer, poet and politician (died 1796) Unknown dates Robert Jephson, Irish dramatist and politician (died 1803) James Ridley (Sir Charles Morell), English novelist and story writer (died 1765) Deaths January 8 – Jean Le Clerc, Swiss theologian (born 1657)Vincent, Benjamin (1877) "Leclerc, Jean (1657-1736)" A Dictionary of Biography, Past and Present: Containing the chief events in the lives of eminent persons of all ages and nations Ward, Lock, & Co., London February 9 – Barnaby Bernard Lintot, English bookseller and publisher (born 1675) March 18 – Jacob Tonson, English bookseller and publisher (born c. 1655) April 30 – Johann Albert Fabricius, German scholar and bibliographer (born 1668) July 16 – Thomas Yalden, English poet and translator (born 1670) References