1748 in literature

none November 2013 1748 literature poetry July 2020 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1748. Events January – The play Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜, Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees, by Takeda Izumo II, Miyoshi Shōraku and Namiki Senryū I) receives its Kabuki première in Ise.Alison McQueen Tokita Japanese Singers of Tales: Ten Centuries of Performed Narrative https://books.google.com/books?id=eW1BDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT210 2 March 2017 Taylor & Francis 978-1-351-92551-8 210 In May, it receives its first Edo performance at the Nakamura-za and in August first performances in Osaka at the Naka no Shibai. October 19 – David Garrick revives Philip Massinger's play A New Way to Pay Old Debts (written c. 1625) in London.The New Monthly Magazine https://books.google.com/books?id=JSgaAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA523 1838 523 November 21 – The first instalment of Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, also known as Fanny Hill, is published anonymously by John Cleland to raise money to free himself from the London debtors' prison. It is considered by some to be the first modern erotic novel. December 18 – The Royal Danish Theatre is founded, with the opening of the King's Theatre in Copenhagen.Norman Renouf Copenhagen and the Best of Denmark Alive! https://books.google.com/books?id=oABD-Tf4y8oC&pg=PT15 2003 Hunter Publishing, Inc 978-1-58843-355-8 15 unknown dates Leonhard Euler publishes, in Berlin, one of the two works for which he will be most renowned: the Introductio in analysin infinitorum. Euler's fifth paper on nautical topics, E137, is also written in this year but not published until 1750. The Gospel of Matthew in the Manx language, as Yn Sushtcml scruit liorish yn Noo Mian, is the first translation of a New Testament text into that language, under the auspices of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.G. W. Wood An Account of the Translation and Editions of the Holy Scriptures in the Manx Language http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/history/manks/script.htm The Manx Church Magazine 6 1896 New books Prose Richard Walton – Anson's A Voyage Round the WorldCatalogue of the Library of the Government of Victoria Mason & Frith 1864 231 Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens (attributed) – Thérèse philosopheDarnton, Robert, The Forbidden Best-sellers of Pre-revolutionary France, W. W. Norton & Company, 1996 0-393-31442-1 John Cleland – Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (also known as Fanny Hill) Denis Diderot Les Bijoux indiscrets (The Indiscreet Jewels, novel)P. N. Furbank (1992). Diderot:A Critical Biography. Twayne. p. 44 Memoires sur differents sujets de mathematique Eliza Haywood – Life's Progress through the Passions (novel)Spedding, Patrick (2004). A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. London: Pickering & Chatto James Hervey – Meditations and Contemplations David Hume – An Enquiry Concerning Human UnderstandingThomas Edmund Jessop A Bibliography of David Hume and of Scottish Philosophy from Francis Hutcheson to Lord Balfour 1966 12-20 Edmond Hoyle – Mr. Hoyle's Treatises of Whist, Quadrille, Piquet, Chess and Back-Gammon (collected edition) William Kenrick – The Town Montesquieu – De l'Esprit des lois (The Spirit of the Laws)De l'Esprit des loix ou du Rapport que les loix doivent avoir avec la constitution de chaque gouvernement, les moeurs, le climat, la religion, le commerce, &c . à quoi l'auteur a ajouté des recherches nouvelles sur les loix romaines touchant les successions, sur les loix françoises, & sur les loix féodales A Genève, chez Barrillot & fils 1 I https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8618461c/f9.image.r=Montesquieu%20De%20l'Esprit%20des%20Lois September 7, 2016 Gallica Laetitia Pilkington – Memoirs Clarke Norma Laetitia Pilkington (c. 1709–50): scandalous woman and memoirist 5 March 2013 History Ireland https://www.historyireland.com/18th-19th-century-history/laetitia-pilkington-c-1709-50-scandalous-woman-and-memoirist/ 4 June 2020 Samuel Richardson (anonymously) – Clarissa, vols. ii – vii (earlier vols. dated 1748 actually published 1747) Thomas Sheridan – The Simile Tobias Smollett The Adventures of Roderick RandomTobias George Smollett The Adventures of Roderick Random: In Two Volumes.. https://books.google.com/books?id=0QsUAAAAQAAJ 1748 J. Osborn English translation of The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane by Alain-René Le Sage François-Vincent Toussaint – Les Mœurs Voltaire – Zadig (in final form)https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780198661252.001.0001/acref-9780198661252-e-4886 Zadig Oxford Reference 20 November 2024 Horace Walpole – A Second and Third Letter to the Whigs John Wesley – A Letter to a Person Lately Join'd with the People call'd Quakershttps://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_a-letter-to-a-person-lat_wesley-john_1748_1 Letter to a Person Lately Join'd with the People call'd Quakers Internet Archive 20 November 2024 Peter Whalley – An Enquiry into the Learning of Shakespeare Diego de Torres Villarroel – De los temblores y otros movimientos de la tierra llamados vulgarmente terremotos Drama Jean-François Marmontel – Denys le Tyran Edward Moore – The Foundling Takeda Izumo II, Miyoshi Shōraku and Namiki Senryū – Kanadehon Chūshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵, original version for bunraku puppet theatre) Alexander Sumarokov – Gamlet: Tragediya (adapted from Shakespeare's Hamlet) Poetry Mark Akenside – An Ode to the Earl of Huntingdon Robert Dodsley – A Collection of Poems (a publisher's anthology) Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (anonymously) – Der Messias (first three cantos) Mary Leapor (died 1746) – Poems Ambrose Philips – Pastorals, Epistles, Odes and Other Original Poems James Thomson – The Castle of Indolence Thomas Warton – Poems See also 1748 in poetry Births January 1 – Gottfried August Bürger, German poet (died 1794)William Alfred Little Gottfried August Bürger https://books.google.com/books?id=ITYbAAAAYAAJ 1974 Twayne Publishers 978-0-8057-2185-0 13 February 15 – Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher (died 1832)Anom Historical Dictionary of the British Empire https://books.google.com/books?id=L-X-XYB_ZkIC&pg=PA129 1996 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-0-313-29366-5 129 April 27 – Pierre-Louis Ginguené, French author (died 1815)Hugh Chisholm James Louis Garvin The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature & General Information https://books.google.com/books?id=nuezwLN7O0QC 1926 Encyclopædia Britannica 28 May 7 – Olympe de Gouges, French dramatist (died 1793)Lorrayne Y. Baird-Lange Thomas A. Copeland Women in History, Literature, and the Arts: A Festschrift for Hildegard Schnuttgen in Honor of Her Thirty Years of Outstanding Service at Youngstown State University https://books.google.com/books?id=gA0pAAAAYAAJ 1989 The University 978-0-9623146-1-2 22 November 1 – Francesco Galeani Napione, Italian historian (died 1830) November 8 – Anne Seymour Damer, English sculptor and novelist (died 1828)Anne Seymour Damer 1748–1828 Tate https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/anne-seymour-damer-2553 Tate 21 August 2018 December 14 – Louis-François de Bausset, French cardinal, writer, and academician (died 1824)Chidambaran S. dewan bahadur Srinivasachari Ananda Ranga Pillai, the 'Pepys' of French India https://books.google.com/books?id=IFgnxYGdsTsC 1940 P. Varadachary 450 unknown date – Józef Maksymilian Ossoliński, Polish politician, writer, and researcher (died 1829)Applied Mechanics Reviews https://books.google.com/books?id=MEsnAQAAMAAJ&pg=SL10-PA1063-IA9 1996 American Society of Mechanical Engineers 10 Deaths March 11 – Charles Johnson, English dramatist and publican (born 1679) April 3 – Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, Swiss political theorist and man of letters (born 1694) April 13 – Christopher Pitt, English poet and translator (born 1699) August 27 – James Thomson, Scottish-born poet (born 1700)Trevor Royle Macmillan Companion to Scottish Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=SDJdDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA300 11 November 1984 Macmillan International Higher Education 978-1-349-07587-4 300 September 21 – John Balguy, English philosopher (born 1686)Richard Hurd The Early Letters of Bishop Richard Hurd, 1739-1762 https://books.google.com/books?id=zTNQLZxFIKgC&pg=PR20 1995 Boydell & Brewer 978-0-85115-653-8 20 November 25 – Isaac Watts, English hymnist, theologian, and logician (born 1674)Isaac Watts The Beauties of the Late Revd. Dr. Isaac Watts; ... To which is Added the Life of the Author https://books.google.com/books?id=2vCS6CIbOpEC&pg=PR12 1782 G. Kearsley 12 References 30em