1746 in literature

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The year 1746 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

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Voltaire is elected to the French Academy.
The oldest manuscript of Jean de Joinville's Life of Saint Louis is rediscovered in Brussels.
Élie Catherine Fréron founds the controversial journal, Lettres de la comtesse de...
Spranger Barry makes his London stage debut in Othello.

John Arbuthnot - Miscellanies (posth.)
John Collier as "Tim Bobbin" - A View of the Lancashire Dialect
William Collins - Odes
Thomas Cooke - A Hymn to Liberty
Zachary Grey - A Word or Two of Advice to William Warburton
James Hervey - Meditations Among the Tombs
Soame Jenyns - The Modern Fine Gentleman
Pierre Louis Maupertuis - Astronomie nautique, volume 2
Tobias Smollett - Advice
John Upton - Critical Observations on Shakespeare
Horace Walpole - The Beauties
Joseph Warton - Odes on Various Subjects
John Wesley
- The Principles of a Methodist Father Explain'd
- Sermons on Several Occasions