1746 in literature

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

Events

June - Samuel Johnson is commissioned to compile A Dictionary of the English Language by a group of London booksellers.
Probable first performance of Carlo Goldoni's comedy Servant of Two Masters (Italian: Il servitore di due padroni), at the Teatro San Samuele in Venice.
Voltaire is elected to the Académie française.
The oldest manuscript of Jean de Joinville's Life of Saint Louis is rediscovered in Brussels.
Élie Catherine Fréron founds his controversial journal Lettres de la comtesse de...
Irish actor Spranger Barry makes his London stage debut in the title role of Othello at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

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
Lauritz de Thurah - Den Danske Vitruvius, volume I
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

January 12 - Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss educational reformer (died 1827)
March 27 - Michael Bruce, Scottish poet (died 1767)
April 3 - Jean-Baptiste Cousin de Grainville, French fantasy novelist (died 1805)
December 21 - José de la Cruz (Huseng Sisiw), Filipino writer of the Spanish régime (died 1829)
date unknown - Victor d'Hupay, French philosopher (died 1818)

February 4 - Robert Blair (poet), Scottish poet (born 1699)
May 22 - Thomas Southerne, Irish dramatist (born 1660)
December 6 - Lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish poet (born 1665)
date unknown
- Anton Josef Kirchweger, Latin Pietist author
- Frederic Count de Thoms, German biographer of King Louis XIV of France (born 1669)

↑ Shōriya, Aragorō. "Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami." Kabuki21.com. Accessed 4 December 2008.

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