- 1749 in literature
The year 1749 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
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Oliver Goldsmith graduates fromTrinity College, Dublin .New books
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Joseph Ames - "Typographical Antiquities"
*George Berkeley - "A Word to the Wise"
* John Brown - "On Liberty"
*William Rufus Chetwood - "A General History of the Stage"
*John Cleland - "The Case of the Unfortunate Bosavern Penlez"
*John Gilbert Cooper - "The Life of Socrates"
*Henry Fielding
**"The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling "
**"The True State of the Case of Bosavern Penlez" (in reply to Cleland)
*Sarah Fielding
**"The Governess"
**"Remarks on 'Clarissa"'
*David Hartley - "Observations on Man, his Frame, his Duty, and his Expectations" (psychology)
*Eliza Haywood - "Dalinda" (novel)
*Aaron Hill - "Gideon"
*Samuel Johnson - "The Vanity of Human Wishes "
*William Law - "The Spirit of Prayer"
*William Mason - "Isis"
*Henry St. John - "Letters on the Spirit of Patriotism"
*John Wesley - "A Plain Account of the People Called Methodists"
*Gilbert West - "Odes of Pindar"New drama
* Anonymous - "Tittle Tattle" (adaptation of Swift's "Genteel and Ingenious Conversations")
*William Hawkins - "Henry and Rosamund"
*Aaron Hill - "Meropé"
*Samuel Johnson - "Irene"
*Moses Mendes - "The Chaplet" (musical, with music byWilliam Boyce )
*Tobias Smollett - "The Regicide"
* James Thomson - "Coriolanus"Poetry
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William Collins - "Ode Occasion'd by the death of Mr. Thomson"
* Thomas Cooke - "An Ode on Beauty"
*Henry Jones - "Poems"Births
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January 13 :Friedrich Müller , painter, narrator, lyricist and dramatist, also known as "Maler Müller" (died1825 )
*May 4 -Charlotte Smith , poet and novelist (died1806 )
*August 28 :Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (died1832 )Deaths
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June 19 -Ambrose Philips , English poet (born 1675)
*September 10 -Emilie du Chatelet , French scientific writer, mistress ofVoltaire and translator into French ofIsaac Newton 'sPrincipia (born 1706)
*Samuel Boyse , poet and playwright
*Matthew Concanen , wit and poet
*Catherine Cockburn Trotter , playwright
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