1755 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1755.
LEXICOGRAPHER. A writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.
âSelf-deprecating definition by Samuel Johnson from A Dictionary of the English Language
Events
- April 15 â Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published by the group of London booksellers who commissioned it in June 1746,[1] two months after Johnson was awarded the degree of Master of Arts (A.M.) by the University of Oxford, his alma mater.
- unknown dates
- Milton's Paradise Lost is translated into French prose by Louis Racine.
- The first New Testament in the Ume Sami language is published.
New Books
Fiction
- Charlotte Charke â The History of Mr. Henry Dumont and Miss Charlotte Evelyn
- Eliza Haywood as "Exploralibus" â The Invisible Spy
- Samuel Richardson â A Collection of ... Sentiments
- John Shebbeare â Letters on the English Nation
- Tobias Smollett â The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote
Poetry
- John Byrom â Epistle in Defence of Rhyme
- George Colman, the Elder and Bonnell Thornton (ed.) â Poems by Eminent Ladies
- John Gilbert Cooper â The Tomb of Shakespear
- David Dalrymple (editor) â Edom of Gordon: an ancient Scottish poem
- Stephen Duck â Caesar's Camp
Non-fiction
- Thomas Amory â Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain
- Theophilus Cibber â An Epistle to David Garrick
- Madame de Maintenon â Mémoires
- Philip Doddridge â Hymns Founded on Various Texts
- Henry Fielding â The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
- Aryeh Leib ben Asher Gunzberg â Shaagas Aryeh (Hebrew: ש××ת ×ר××, "Roar of the Lion")
- James Hervey â Theron and Aspasio; or a series of letters upon the most important and interesting subjects
- Benjamin Hoadly â Twenty Sermons
- Francis Hutcheson â A System of Moral Philosophy, in Three Books
- Samuel Johnson â A Dictionary of the English Language
- Ãtienne-Gabriel Morelly â Code de la nature, ou de véritable esprit de ses lois
- Frederic Louis Norden â Voyage d'Egypte et de Nubie
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau â Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men
- Charles Wesley â An Epistle to John Wesley
- Edward Young â The Centaur not Fabulous; in five letters to a friend
Drama
- John Brown â Barbarossa
- John Cleland â Titus Vespasian
- Thomas Francklin â The Orphan of China
- David Garrick â The Fairies (opera)
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing â Miss Sara Sampson
- David Mallet â Britannia
- Vicente Garcia de la Huerta â Endimión
Births
- February 17 â Dorothy Kilner, English children's writer (died 1836)
- February 21 â Anne Grant, Scottish poet (died 1838)
- March 5 â Jozef Ignác Bajza, pioneer Slovak novelist, satirist and priest (died 1836)
- March 15 â George Dyer, English poet and classicist (died 1841)
- December 31 â Thomas Grenville, English politician and book collector (died 1846)
- Unknown date â Maria Elizabetha Jacson, English writer on botany and gardening (died 1829)
- 1755/6 â Eliza Fay, English letter-writer and traveler (died 1816)
Deaths
- February 10 â Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, French satirist (born 1689)[2]
- March â Jane Collier, English novelist (born 1715)
- April 6 â Richard Rawlinson, English antiquary and cleric (born 1690)
- September 9 â Johann Lorenz von Mosheim, German Lutheran church historian (born 1693)
- December 29 â Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, French children's writer (born c. 1695)
- Unknown date â Antoni Serra Serra, Spanish religious writer (born 1708)