1734 in literature

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The Society of Dilettanti is formally founded by members of a Grand Tour as London society Dining ( dinner party ), an association of collectors, scholars and nobles. The Company connects festivities with a loving opinionated study of Greek and Roman antiquity. The group under the chairmanship of Francis Dashwood. Among the members were some members of the British aristocracy and well-known personalities such as Joshua Reynolds, David Garrick, and Richard Payne Knight Uvedale Price.
The Portuguese missionary Manuel da Assumpção begins his work to his written in Portuguese language grammar of the Bengali language.
Copies of Voltaire 's Lettres sur les Anglais philosophiques be burned. In addition, a warrant is issued to arrestieren to the author.
Le Cabinet du Philosophe, a new periodical of Pierre de Marivaux experienced a little successful start.

Jean Adam - Miscellany Poems
John Arbuthnot and other authors - Gnothi Seauton: Know Yourself, published anonymously.
Mary Barber - Poems on Several Occasions
Isaac Hawkins Browne, the Elder - On Design and Beauty, published anonymously.
Robert Dodsley - An Epistle to Mr. Pope
Stephen Duck - Truth and Falsehood

An Epistle to Lord Cobham, published in 1734, even if the book title in 1733 indicates.
An Essay on Man, fourth and final epistle. All four Epistelen (1-3 in 1733 ) were combined in 1734 published anonymously.
The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace, including the Second Satire of the Second Book of Horace, which appeared separately this year
Sober Advice From Horace, published anonymously., Parallel text in English and Latin.

Anonymous - Nouvelle instruction pour les confitures, les liqueurs, et les fruits
Jean Adam - Miscellany Poems
Joseph Addison - A Discourse on Antient and Modern Learning ( posth )
John Arbuthnot - Gnothi Seauton: Know Yourself
Francis Atterbury - Sermons
George Berkeley - The Analyst
Thomas Birch (ed.): A general dictionary historical and critical. (10 vols to 1741 )
Henry Brooke - Design and Beauty: an Epistle
Isaac Hawkins Browne - On Design and Beauty
Dimitrie Cantemir - History of the Growth and Decay of the Ottoman Empire
Robert Dodsley - An Epistle to Mr. Pope
John Jortin - Remarks on Spenser 's Poems

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - The Dean's Provocation for Writing the Lady 's Dressing - Room (based on Swift's " The Lady's Dressing Room")
Alexander Pope Essay on Man
An Epistle to Lord Cobham ( "Moral Epistle I")
The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace
Sober Advice from Horace

January 06: John Dennis, English playwright and literary critic (* 1657)
FEBRUARY 24: Marie -Jeanne Lhéritier, French writer of fairy tales (* 1664)
01 March: Roger North, English lawyer, biographer and music theorist (* 1653)
MARCH 12: Anthony Schultingh, Dutch jurist and humanist (* 1659)
April 25: Johann Conrad Dippel, English theologian (* 1673 )
Mai: Richard Cantillon, a French economist (* 1680)
JUNE 25: Johann Friedrich Riederer, German writer (* 1678)
JULY 12: Johann Gottlieb OLEARIUS, German legal scholar and historian (* 1684)
09 August: George Green Sigismund the Elder, German Lutheran theologian (* 1673 )
October - Thomas Lloyd, English lexicographer (c. 1673 )
October 18: James Moore Smythe, English playwright (* 1702)
Without exact date: Marie -Jeanne de Lhéritier Villandon, French writer (* 1664)

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