1758 Works - 1758 Architecture, 1758 Books, 1758 Operas, 1758 Plays, 1758 Treaties Idler, 10th Edition of Systema Naturae (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: 1758 architecture, 1758 books, 1758 operas, 1758 plays, 1758 treaties, The Idler, 10th edition of Systema Naturae, The Bench, Ca' Rezzonico, St Mary Magdalene's Church, Croome D'Abitot, St. Peter's Church, Philadelphia, Elsing Green, Heaven and Hell, Hotel de Crillon, Valentine-Varian House, Treaty of Easton, Shardeloes, Les fetes de Paphos, A Discourse on the Study of the Law, Holy Trinity Cathedral, Liep ja, Noah Webster House, 1758 in literature, The Fountain House (Doylestown, Pennsylvania), Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary, Old Barracks Museum, Leesburg Historic District (Leesburg, Virginia), Le pere de famille, Abraham A. Haring House, La fausse esclave, Anglo-Prussian Convention, Tobias Ten Eyck House and Cemeteries, The Way to Wealth, Wiawaka bateaux, Ezio, First Parish Meetinghouse, Siroe, Friends Meetinghouse (Dover, New Jersey), Asgill House, Treaty of Versailles, 1758 in architecture. Excerpt: The Idler was a series of 103 essays, all but twelve of them by Samuel Johnson, published in the London weekly the Universal Chronicle between 1758 and 1760. It is likely that the Chronicle was published for the sole purpose of including The Idler, since it had produced only one issue before the series began, and ceased publication when it finished. The authors besides Johnson were Thomas Warton, Bennet Langton, and Joshua Reynolds. Johnson's biographer, James Boswell, recalled that Johnson wrote some of the essays in The Idler "as hastily as an ordinary letter." He said that once while visiting Oxford, Johnson composed an essay due for publication the next day in the half-hour before the last post was collected. The essays were so popular that other publications began reprinting them without permission, prompting Johnson to insert a notice in the Chronicle threatening to do the same to his competitors' mater...