1760s Works - 1760 Works, 1760s Architecture, 1760s Books, 1760s Paintings, 1760s Plays, 1760s Poems, 1761 Works, 1762 Works, 1764 Works (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 43. Chapters: 1760 works, 1760s architecture, 1760s books, 1760s paintings, 1760s plays, 1760s poems, 1761 works, 1762 works, 1764 works, 1765 works, 1766 works, 1769 works, The Idler, Nannerl Notenbuch, Kuskovo, Crewe Almshouses, Nantwich, A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery, The Swing, Lowfield Heath Windmill, Petajavesi Old Church, Whistlejacket, Yukhari Govhar Agha Mosque, Bridgewater House, Runcorn, Five Orders of Periwigs, Conservati fedele, The Harvest Wagon, New Mill, Tadworth, Dragon of Wantley, Palace of Shaki Khans, Symphony No. 1, A New Chart of History, A Chart of Biography, The Four Seasons, The Nature of True Virtue, Rosedale, Casartelli Building, Or che il dover - Tali e cotanti sono, Symphony No. 4, Apotheosis of Palermo, Elements of Algebra, Piece in F for Keyboard K.33b, Sonata for Keyboard Four-hands K.19d, Krishna and Radha in a Pavilion, York Hill, Apostolicum Pascendi Minis, Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism, Blind Man's Bluff, Va, dal furor portata, Temora, Soft Flowing Avon, The Prince of Parthia, Der Tag des Gerichts. 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 repr...