![]() ![]() John Gilbert Cooper – The Tomb of Shakespear.George Colman, the Elder and Bonnell Thornton (ed.) – Poems by Eminent Ladies.John Byrom – Epistle in Defence of Rhyme. ![]() Tobias Smollett – The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote.John Shebbeare – Letters on the English Nation.Eliza Haywood as "Exploralibus" – The Invisible Spy.The first New Testament in the Ume Sami language is published.Milton's Paradise Lost is translated into French prose by Louis Racine.April 15 – Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published by the group of London booksellers who commissioned it in June 1746, two months after Johnson was awarded the degree of Master of Arts (A.M.) by the University of Oxford, his alma mater.Self-deprecating definition by Samuel Johnson from A Dictionary of the English Language Events A writer of dictionaries a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words. This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1755. ![]()
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