| Contemporary Literature | History | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1720. | South Sea Bubble. | ||
| 1722. | Defoe's Journal of the Plague. | ||
| 1723. | Pope's Translation of the Odyssey, Volumes I, II. (Completed in 1725.) | ||
| 1724. | Swift's Drapier's Letters. | ||
| 1726. | Swift's Gulliver's Travels. | ||
| Thomson's Winter. | |||
| 1727. | Thomson's Summer. | 1727. | George I. dies; accession of George II. |
| 1728. | Gay's Beggars' Opera. | ||
| Pope's Dunciad. | |||
| Thomson's Spring. | |||
| 1729. | Swift's Modest Proposal. | ||
THE SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY PAPERS
I. THE SPECTATOR
[No. 1. Thursday, March 1, 1711. Addison.]
Non fumum ex fulgore, sed ex fumo dare lucem
Cogitat, ut speciosa dehinc miracula promat.