Eighteenth-Century Chronology: 1739

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Literature

Samuel Johnson, Marmor Norfolciense, A Vindication of the Licensers of the Stage, translation of Crousaz's Commentary on Pope's Essay on Man
Samuel Johnson makes a long visit to the Midlands
Horace Walpole and Thomas Gray begin their Grand Tour of the Continent
Jonathan Swift, Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift

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