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1721 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1721st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 721st year of the 2nd millennium, the 21st year of the 18th century, and the 2nd year of the 1720s decade. As of the start of 1721, the ...
Robert Potter (1721 – 9 August 1804) was an English clergyman of the Church of England and a translator, poet, critic and pamphleteer. [1] He established the convention of using blank verse for Greek hexameters and rhymed verse for choruses.
November 9 – Mark Akenside, English poet (died 1770) November 16 – Johann Silberschlag, German theologian (died 1791) December 25 – William Collins, English poet (died 1759) December 27 – François Hemsterhuis, Dutch moral philosopher (died 1790) unknown date – Robert Potter, English translator, poet and cleric (died 1804) [7]
An Universal Etymological English Dictionary was a dictionary compiled by Nathan Bailey (or Nathaniel Bailey) and first published in London in 1721. It was the most popular English dictionary of the eighteenth century until the publication of Samuel Johnson 's massive dictionary in 1755.
Huggins only supplied the annotations. At his death he left in manuscript a tragedy, a farce, and a translation of Dante, of which the 'British Magazine,' 1760, published a specimen. His portrait was both painted and engraved by William Hogarth, and was to have been prefixed to the translation of Dante.
November 9 – Mark Akenside (died 1770), English poet; December 25 – William Collins (died 1759), English poet; date not known James Grainger (died 1766), Scottish-born physician, poet and translator; Robert Potter (died 1804), English translator, poet and cleric
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