====================================+==================================== | 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. HOR.