* 1689 – Samuel Richardson, English writer ( d. 1761 )

The epistolary novel as a genre became popular in the 18th century in the works of such authors as Samuel Richardson, with his immensely successful novels Pamela ( 1740 ) and Clarissa ( 1749 ).

* 1761 – Samuel Richardson, English writer ( b. 1689 )

* Samuel Richardson, English novelist

* 1748: Clarissa by Samuel Richardson

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* August 19 – Samuel Richardson, English writer ( d. 1761 )

Samuel Richardson ( 19 August 1689 – 4 July 1761 ) was an 18th-century English writer and printer.

Richardson, one of nine children, was probably born in 1689 in Mackworth, Derbyshire, to Samuel and Elizabeth Richardson.

In describing his father's occupation, Richardson stated that " he was a good draughtsman and understood architecture ", and it was suggested by Samuel Richardson's son-in-law that the senior Richardson was a cabinetmaker and an exporter of mahogany while working at Aldersgate-street.

Portrait of Samuel Richardson by Joseph Highmore.

It was during this time that Richardson received a letter from Samuel Johnson asking for money to pay for a debt that Johnson was unable to afford.

Samuel Richardson.

Samuel Richardson: A Man of Letters.

* Sale, William M. Samuel Richardson: Master Printer.

* Townsend, Alex, Autonomous Voices: An Exploration of Polyphony in the Novels of Samuel Richardson, 2003, Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt / M., New York, Wien, 2003, ISBN 978-3-906769-80-6 ; US ISBN 978-0-8204-5917-2

* Samuel Richardson Society

* Samuel Richardson at the National Portrait Gallery, London

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The book Coleridge was reading before he fell asleep was Purchas, his Pilgrimage, or Relations of the World and Religions Observed in All Ages and Places Discovered, from the Creation to the Present, by the English clergyman and geographer Samuel Purchas, first written in 1613.

Die Hard with a Vengeance ( 1995 ) featured a scene where villain Simon Peter Gruber ( Jeremy Irons ) required NYPD Lt. John McClane ( Bruce Willis ) to wear a sandwich board reading " I hate niggers " while standing on a street corner in predominantly-black Harlem, resulting in McClane meeting Zeus Carver ( Samuel L. Jackson ) as Carver rescued McClane from being attacked by neighborhood toughs.

A musical adaptation by Samuel Otten was released as a musical expression of the stories to go along with the reading.

Again Dr. Samuel Orton, a neuropathologist in Iowa in 1929 sought the cause of children's reading problems and concluded that their problems were being caused by the new sight method of teaching reading.

The theory relating the name to Hebrew dāg / dâg, ' fish ', based solely upon a reading of 1 Samuel 5: 2 – 7 is discussed in Fish-god tradition below.

There he learned classics but was largely self-taught in mathematics, studying in the Library of Devonport Mechanics ' Institute and reading Rees's Cyclopaedia and Samuel Vince's Fluxions.

In 1797, according to his own account, the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge was reading about Xanadu in Purchas his Pilgrimage, fell asleep, and had an opium-inspired dream.

Even Samuel Hollander has recently explained that there is a textual basis in the classical economists for Marx's reading, although he does argue that it is an extremely narrow set of texts.

" Besides reading, Hopkins also gained skills in surveying from his grandfather, Samuel Wilkinson.

In the early nineteenth century Religio Medici was " re-discovered " by the English Romantics, firstly by Charles Lamb who introduced it to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who after reading it exclaimed, " O to write a character of this man!

On 14 May Bright came to London and wrote to the Liberal MP Samuel Whitbread that Gladstone should withdraw the Home Rule Bill and that he should not dissolve Parliament is the Bill is put forward for a second reading and is defeated in a vote: "... it would only make the Liberal split the more serious, and make it beyond the power of healing.

In 1791 Samuel Miles Hopkins, a student at the Litchfield Law School, described Litchfield in his journal as a town of " hard, active, reading, thinking, intelligent men who may probably be set forth as a pattern of the finest community on earth.

In his diary Samuel Pepys records reading and ( in an often censored passage ) masturbating over this work.

Some, such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Mark Twain, kept messy reading notes that were intermixed with other quite various material ; others, such as Thomas Hardy, followed a more formal reading-notes method that mirrored the original Renaissance practice more closely.

Revivals of his plays include a staged reading of The Lady's Not For Burning at the Royal National Theatre in 2001 as one of the 100 best plays of the 20th century, with actors Alex Jennings, Prunella Scales and Samuel West.

Similarly, in The Fifth Elephant Samuel Vimes has a near-death experience, which means that Death has a corresponding " near-Vimes experience ", in which he appears before the stricken Vimes sitting in a deckchair reading a mystery novel.

Margesson's reading of the mood led to the Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare being dropped from the government to abate feelings and keep the government in power.

Over the front of the new store on Lexington Street was a sign reading ' Samuel Hecht, Jr. & Sons ,' reflecting the development of the firm as a family enterprise.

After reading works by Richard Neustadt and Samuel P. Huntington, among others, Allison proposed a third model, which takes account of court politics ( or " palace politics ").

His passion for reading and writing bore fruit as early as 1910 when he first contributed an article on the black composer Samuel Coleridge Taylor to The Dominant.

While in his twenties, Samuel migrated to New York City and found employment reading plays for a producer on Broadway.