1749

Showing 5 works across all media from 1749

Catholic mass · Baroque music

Mass in B minor

Johann Sebastian Bach and John Eliot Gardiner

1749

Bach assembled it late in life partly from music he had written decades earlier, and never heard the whole thing performed in his lifetime.

★ 9.4

Fiction · Picaresque

The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling

Henry Fielding

1749 · 1024 pages

Found as a baby in a squire's bed, Tom grows up generous and reckless, loses his home, and follows Sophia Western to London. Coleridge ranked the plot beside that of Oedipus.

★ 7.3

Novel · Coming of age story · Picaresque

There are a set of religious, or rather moral writers, who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery, in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

Henry Fielding

Tom Jones · 1749

★ 4.3

Almanac

Drink does not drown Care, but waters it and makes it grow faster.

Benjamin Franklin

1749

★ 3.9

Almanac

If Passion drives, let Reason hold the Reins.

Benjamin Franklin

1749

★ 3.9