Events
- Sir Samuel Garth, poet and royal physician, is knighted by King George I of Great Britain
- Death of Queen Anne of Great Britain, which threw many writers out of position and put them into opposition.
- Accession of George I of the United Kingdom, who brought with him a whig ministry, and notably the rise of Robert Walpole and indictment and trial of both Robert Harley and Henry St. John.
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“We have defined a story as a narrative of events arranged in their time-sequence. A plot is also a narrative of events, the emphasis falling on causality. “The king died and then the queen died” is a story. “The king died, and then the queen died of grief” is a plot. The time sequence is preserved, but the sense of causality overshadows it.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)
“Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The return of the asymmetrical Saturday was one of those small events that were interior, local, almost civic and which, in tranquil lives and closed societies, create a sort of national bond and become the favorite theme of conversation, of jokes and of stories exaggerated with pleasure: it would have been a ready- made seed for a legendary cycle, had any of us leanings toward the epic.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)