Deaths
- March 23 - Jean-Baptiste Dubos, French author (born 1670)
- April 27 - Nicholas Amhurst, poet and political writer (born 1697)
- July 9 - John Oldmixon, English historian (born 1673)
- July 14 - Richard Bentley, English scholar and critic (born 1662)
- July 19 - William Somervile, English poet (born 1675)
- November 24 - Andrew Bradford, American publisher (born 1686)
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“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
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