Lucubrations

Lucubrations, which is the name I have given to all my papers, whether in volumes or half-sheets: so manifest a contradiction _in terminis_, that I wonder no sophister ever thought of it: But the other is a cavil.

The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer Jonathan Swift 1706

Pensilvania, are making a factious Use of my Name and Lucubrations.

Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 4 June 1777 1963

Many of his Lucubrations would have been published and preserved, for the Benefit of Mankind, and for his

Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 3 - 4 August 1776 1963

There are many Reasons why we, who take upon Us the Task of Diurnal or Weekly Lucubrations, should be like the River _Nilus_, sending abroad fertile Streams to every Quarter, and still keeping our Heads undiscover'd.

The Theater (1720) Sir John Falstaffe

Lucubrations in Diamond Characters upon _Drinking-Glasses_, on

The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany. Part 1 George R. [Commentator] Guffey

If Health and Fortune permit, next Season, I shall again propagate my Character in the Town; in the mean Time, to make my self the more conspicuous, I have ordered my _Lucubrations_ to be printed in a _small_ Volumn, and to have one of the Books sent down after me, which shall be chained in my Library, and go along with the

The Theater (1720) Sir John Falstaffe

Amongst which are intermixed the Lucubrations of the polite Part of the World, written upon Walls in Bog-houses, _&c.

The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany Parts 2, 3 and 4 Maximillian E. [Commentator] Novak

Amongst which are intermixed the Lucubrations of the polite Part of the World, written upon Walls in Bog-houses, _&c.

The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany. Part 1 George R. [Commentator] Guffey

The present edition has been printed from a copy of the latter issue, which, as recorded on the title-page, was "revised and corrected by the Author"; but I have had by my side, for constant reference, a complete set of the folio sheets, containing the "Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff" in the form in which they were first presented to the world.

The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 George A. Aitken

This, we told him, would put it still farther into his Power of supporting the Stage in that Reputation, to which his Lucubrations had already so much contributed; and that therefore we thought no Man had better Pretences to partake of its Success.

An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume II 1889