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- CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE.
- BY
- ISAAC DISRAELI.
- A New Edition,
- EDITED, WITH MEMOIR AND NOTES, BY HIS SON, THE EARL OF BEACONSFIELD.
- IN THREE VOLUMES.
- EDITED, WITH MEMOIR AND NOTES, BY HIS SON, THE EARL OF BEACONSFIELD.
- IN THREE VOLUMES.
- A New Edition,
- VOL. I.
- ADVERTISEMENT.
- ISAAC DISRAELI.
- ON THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF MR. DISRAELI.
- TO
- FRANCIS DOUCE, ESQ.
- THESE VOLUMES OF SOME LITERARY RESEARCHES ARE INSCRIBED; AS A SLIGHT MEMORIAL OF FRIENDSHIP AND A GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT TO A LOVER OF LITERATURE.
- CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE.
- BY
- I. DISRAELI.
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.
- LIBRARIES.
- THE BIBLIOMANIA.
- LITERARY JOURNALS.
- RECOVERY OF MANUSCRIPTS.
- SKETCHES OF CRITICISM.
- THE PERSECUTED LEARNED.
- POVERTY OF THE LEARNED.
- IMPRISONMENT OF THE LEARNED.
- AMUSEMENTS OF THE LEARNED.
- PORTRAITS OF AUTHORS.
- DESTRUCTION OF BOOKS.
- SOME NOTICES OF LOST WORKS.
- QUODLIBETS, OR SCHOLASTIC DISQUISITIONS.
- FAME CONTEMNED.
- THE SIX FOLLIES OF SCIENCE.
- IMITATORS.
- CICERO'S PUNS.
- PREFACES.
- EARLY PRINTING.
- ERRATA.
- PATRONS.
- POETS, PHILOSOPHERS, AND ARTISTS, MADE BY ACCIDENT.
- INEQUALITIES OF GENIUS.
- GEOGRAPHICAL STYLE.
- LEGENDS.
- THE PORT-ROYAL SOCIETY.
- THE PROGRESS OF OLD AGE IN NEW STUDIES.
- SPANISH POETRY.
- SAINT EVREMOND.
- MEN OF GENIUS DEFICIENT IN CONVERSATION.
- VIDA.
- THE SCUDERIES.
- DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULT.
- PRIOR'S HANS CARVEL.
- THE STUDENT IN THE METROPOLIS.
- THE TALMUD.
- RABBINICAL STORIES.
- ON THE CUSTOM OF SALUTING AFTER SNEEZING.
- BONAVENTURE DE PERIERS.
- GROTIUS.
- NOBLEMEN TURNED CRITICS.
- LITERARY IMPOSTURES.
- CARDINAL RICHELIEU.
- ARISTOTLE AND PLATO.
- ABELARD AND ELOISA.
- PHYSIOGNOMY.
- CHARACTERS DESCRIBED BY MUSICAL NOTES.
- MILTON.
- ORIGIN OF NEWSPAPERS.
- TRIALS AND PROOFS OF GUILT IN SUPERSTITIOUS AGES.
- THE INQUISITION.
- SINGULARITIES OBSERVED BY VARIOUS NATIONS IN THEIR REPASTS.
- MONARCHS.
- OF THE TITLES OF ILLUSTRIOUS, HIGHNESS, AND EXCELLENCE.
- TITLES OF SOVEREIGNS.
- ROYAL DIVINITIES.
- DETHRONED MONARCHS
- FEUDAL CUSTOMS.
- GAMING.
- THE ARABIC CHRONICLE.
- METEMPSYCHOSIS.
- SPANISH ETIQUETTE.
- THE GOTHS AND HUNS.
- VICARS OF BRAY.
- DOUGLAS.
- CRITICAL HISTORY OF POVERTY.
- SOLOMON AND SHEBA.
- HELL.
- THE ABSENT MAN.
- WAX-WORK.
- PASQUIN AND MARFORIO.
- FEMALE BEAUTY AND ORNAMENTS.
- MODERN PLATONISM.
- ANECDOTES OF FASHION.
- STANZAS
- ADDRESSED TO LAURA, ENTREATING HER NOT TO PAINT, TO POWDER, OR TO GAME, BUT TO RETREAT INTO THE COUNTRY.
- ADDRESSED TO LAURA, ENTREATING HER NOT TO PAINT, TO POWDER, OR TO GAME, BUT TO RETREAT INTO THE COUNTRY.
- STANZAS
- A SENATE OF JESUITS.
- THE LOVER'S HEART.
- THE HISTORY OF GLOVES.
- RELICS OF SAINTS.
- PERPETUAL LAMPS OF THE ANCIENTS.
- NATURAL PRODUCTIONS RESEMBLING ARTIFICIAL COMPOSITIONS.
- THE POETICAL GARLAND OF JULIA.
- TRAGIC ACTORS.
- JOCULAR PREACHERS.
- MASTERLY IMITATORS.
- EDWARD THE FOURTH.
- ELIZABETH.
- THE CHINESE LANGUAGE.
- MEDICAL MUSIC.
- MINUTE WRITING.
- NUMERICAL FIGURES.
- ENGLISH ASTROLOGERS.
- ALCHYMY.
- TITLES OF BOOKS.
- LITERARY FOLLIES.
- LITERARY CONTROVERSY.
- LITERARY BLUNDERS.
- A LITERARY WIFE.
- DEDICATIONS.
- PHILOSOPHICAL DESCRIPTIVE POEMS.
- PAMPHLETS.
- LITTLE BOOKS.
- A CATHOLIC'S REFUTATION.
- THE GOOD ADVICE OF AN OLD LITERARY SINNER.
- MYSTERIES, MORALITIES, FARCES, AND SOTTIES.
- LOVE AND FOLLY, AN ANCIENT MORALITY.
- RELIGIOUS NOUVELLETTES.
- "CRITICAL SAGACITY," AND "HAPPY CONJECTURE;" OR, BENTLEY'S MILTON.
- A JANSENIST DICTIONARY.
- MANUSCRIPTS AND BOOKS.
- THE TURKISH SPY.
- SPENSER, JONSON, AND SHAKSPEARE.
- BEN JONSON, FELTHAM, AND RANDOLPH.
- AN ANSWER TO THE ODE, COME LEAVE THE LOATHED STAGE, &C.
- AN ANSWER TO MR. BEN JONSON'S ODE, TO PERSUADE HIM NOT TO LEAVE THE STAGE.
- AN ANSWER TO MR. BEN JONSON'S ODE, TO PERSUADE HIM NOT TO LEAVE THE STAGE.
- AN ANSWER TO THE ODE, COME LEAVE THE LOATHED STAGE, &C.
- ARIOSTO AND TASSO.
- BAYLE.
- CERVANTES.
- MAGLIABECHI.
- ABRIDGERS.
- PROFESSORS OF PLAGIARISM AND OBSCURITY.
- LITERARY DUTCH.
- THE PRODUCTIONS OF THE MIND NOT SEIZABLE BY CREDITORS.
- CRITICS.
- ANECDOTES OF CENSURED AUTHORS.
- VIRGINITY.
- A GLANCE INTO THE FRENCH ACADEMY.
- POETICAL AND GRAMMATICAL DEATHS.
- SCARRON.
- PETER CORNEILLE.
- POETS.
- ROMANCES.
- THE ASTREA.
- POETS LAUREAT.
- ANGELO POLITIAN.
- ORIGINAL LETTER OF QUEEN ELIZABETH.
- LETTER.
- ANNE BULLEN.
- JAMES THE FIRST.
- GENERAL MONK AND HIS WIFE.
- PHILIP AND MARY.
- FOOTNOTES:
- END OF VOL. I.
- END OF VOL. I.
- FOOTNOTES:
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