Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3
Isaac Disraeli
Literature & Fiction
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME III.
LOCAL DESCRIPTIONS.
MASQUES.
OF DES MAIZEAUX, AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF ANTHONY COLLINS’S MANUSCRIPTS.
HISTORY OF NEW WORDS.
THE PHILOSOPHY OF PROVERBS.
CONFUSION OF WORDS.
POLITICAL NICKNAMES.
THE DOMESTIC LIFE OF A POET.—SHENSTONE VINDICATED.
SECRET HISTORY OF THE BUILDING OF BLENHEIM.
SECRET HISTORY OF SIR WALTER RAWLEIGH.66
AN AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE OF THE LAST HOURS OF SIR WALTER RAWLEIGH.
LITERARY UNIONS.
OF A BIOGRAPHY PAINTED.
CAUSE AND PRETEXT.
POLITICAL FORGERIES AND FICTIONS.
EXPRESSION OF SUPPRESSED OPINION.
AUTOGRAPHS.105
THE HISTORY OF WRITING-MASTERS.
THE ITALIAN HISTORIANS.
OF PALACES BUILT BY MINISTERS.
“TAXATION NO TYRANNY!”
THE BOOK OF DEATH.
HISTORY OF THE SKELETON OF DEATH.
THE RIVAL BIOGRAPHERS OF HEYLIN.
OF LENGLET DU FRESNOY.
THE DICTIONARY OF TREVOUX.
QUADRIO’S ACCOUNT OF ENGLISH POETRY.
“POLITICAL RELIGIONISM.”
TOLERATION.
APOLOGY FOR THE PARISIAN MASSACRE.
PREDICTION.
DREAMS AT THE DAWN OF PHILOSOPHY.
ON PUCK THE COMMENTATOR.
LITERARY FORGERIES.
OF LITERARY FILCHERS.
OF LORD BACON AT HOME.
SECRET HISTORY OF THE DEATH OF QUEEN ELIZABETH.
JAMES THE FIRST AS A FATHER AND A HUSBAND.
THE MAN OF ONE BOOK.
A BIBLIOGNOSTE.
SECRET HISTORY OF AN ELECTIVE MONARCHY.
BUILDINGS IN THE METROPOLIS, AND RESIDENCE IN THE COUNTRY.
ROYAL PROCLAMATIONS.
TRUE SOURCES OF SECRET HISTORY.
LITERARY RESIDENCES.
WHETHER ALLOWABLE TO RUIN ONESELF?
DISCOVERIES OF SECLUDED MEN.
SENTIMENTAL BIOGRAPHY.
LITERARY PARALLELS.
THE PEARL BIBLES AND SIX THOUSAND ERRATA.
VIEW OF A PARTICULAR PERIOD OF THE STATE OF RELIGION IN OUR CIVIL WARS.
BUCKINGHAM’S POLITICAL COQUETRY WITH THE PURITANS.
SIR EDWARD COKE’S EXCEPTIONS AGAINST THE HIGH SHERIFF’S OATH.
SECRET HISTORY OF CHARLES THE FIRST AND HIS FIRST PARLIAMENTS.
THE RUMP.
LIFE AND HABITS OF A LITERARY ANTIQUARY.—OLDYS AND HIS MANUSCRIPTS.
INDEX.
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