Curiosities of Literature, Volume III

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Author

Disraeli, Isaac, 1766-1848

Title

Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3

Credits

Produced by Marius Masi, Jonathan Ingram and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections

Subject

Litterateurs

Category

Text

eBook-No.

31078

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31078

Release Date

January 25, 2010

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.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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