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Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3

Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3

by Isaac D'ISRAELI (1766 - 1848)

This is the third and final volume of Isaac D'Israeli's monumental work Curiosities of Literature. It covers a great range of diverse topics, by no means limited to literature only, but also containing numerous essays on history, politics, and customs of English society. Therefore, this book will not only interest students of literature, but any reader should be able to find something matching his or her particular interests. - Summary by Carolin


Secret History of Charles the First and his first Parliaments, part 2

Secret History of Charles the First and his first Parliaments, part 3

Life and Habits of a literary Antiquary - Oldys and his Manuscripts, part 2

A Bibliognoste

An authentic Narrative of the last Hours of Sir Walter Rawleigh

Apology for the Parisian Massacre

Autographs

Buckingham’s political Coquetry with the Puritans

Buildings in the Metropolis, and Residence in the Country

Cause and Pretext

Confusion of Words

Discoveries of secluded Men

Dreams at the Dawn of Philosophy

Expression of suppressed Opinion

History of new Words

History of the Skeleton of Death

James the First as a Father and a Husband

Life and Habits of a literary Antiquary - Oldys and his Manuscripts, part 1

Literary Forgeries

Literary Parallels

Literary Residences

Literary Unions

Local Descriptions

Masques

Of a Biography Painted

Of des Maizeaux, and the secret History of Anthony Collins’s Manuscripts

Of Lenglet du Fresnoy

Of Literary Filchers

Of Lord Bacon at Home

Of Palaces built by Ministers

On Puck the Commentator

Political Forgeries and Fictions

Political Nicknames

'Political Religionism'

Prediction, part 1

Prediction, part 2

Quadrio’s Account of English Poetry

Royal Proclamations

Secret History of an elective Monarchy

Secret History of Charles the First and his first Parliaments, part 1

Secret History of Sir Walter Rawleigh

Secret History of the Building of Blenheim

Secret History of the Death of Queen Elizabeth

Sentimental Biography

Sir Edward Coke’s Exceptions against the high Sheriff’s Oath

'Taxation no Tyranny'

The Book of Death

The Dictionary of Trevoux

The domestic Life of a Poet - Shenstone vindicated

The History of Writing-masters

The Italian Historians

The Man of one Book

The Pearl Bibles, and six Thousand Errata

The Philosophy of Proverbs, part 1

The Philosophy of Proverbs, part 2

The Philosophy of Proverbs, part 3

The Rival Biographers of Heylin

The Rump

Toleration

True Sources of secret History

View of a particular Period of the State of Religion in our Civil Wars

Whether allowable to ruin oneself?