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Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3

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 (25 hr 53 min)

Chapters

Local Descriptions

Masques

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

History of new Words

The Philosophy of Proverbs, part 1

The Philosophy of Proverbs, part 2

The Philosophy of Proverbs, part 3

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

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

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, part 1

Prediction, part 2

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, part 1

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

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

The Rump

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

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