Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3
by Isaac D'Israeli
About this book
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
Chapters (62)
1Local Descriptions
2Masques
3Of des Maizeaux, and the secret History of Anthony Collins’s Manuscripts
4History of new Words
5The Philosophy of Proverbs, part 1
6The Philosophy of Proverbs, part 2
7The Philosophy of Proverbs, part 3
8Confusion of Words
9Political Nicknames
10The domestic Life of a Poet - Shenstone vindicated
11Secret History of the Building of Blenheim
12Secret History of Sir Walter Rawleigh
13An authentic Narrative of the last Hours of Sir Walter Rawleigh
14Literary Unions
15Of a Biography Painted
16Cause and Pretext
17Political Forgeries and Fictions
18Expression of suppressed Opinion
19Autographs
20The History of Writing-masters
21The Italian Historians
22Of Palaces built by Ministers
23'Taxation no Tyranny'
24The Book of Death
25History of the Skeleton of Death
26The Rival Biographers of Heylin
27Of Lenglet du Fresnoy
28The Dictionary of Trevoux
29Quadrio’s Account of English Poetry
30'Political Religionism'
31Toleration
32Apology for the Parisian Massacre
33Prediction, part 1
34Prediction, part 2
35Dreams at the Dawn of Philosophy
36On Puck the Commentator
37Literary Forgeries
38Of Literary Filchers
39Of Lord Bacon at Home
40Secret History of the Death of Queen Elizabeth
41James the First as a Father and a Husband
42The Man of one Book
43A Bibliognoste
44Secret History of an elective Monarchy
45Buildings in the Metropolis, and Residence in the Country
46Royal Proclamations
47True Sources of secret History
48Literary Residences
49Whether allowable to ruin oneself?
50Discoveries of secluded Men
51Sentimental Biography
52Literary Parallels
53The Pearl Bibles, and six Thousand Errata
54View of a particular Period of the State of Religion in our Civil Wars
55Buckingham’s political Coquetry with the Puritans
56Sir Edward Coke’s Exceptions against the high Sheriff’s Oath
57Secret History of Charles the First and his first Parliaments, part 1
58Secret History of Charles the First and his first Parliaments, part 2
59Secret History of Charles the First and his first Parliaments, part 3
60The Rump
61Life and Habits of a literary Antiquary - Oldys and his Manuscripts, part 1
62Life and Habits of a literary Antiquary - Oldys and his Manuscripts, part 2
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