Curiosities of Literature
by Isaac D’Israeli (1766-1848)
Archives
Postscriptum
Miscellanists
On the Life and Writings of Mr. Disraeli, by His Son
Preface to the Eleventh Edition
Preface to the Ninth Edition
Preface to the First Edition of the Second Series
Preface to the Fifth Edition
Ode on the Death of Marianne
Haller
The Fatal Letter
Dutchess of Richmond
Account of a Singular Atrabilarian or Hypochondriac
Alps
Man Not a Fish nor Bird
A Crystal Summer-House
Some Ancient Wonders Explained by Moderns
Painting
Ingenious Pieces of Mechanism
Imaginations and Antipathies
Duels
France and England
The Lake of Alba
Religious Government, when Despotic, Impolitical
Hieroglyphicks of the Egyptians
Written Characters
Adventurers
Monastic Institutions
The Four Perfect Women!
Magical Superstitions
John Boyle, Earl of Corke and Orrery
Anecdotes from Manuscripts
Grammarians
Milton
Literary Projects
Preface to “Volume the Second”
The Poem of Haller Versified
A Desire to Regain his Native Country
On the Poetry of Baron Haller
On the Use of the Pagan Mythology in Poetry
Of the Samaritan, Chaldaic, Syriac, Ethiopian, Persian, Armenian, Tartarian, and Chinese Languages
The Hebrew
Arabic
An Account of a Curious Philological Book
The Living Language
Language
The French Language
Character of the French, the Spanish, and the Italian Languages
The Dutch and German Languages
The English Language
The Latin Tongue
The Mother Tongues
Attic Pleasantries
French and Spaniards
Genealogy
A Traveller’s Singularities
The Promises of the Fair Written on the Sea Sands
Amber-gris
Babylon, Thebes, and Nineveh
Infectious Diseases
Bleeding and Evacuation, Two Remedies for Love
Light Summer Showers Forming Burning Mirrors
Roman Roads
Ætna and Vesuvius
Chinese Physicians
Pious Frauds
Monks
Anatomists
Animals Imitate Language and Action
Origin of Several Valuable Discoveries
Locusts
Curious Automatons
Adam Not the First Man
On the Fair Sex Having No Souls; and On Old Women
“A Heavy Heart”
Singular Memories
Parr and Jenkins
William the Conqueror
“King of England, France, &c.”
Charles the First
Cromwell
Historian
Slavery
Patriotic Malevolence
The Body of Cæsar
Pope Sixtus the Fifth
The Italians
The Athenians
Charles the Fifth
The Thirteen Cantons
The Pouliats and The Pouliches
The Great and Little Turk
Enchanted Tapestry
America
Transubstantiation
Protestants
Spanish Monks
English Ladies
Dispensations for Marriage
Religious Enmity
Mutual Persecution
Virgil
Translation
Noah and Saturn
Scripture Expressions Derived from Customs
A Visionary’s Book
Samuel Purchas
On The Adjective “Pretty”
De Thou
Innovation
The Plinies
Guy Patin
The Florence Professor
The Athenian Tribunal for Dramatic Composition
Matthew Paris
The Scaligers
Tertullian
Martin Luther and Calvin
Gibbon
Metaphors
The Art of Criticism
On Teaching the Classics
The Belles Lettres
Severe Criticism
The Fathers of the Church
Arabic Proverbs
Saints Carrying their Heads in their Hands
Books of Love and Devotion
On the Editions of the Classics, in Usum Delphini
On the Notes Variorum
Taste
Descartes and Harvey
Friar Bacon
On the Phrase—“The Law and the Prophets”
Criticism
Tartarian Libraries
The Republic of Letters
Preface to the Third Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Editor’s Note
Life and Habits of a Literary Antiquary
The Rump
Secret History of Charles I. and his First Parliaments
Sir Edward Coke’s Exceptions Against the High Sheriff’s Oath
Buckingham’s Political Coquetry with the Puritans
View of a Particular Period of the State of Religion in Our Civil Wars
The Pearl Bibles, and Six Thousand Errata
Literary Parallels
Sentimental Biography
Discoveries of Secluded Men
Whether Allowable to Ruin Oneself?
Literary Residences
True Sources of Secret History
Royal Proclamations
Buildings in the Metropolis, and Residence in the Country
Secret History of an Elective Monarchy
A Bibliognoste
The Man of One Book
James the First, as a Father and a Husband
Secret History of the Death of Queen Elizabeth
Of Lord Bacon at Home
Of Literary Filchers
Literary Forgeries
On Puck the Commentator
Dreams at the Dawn of Philosophy
Prediction
Apology for the Parisian Massacre
Toleration
“Political Religionism”
Quadrio’s Account of English Poetry
The Dictionary of Trevoux
Of Lenglet du Fresnoy
The Rival Biographers of Heylin
History of the Skeleton of Death
The Book of Death
“Taxation no Tyranny”
Of Palaces Built by Ministers
The Italian Historians
The History of Writing-Masters
Autographs
Expression of Suppressed Opinion
Political Forgeries and Fictions
Cause and Pretext
Of a Biography Painted
Literary Unions
An Authentic Narrative of the Last Hours of Sir Walter Rawleigh
Secret History of Sir Walter Rawleigh
Secret History of the Building of Blenheim
The Domestic Life of a Poet—Shenstone Vindicated
Political Nicknames
Confusion of Words
The Philosophy of Proverbs
History of New Words
Of Des Maizeaux, and the Secret History of Anthony Collins’s Manuscripts
Masques
Local Descriptions
Secret History of Authors who have Ruined their Booksellers
Of Coke’s Style, and His Conduct
Domestic History of Sir Edward Coke
The Loves of “The Lady Arabella”
Ben Jonson on Translation
Shenstone’s Schoolmistress
On the Hero of Hudibras; Butler Vindicated
On the Ridiculous Titles Assumed by the Italian Academies
Psalm-Singing
Medicine and Morals
Anecdotes of the Fairfax Family
Parodies
Of Suppressors and Dilapidators of Manuscripts
Of False Political Reports
Of a History of Events Which Have not Happened
The Origin of Dante’s Inferno
Quotation
An English Academy of Literature
The History of the Caraccis
Cicero Viewed as a Collector
Characteristics of Bayle
Modern Literature—Bayle’s Critical Dictionary
Johnson’s Hints for the Life of Pope
Felton, the Political Assassin
The Minister—Duke of Buckingham, Lord Admiral, Lord General, &c. &c. &c.
The Minister—The Cardinal Duke of Richelieu
The Secret History of Charles I. and his Queen Henrietta
Charles the First’s Love of the Fine Arts
Introduction of Tea, Coffee, and Chocolate
Tom O’ Bedlams
Acajou and Zirphile
Condemned Poets
Literary Anecdotes
Drinking-Customs in England
The History of the Theatre During its Suppression
Catholic and Protestant Dramas
Robinson Crusoe
Reliquiæ Gethinianæ
Ancient and Modern Saturnalia
Ancient Cookery and Cooks
Secret History of Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford
Names of Our Streets
Orthography of Proper Names
Of Anagrams and Echo Verses
Licensers of the Press
Diaries—Moral, Historical, and Critical
The Diary of a Master of the Ceremonies
Anecdotes of Prince Henry, the Son of James I., when a Child
Elizabeth and her Parliament
Chidiock Titchbourne
Usurers of the Seventeenth Century
Introducers of Exotic Flowers, Fruits, &c.
Songs of Trades, or Songs for the People
Massinger, Milton, and the Italian Theatre
Extempore Comedies
The Pantomimical Characters
Literary Fashions
Explanation of the Fac-Simile
Poetical Imitations and Similarities
Literary Composition
Popes
On the Custom of Kissing Hands
The Sovereignty of the Seas
The Jews of York
Influence of Names
Theological Style
Richardson
Anecdotes of Abstraction of Mind
Literary Friendships
Anecdotes of Solitude
The Comedy of a Madman!
A Contrivance in Dramatic Dialogue
The Marriage of the Arts
The Early Drama
Anecdotes of European Manners
Origin of the Materials of Writing
The Bible Prohibited and Improved
Fire, and the Origin of Fireworks
Singularities of War
Modes of Salutation, and Amicable Ceremonies, Observed in Various Nations
Nobility
Royal Promotions
The Death of Charles IX.
Duke of Buckingham
Charles the First
Philip and Mary
General Monk and His Wife
James I.
Anne Bullen
Original Letter of Queen Elizabeth
Angelo Politian
Poets Laureat
The Astrea
Romances
Poets
Peter Corneille
Scarron
Poetical and Grammatical Deaths
A Glance Into the French Academy
Virginity
Anecdotes of Authors Censured
Critics
The Productions of the Mind Not Seizable by Creditors
Literary Dutch
Professors of Plagiarism and Obscurity
Abridgers
Magliabechi
Cervantes
Bayle
Venice
Ariosto and Tasso
Ben Jonson, Feltham, and Randolph
Spenser, Jonson, and Shakespeare
The Turkish Spy
Manuscripts and Books
A Jansenist Dictionary
“Critical Sagacity,” and “Happy Conjecture;” or, Bentley’s Milton
Religious Nouvelettes
Love and Folly, an Ancient Morality
Mysteries, Moralities, Farces, and Sotties
The Good Advice of an Old Literary Sinner
A Catholic’s Refutation
Little Books
Pamphlets
Philosophical Descriptive Poems
Dedications
A Literary Wife
Literary Blunders
Literary Controversy
Literary Follies
Titles of Books
Alchymy
English Astrologers
Numerical Figures
Minute Writing
Medical Music
The Chinese Language
Elizabeth
Edward the Fourth
Masterly Imitators
Jocular Preachers
Tragic Actors
The Poetical Garland of Julia
Natural Productions Resembling Artificial Compositions
Perpetual Lamps of the Ancients
Relics of Saints
The History of Gloves
The Lover’s Heart
A Senate of Jesuits
Anecdotes of Fashion
Modern Platonism
Female Beauty and Ornaments
Pasquin and Marforio
Wax-Work
The Absent Man
Hell
Solomon and Sheba
Critical History of Poverty
Douglas
The Vicars of Bray
The Goths and Huns
Spanish Etiquette
Metempsychosis
The Arabic Chronicle
Gaming
Joan of Arc
Feudal Customs
Dethroned Monarchs
Royal Divinities
Titles of Sovereigns
Of the Titles of Illustrious, Highness, and Excellence
Monarchs
Singularities Observed by Various Nations in their Repasts
Inquisition
Trials and Proofs of Guilt in Superstitious Ages
Origin of Newspapers
Milton
Characters Described by Musical Notes
Physiognomy
Abelard and Eloisa
Aristotle and Plato
Cardinal Richelieu
Literary Impostures
Noblemen Turned Critics
Grotius
Bonaventure de Periers
On the Custom of Saluting After Sneezing
Rabbinical Stories
The Talmud
The Student in the Metropolis
Prior’s Hans Carvel
De La Rochefoucault
The Scuderies
Vida
Men of Genius Deficient in Conversation
Saint Evremond
Spanish Poetry
The Progress of Old Age in New Studies
The Port-Royal Society
Legends
Geographical Diction
Conception and Expression
Inequalities of Genius
Poets, Philosophers, and Artists, Made by Accident
Patrons
Errata
Early Printing
Some Ingenious Thoughts
The Ancients and Moderns
Prefaces
Cicero’s Puns
Imitators
The Six Follies of Science
Fame Contemned
Quodlibets, or Scholastic Disquisitions
Some Notices of Lost Works
Destruction of Books
Portraits of Authors
Amusements of the Learned
Imprisonment of the Learned
Poverty of the Learned
The Persecuted Learned
Sketches of Criticism
Recovery of Manuscripts
Literary Journals
The Bibliomania
Libraries
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Preface to the Fifth Edition
Ode on the Death of Marianne
Haller
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