Curiosities of Literature - Volume I Part 4
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Volume I Part 4

THE CHINESE LANGUAGE 267

MEDICAL MUSIC 269

MINUTE WRITING 275

NUMERICAL FIGURES 276

ENGLISH ASTROLOGERS 278

ALCHYMY 283

t.i.tLES OF BOOKS 288

LITERARY FOLLIES 293

LITERARY CONTROVERSY 308

LITERARY BLUNDERS 320

A LITERARY WIFE 327

DEDICATIONS 337

PHILOSOPHIC DESCRIPTIVE POEMS 341

PAMPHLETS 343

LITTLE BOOKS 347

A CATHOLIC'S REFUTATION 349

THE GOOD ADVICE OF AN OLD LITERARY SINNER 350

MYSTERIES, MORALITIES, FARCES, AND SOTTIES 352

LOVE AND FOLLY, AN ANCIENT MORALITY 362

RELIGIOUS NOUVELLETTES 363

"CRITICAL SAGACITY," AND "HAPPY CONJECTURE;" OR, BENTLEY'S MILTON 370

A JANSENIST DICTIONARY 373

Ma.n.u.sCRIPTS AND BOOKS 375

THE TURKISH SPY 377

SPENSER, JONSON, AND SHAKSPEARE 379

BEN JONSON, FELTHAM, AND RANDOLPH 381

ARIOSTO AND Ta.s.sO 386

BAYLE 391

CERVANTES 394

MAGLIABECHI 394

ABRIDGERS 397

PROFESSORS OF PLAGIARISM AND OBSCURITY 400

LITERARY DUTCH 403

THE PRODUCTIONS OF THE MIND NOT SEIZABLE BY CREDITORS 405

CRITICS 406

ANECDOTES OF CENSURED AUTHORS 408

VIRGINITY 412

A GLANCE INTO THE FRENCH ACADEMY 413

POETICAL AND GRAMMATICAL DEATHS 417

SCARRON 421

PETER CORNEILLE 428

POETS 432

ROMANCES 442

THE ASTREA 451

POETS LAUREAT 454

ANGELO POLITIAN 456

ORIGINAL LETTER OF QUEEN ELIZABETH 460

ANNE BULLEN 461

JAMES THE FIRST 462

GENERAL MONK AND HIS WIFE 468