LONDON:
FREDERICK WARNE AND CO.
AND NEW YORK
CONTENTS OF VOLUME III.
| PAGE | |
| LOCAL DESCRIPTIONS | [1] |
| MASQUES | [4] |
| OF DES MAIZEAUX, AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF ANTHONY COLLINS’S MANUSCRIPTS | [13] |
| HISTORY OF NEW WORDS | [23] |
| THE PHILOSOPHY OF PROVERBS | [32] |
| CONFUSION OF WORDS | [65] |
| POLITICAL NICKNAMES | [80] |
| THE DOMESTIC LIFE OF A POET—SHENSTONE VINDICATED | [90] |
| SECRET HISTORY OF THE BUILDING OF BLENHEIM | [102] |
| SECRET HISTORY OF SIR WALTER RAWLEIGH | [111] |
| AN AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE OF THE LAST HOURS OF SIR WALTER RAWLEIGH | [124] |
| LITERARY UNIONS | [131] |
| OF A BIOGRAPHY PAINTED | [136] |
| CAUSE AND PRETEXT | [141] |
| POLITICAL FORGERIES AND FICTIONS | [144] |
| EXPRESSION OF SUPPRESSED OPINION | [150] |
| AUTOGRAPHS | [163] |
| THE HISTORY OF WRITING-MASTERS | [167] |
| THE ITALIAN HISTORIANS | [177] |
| OF PALACES BUILT BY MINISTERS | [186] |
| “TAXATION NO TYRANNY” | [193] |
| THE BOOK OF DEATH | [200] |
| HISTORY OF THE SKELETON OF DEATH | [206] |
| THE RIVAL BIOGRAPHERS OF HEYLIN | [215] |
| OF LENGLET DU FRESNOY | [221] |
| THE DICTIONARY OF TREVOUX | [229] |
| QUADRIO’S ACCOUNT OF ENGLISH POETRY | [233] |
| “POLITICAL RELIGIONISM” | [238] |
| TOLERATION | [245] |
| APOLOGY FOR THE PARISIAN MASSACRE | [255] |
| PREDICTION | [260] |
| DREAMS AT THE DAWN OF PHILOSOPHY | [280] |
| ON PUCK THE COMMENTATOR | [296] |
| LITERARY FORGERIES | [303] |
| OF LITERARY FILCHERS | [316] |
| OF LORD BACON AT HOME | [320] |
| SECRET HISTORY OF THE DEATH OF QUEEN ELIZABETH | [328] |
| JAMES THE FIRST AS A FATHER AND A HUSBAND | [333] |
| THE MAN OF ONE BOOK | [337] |
| A BIBLIOGNOSTE | [340] |
| SECRET HISTORY OF AN ELECTIVE MONARCHY | [346] |
| BUILDINGS IN THE METROPOLIS, AND RESIDENCE IN THE COUNTRY | [363] |
| ROYAL PROCLAMATIONS | [371] |
| TRUE SOURCES OF SECRET HISTORY | [380] |
| LITERARY RESIDENCES | [394] |
| WHETHER ALLOWABLE TO RUIN ONESELF? | [400] |
| DISCOVERIES OF SECLUDED MEN | [408] |
| SENTIMENTAL BIOGRAPHY | [414] |
| LITERARY PARALLELS | [425] |
| THE PEARL BIBLES, AND SIX THOUSAND ERRATA | [427] |
| VIEW OF A PARTICULAR PERIOD OF THE STATE OF RELIGION IN OUR CIVIL WARS | [423] |
| BUCKINGHAM’S POLITICAL COQUETRY WITH THE PURITANS | [443] |
| SIR EDWARD COKE’S EXCEPTIONS AGAINST THE HIGH SHERIFF’S OATH | [446] |
| SECRET HISTORY OF CHARLES THE FIRST AND HIS FIRST PARLIAMENTS | [448] |
| THE RUMP | [482] |
| LIFE AND HABITS OF A LITERARY ANTIQUARY—OLDYS AND HIS MANUSCRIPTS | [493] |
| INDEX | [513] |
CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE.