Lights, in public libraries, ordered in France by Charles V., i. 6; objection to, 7.
Lilly, the astrologer, notices of, i. 280-283; his great work, 282; an exquisite rogue, ib.
Lipogrammatic works, i. 293.
Lipsius, Justus, his opinions on toleration, iii. [253].
Literary Blunders, a pair of lexicographical, i. 305; instances of curious, 320-327.
Literary Composition, ii. 85-92.
Literary Controversy, specimens of Luther’s mode of managing, i. 308; Calvin’s conduct of, 309; Beza imitates Calvin’s style in, 310; opinion of Bishop Bedell on, ib.; conduct of the fathers in, ib.; grossness used in, 311; of the Nominalists and Realists, 312.
Literary Fashions, ii. 113; applause given to a work supposed to be written by a celebrated man, ib.; notices of various, ib.; love all the fashion, 114; Spenser’s Faerie Queen became one, ib.; the translation of Greek tragedies, a, ib.; of the seventeenth century, 115; of the time of Charles I., ib.; of Charles II., and of more modern times, ib.
Literary Follies, instances of various in the fantastical composition of verses, i. 293-307; strange researches made in antediluvian times to be classed with, 301-303; anecdote of a malicious one, ib.; various anecdotes concerning, 301-307.
Literary Forgeries, by Dr. Berkenhout, a letter from Peele to Marlow, i. 380; by George Steevens, iii. [297]; history of one, [299], [300]; by Horace Walpole, [302]; anecdote of Steevens and Gough, [303], [304], and notes; by De Grassis, ib.; by Annius of Viterbo, [305], and mischievous consequences of, ib.; Sanchoniathon, [306]; of Etruscan antiquities, ib.; the false Decretals of Isidore, [308]; in the prayer-book of Columbus, ib.; in the Virgil of Petrarch, ib.; by the Duke de la Vallière, [309]; by Lauder, [310]; by Psalmanazar, [311].