Curiosities of
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共 233 题- CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE.
- BY
- ISAAC DISRAELI.
- A New Edition
- EDITED, WITH MEMOIR AND NOTES,
- BY HIS SON,
- THE EARL OF BEACONSFIELD.
- IN THREE VOLUMES.
- VOL. II.
- LONDON: FREDERICK WARNE AND CO. AND NEW YORK
- CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.
- CHARLES THE FIRST. 1
- DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM. 5
- THE DEATH OF CHARLES IX. 7
- ROYAL PROMOTIONS. 10
- NOBILITY 11
- FIRE, AND THE ORIGIN OF FIREWORKS. 15
- THE BIBLE PROHIBITED AND IMPROVED. 19
- ORIGIN OF THE MATERIALS OF WRITING. 23
- ANECDOTES OF EUROPEAN MANNERS. 30
- THE EARLY DRAMA. 40
- THE MARRIAGE OF THE ARTS. 43
- A CONTRIVANCE IN DRAMATIC DIALOGUE. 47
- THE COMEDY OF A MADMAN. 48
- SOLITUDE 50
- LITERARY FRIENDSHIPS. 55
- ANECDOTES OF ABSTRACTION OF MIND. 59
- RICHARDSON. 62
- INFLUENCE OF A NAME. 65
- THE JEWS OF YORK. 75
- THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE SEAS. 79
- ON THE CUSTOM OF KISSING HANDS. 81
- POPES. 83
- LITERARY COMPOSITION. 85
- POETICAL IMITATIONS AND SIMILARITIES. 92
- EXPLANATION OF THE FAC-SIMILE. 110
- LITERARY FASHIONS. 113
- THE PANTOMIMICAL CHARACTERS. 116
- EXTEMPORAL COMEDIES. 130
- MASSINGER, MILTON, AND THE ITALIAN THEATRE. 137
- SONGS OF TRADES, OR SONGS FOR THE PEOPLE. 142
- INTRODUCERS OF EXOTIC FLOWERS, FRUITS, ETC. 151
- USURERS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. 158
- CHIDIOCK TITCHBOURNE. 171
- ELIZABETH AND HER PARLIAMENT. 179
- THE DIARY OF A MASTER OF THE CEREMONIES. 194
- DIARIES--MORAL, HISTORICAL, AND CRITICAL. 206
- LICENSERS OF THE PRESS. 216
- OF ANAGRAMS AND ECHO VERSES. 229
- ORTHOGRAPHY OF PROPER NAMES. 237
- NAMES OF OUR STREETS. 239
- SECRET HISTORY OF EDWARD VERE, EARL OF OXFORD. 243
- ANCIENT COOKERY, AND COOKS. 245
- ANCIENT AND MODERN SATURNALIA. 256
- RELIQUIÆ GETHINIANÆ. 270
- ROBINSON CRUSOE. 274
- CATHOLIC AND PROTESTANT DRAMAS. 277
- THE HISTORY OF THE THEATRE DURING ITS SUPPRESSION. 281
- DRINKING-CUSTOMS IN ENGLAND. 292
- LITERARY ANECDOTES. 300
- CONDEMNED POETS. 303
- ACAJOU AND ZIRPHILE. 308
- TOM O'BEDLAMS. 311
- INTRODUCTION OF TEA, COFFEE, AND CHOCOLATE. 317
- CHARLES THE FIRST'S LOVE OF THE FINE ARTS. 326
- SECRET HISTORY OF CHARLES THE FIRST, AND HIS QUEEN HENRIETTA. 836
- THE MINISTER--THE CARDINAL DUKE OF RICHELIEU. 340
- FELTON, THE POLITICAL ASSASSIN. 371
- JOHNSON'S HINTS FOR THE LIFE OF POPE. 380
- MODERN LITERATURE--BAYLE'S CRITICAL DICTIONARY. 382
- CHARACTERISTICS OF BAYLE. 383
- CICERO VIEWED AS A COLLECTOR. 396
- THE HISTORY OF THE CARACCI. 399
- AN ENGLISH ACADEMY OF LITERATURE. 406
- QUOTATION. 416
- THE ORIGIN OF DANTE'S INFERNO. 421
- OF A HISTORY OF EVENTS WHICH HAVE NOT HAPPENED. 428
- OF FALSE POLITICAL REPORTS. 438
- OF SUPPRESSORS AND DILAPIDATORS OF MANUSCRIPTS. 443
- PARODIES. 453
- ANECDOTES OF THE FAIRFAX FAMILY. 461
- MEDICINE AND MORALS. 464
- PSALM-SINGING. 472
- ON THE RIDICULOUS TITLES ASSUMED BY ITALIAN ACADEMIES. 479
- ON THE HERO OF HUDIBRAS; BUTLER VINDICATED. 491
- SHENSTONE'S SCHOOL-MISTRESS. 496
- BEN JONSON ON TRANSLATION. 500
- THE LOVES OF "THE LADY ARABELLA." 502
- DOMESTIC HISTORY OF SIR EDWARD COKE. 519
- OF COKE'S STYLE, AND HIS CONDUCT. 530
- SECRET HISTORY OF AUTHORS WHO HAVE RUINED THEIR BOOKSELLERS. 532
- CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE.
- CHARLES THE FIRST.
- DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM.
- THE DEATH OF CHARLES IX.
- ROYAL PROMOTIONS.
- NOBILITY.
- FIRE, AND THE ORIGIN OF FIREWORKS.
- IMITATED.
- THE BIBLE PROHIBITED AND IMPROVED.
- ORIGIN OF THE MATERIALS OF WRITING.
- ANECDOTES OF EUROPEAN MANNERS.
- THE EARLY DRAMA.
- THE MARRIAGE OF THE ARTS.
- A CONTRIVANCE IN DRAMATIC DIALOGUE.
- THE COMEDY OF A MADMAN.
- IMITATED.
- SOLITUDE.
- LITERARY FRIENDSHIPS.
- IMITATED.
- ANECDOTES OF ABSTRACTION OF MIND.
- SONNET--IMITATED.
- RICHARDSON.
- INFLUENCE OF A NAME.
- THE JEWS OF YORK.
- THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE SEAS.
- ON THE CUSTOM OF KISSING HANDS.
- POPES.
- LITERARY COMPOSITION.
- POETICAL IMITATIONS AND SIMILARITIES.
- Gray, in his "Ode to Spring," has
- Gray, in his "Ode to Adversity," has
- Fond of this image, he has it again in his "Bard,"
- Perhaps the germ of this beautiful image may be found in Shakspeare:--
- And two similar passages in _Timon of Athens_:--
- Gray, in his "Progress of Poetry," has
- Gray has in his "Bard,"
- Gray tells us that the image of his "Bard,"
- Very similar to Gray's
- Gray in his Elegy has
- FOR WHO TO DUMB FORGETFULNESS a prey--
- And Shenstone has--
- Then he adds, they
- I consider the following lines as strictly copied by Thomas Warton:
- Goldsmith applies the thought very happily--
- Chamont employs the same image when speaking of Monimia; he says--
- But Metastasio has copied Lucretius:--
- And Tasso, in describing his hero Godfrey, says, Heaven
- Both Gray and Tasso copied Virgil, where Venus gives to her son Æneas--
- CELESTIAL ROSY-RED.
- Gray has
- Thomson paints the _stag_ in a similar situation:--
- Shakspeare exhibits the same object:--
- EXPLANATION OF THE FAC-SIMILE.
- LITERARY FASHIONS.
- THE PANTOMIMICAL CHARACTERS.
- EXTEMPORAL COMEDIES.
- MASSINGER, MILTON, AND THE ITALIAN THEATRE.
- SONGS OF TRADES, OR SONGS FOR THE PEOPLE.
- INTRODUCERS OF EXOTIC FLOWERS, FRUITS, ETC.
- USURERS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
- CHIDIOCK TITCHBOURNE.
- ELIZABETH AND HER PARLIAMENT.
- ANECDOTES OF PRINCE HENRY, THE SON OF JAMES I., WHEN A CHILD.
- THE DIARY OF A MASTER OF THE CEREMONIES.
- DIARIES--MORAL, HISTORICAL, AND CRITICAL.
- LICENSERS OF THE PRESS.
- OF ANAGRAMS AND ECHO VERSES.
- C'EST L'ENFER QUI M'A CRÉE.
- THE ECHO.
- ORTHOGRAPHY OF PROPER NAMES.
- NAMES OF OUR STREETS.
- SECRET HISTORY OF EDWARD VERE, EARL OF OXFORD.
- ANCIENT COOKERY, AND COOKS.
- Septem convivium, Novem convicium facere.[123]
- FRIEND.
- MASTER COOK.
- FRIEND.
- MASTER COOK.
- FRIEND.
- COOK.
- ANCIENT AND MODERN SATURNALIA.
- RELIQUIÆ GETHINIANÆ.
- A POEM IN PRAISE OF THE AUTHOR.
- ROBINSON CRUSOE.
- CATHOLIC AND PROTESTANT DRAMAS.
- THE HISTORY OF THE THEATRE DURING ITS SUPPRESSION.
- DRINKING-CUSTOMS IN ENGLAND.
- I am thine _ad unguem_--
- Massinger has given a curious list of "_a service of shoeing-horns_."
- LITERARY ANECDOTES.
- CONDEMNED POETS.
- ACAJOU AND ZIRPHILE.
- TOM O' BEDLAMS.
- A TOM-A-BEDLAM SONG.
- CHORUS.
- INTRODUCTION OF TEA, COFFEE, AND CHOCOLATE.
- CHARLES THE FIRST'S LOVE OF THE FINE ARTS.
- Ten pieces of Julius Cæsar, 717 ells at £7, £5019.[197]
- Such as thou know'st do not know what they do.[199]
- SECRET HISTORY OF CHARLES THE FIRST, AND HIS QUEEN HENRIETTA.
- And in another poem there is one characteristic line:--
- THE MINISTER--THE CARDINAL DUKE OF RICHELIEU.
- VERSES ON THE EXPEDITION TO CADIZ.
- THE DUKE'S EPITAPH.
- FELTON, THE POLITICAL ASSASSIN.
- TO HIS CONFINED FRIEND, MR. JO. FELTON.
- JOHNSON'S HINTS FOR THE LIFE OF POPE.
- POPE.
- LETTERS.
- ESSAY ON MAN.
- DUNCIAD.
- MODERN LITERATURE--BAYLE'S CRITICAL DICTIONARY
- CHARACTERISTICS OF BAYLE.
- BAYLE'S DIARY.
- CICERO VIEWED AS A COLLECTOR.
- THE HISTORY OF THE CARACCI.
- AN ENGLISH ACADEMY OF LITERATURE.[274]
- QUOTATION.
- THE ORIGIN OF DANTE'S INFERNO.
- OF A HISTORY OF EVENTS WHICH HAVE NOT HAPPENED.
- OF FALSE POLITICAL REPORTS.
- OF SUPPRESSORS AND DILAPIDATORS OF MANUSCRIPTS.
- PARODIES.
- ANECDOTES OF THE FAIRFAX FAMILY.
- MEDICINE AND MORALS.
- PSALM-SINGING.
- He insinuates that in his version he had received assistance
- ON THE RIDICULOUS TITLES ASSUMED BY ITALIAN ACADEMIES.
- ON THE HERO OF HUDIBRAS; BUTLER VINDICATED.
- SHENSTONE'S SCHOOL-MISTRESS.
- Improved thus:--
- More elegantly descriptive is the dress as now delineated:--
- BEN JONSON ON TRANSLATION.
- THE LOVES OF "THE LADY ARABELLA."[322]
- DOMESTIC HISTORY OF SIR EDWARD COKE.
- TO LADY HATTON.
- OF COKE'S STYLE, AND HIS CONDUCT.
- SECRET HISTORY OF AUTHORS WHO HAVE RUINED THEIR BOOKSELLERS.
- END OF VOL. II.
- BILLING AND SONS, PRINTERS, GUILDFORD.
- FOOTNOTES:
- Another declares of his assassin:--