EN JONSON, FELTHAM, AND RANDOLPH 381
ARIOSTO AND TASSO 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
PHILIP AND MARY 469
CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE.
LIBRARIES.
The passion for forming vast collections of books has necessarily
existed in all periods of human curiosity; but long it required regal
munificence to found a national library. It is only since the art of
multiplying the productions of the mind has been discovered, that men of
letters themselves have been enabled to rival this imperial and
patriotic honour. The taste for books, so rare before the fifteenth
century, has gradually become general only within these
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