Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1

Episodes

• On the Life and Writings of Mr. Disraeli, part 1

  Episode 1 · 22:29
• On the Life and Writings of Mr. Disraeli, part 2

  Episode 2 · 24:17
• On the Life and Writings of Mr. Disraeli, part 3

  Episode 3 · 29:22
• Preface

  Episode 4 · 8:55
• Libraries

  Episode 5 · 25:27
• The Bibliomania

  Episode 6 · 10:05
• Literary Journals

  Episode 7 · 16:30
• Recovery of Manuscripts

  Episode 8 · 22:39
• Sketches of Criticism

  Episode 9 · 10:24
• The Persecuted Learned

  Episode 10 · 6:50
• Poverty of the Learned

  Episode 11 · 15:19
• Imprisonment of the Learned

  Episode 12 · 7:32
• Amusements of the Learned

  Episode 13 · 9:40
• Portraits of Authors

  Episode 14 · 11:33
• Destruction of Books

  Episode 15 · 35:02
• Some Notices of Lost Works

  Episode 16 · 6:40
• Quodlibets, or Scholastic Disquisitions

  Episode 17 · 15:42
• Fame Contemned

  Episode 18 · 1:37
• The Six Follies of Science

  Episode 19 · 3:47
• Imitators

  Episode 20 · 6:57
• Cicero's Puns

  Episode 21 · 5:23
• Prefaces

  Episode 22 · 5:53
• Early Printing

  Episode 23 · 17:18
• Errata

  Episode 24 · 11:52
• Patrons

  Episode 25 · 6:31
• Poets, Philosophers, and Artists, Made by Accident

  Episode 26 · 8:56
• Inequalities of Genius

  Episode 27 · 2:36
• Geographical Style

  Episode 28 · 3:27
• Legends

  Episode 29 · 11:24
• The Port-Royal Society

  Episode 30 · 10:14
• The Progress of Old Age in New Studies

  Episode 31 · 7:12
• Spanish Poetry

  Episode 32 · 5:54
• Saint Evremont

  Episode 33 · 3:18
• Men of Genius Deficient in Conversation

  Episode 34 · 5:03
• Vida

  Episode 35 · 1:58
• The Scuderies

  Episode 36 · 10:35
• De La Rochefoucault

  Episode 37 · 2:33
• Prior's Hans Carvel

  Episode 38 · 3:03
• The Student in the Metropolis

  Episode 39 · 3:59
• The Talmud

  Episode 40 · 20:01
• Rabbinical Stories

  Episode 41 · 17:17
• On the Custom of Saluting after Sneezing

  Episode 42 · 5:41
• Bonaventure de Periers

  Episode 43 · 3:27
• Grotius

  Episode 44 · 4:05
• Noblemen Turned Critics

  Episode 45 · 3:12
• Literary Impostures

  Episode 46 · 24:34
• Cardinal Richelieu

  Episode 47 · 8:13
• Aristotle and Plato

  Episode 48 · 8:20
• Abelard and Eloisa

  Episode 49 · 9:55
• Physiognomy

  Episode 50 · 8:12
• Characters Described by Musical Notes

  Episode 51 · 3:48
• Milton

  Episode 52 · 7:52
• Origin of Newspapers

  Episode 53 · 16:21
• Trials and Proofs of Guilt in Superstitious Ages

  Episode 54 · 16:25
• The Inquisition

  Episode 55 · 13:08
• Singularities Observed by Various Nations in Their Repasts

  Episode 56 · 7:25
• Monarchs

  Episode 57 · 6:08
• Of the Titles of Illustrious, Highness, and Excellence

  Episode 58 · 6:18
• Titles of Sovereigns

  Episode 59 · 3:48
• Royal Divinities

  Episode 60 · 4:10
• Dethroned Monarchs

  Episode 61 · 8:07
• Feudal Customs

  Episode 62 · 9:10
• Gaming

  Episode 63 · 10:34
• The Arabic Chronicle

  Episode 64 · 3:39
• Metempsychosis

  Episode 65 · 6:37
• Spanish Etiquette

  Episode 66 · 4:49
• The Goths and the Huns

  Episode 67 · 1:44
• Vicars of Bray

  Episode 68 · 2:04
• Douglas

  Episode 69 · 2:50
• Critical History of Poverty

  Episode 70 · 12:01
• Solomon and Sheba

  Episode 71 · 2:54
• Hell

  Episode 72 · 8:39
• The Absent Man and Wax-Work

  Episode 73 · 7:01
• Pasquin and Marforio

  Episode 74 · 8:49
• Female Beauty and Ornaments

  Episode 75 · 5:31
• Modern Platonism

  Episode 76 · 10:24
• Anecdotes of Fashion

  Episode 77 · 44:16
• A Senate of Jesuits

  Episode 78 · 5:23
• The Lover's Heart

  Episode 79 · 5:47
• The History of Gloves

  Episode 80 · 11:46
• Relics of Saints

  Episode 81 · 12:20
• Perpetual Lamps of the Ancients

  Episode 82 · 3:23
• Natural Productions Resembling Artificial Compositions

  Episode 83 · 7:10
• The Poetical Garland of Julia

  Episode 84 · 5:22
• Tragic Actors

  Episode 85 · 9:12
• Jocular Preachers

  Episode 86 · 9:10
• Masterly Imitators

  Episode 87 · 10:38
• Edward the Fourth

  Episode 88 · 5:19
• Elizabeth

  Episode 89 · 10:30
• The Chinese Language

  Episode 90 · 5:37
• Medical Music

  Episode 91 · 18:45
• Minute Writing

  Episode 92 · 5:07
• Numerical Figures

  Episode 93 · 6:07
• English Astrologers

  Episode 94 · 14:36
• Alchymy

  Episode 95 · 14:48
• Titles of Books

  Episode 96 · 15:13
• Literary Follies

  Episode 97 · 43:53
• Literary Controversy

  Episode 98 · 36:14
• Literary Blunders

  Episode 99 · 21:23
• A Literary Wife

  Episode 100 · 26:57
• Dedications

  Episode 101 · 11:53
• Philosophical Descriptive Poems

  Episode 102 · 6:09
• Pamphlets

  Episode 103 · 13:27
• Little Books

  Episode 104 · 5:51
• A Catholic's Refutation

  Episode 105 · 2:30
• The Good Advice of an Old Literary Sinner

  Episode 106 · 4:57
• Mysteries, Moralities, Farces, and Sotties

  Episode 107 · 24:52
• Love and Folly, an Ancient Morality

  Episode 108 · 5:07
• Religious Nouvellettes

  Episode 109 · 16:09
• 'Critical Sagacity' and 'Happy Conjecture', Or, Bentley's Milton

  Episode 110 · 8:07
• A Jansenist Dictionary

  Episode 111 · 7:00
• Manuscripts and Books

  Episode 112 · 5:46
• The Turkish Spy

  Episode 113 · 6:35
• Spenser, Jonson, and Shakespeare

  Episode 114 · 5:05
• Ben Jonson, Feltham, and Randolph

  Episode 115 · 12:15
• Ariosto and Tasso

  Episode 116 · 15:26
• Bayle

  Episode 117 · 6:53
• Cervantes

  Episode 118 · 2:26
• Magliabechi

  Episode 119 · 7:16
• Abridgers

  Episode 120 · 7:31
• Professors of Plagiarism and Obscurity

  Episode 121 · 8:11
• Literary Dutch

  Episode 122 · 7:29
• The Productions of the Mind not Seizable by Creditors

  Episode 123 · 3:02
• Critics

  Episode 124 · 5:28
• Anecdotes of Censured Authors

  Episode 125 · 9:40
• Virginity

  Episode 126 · 3:44
• A Glance into the French Academy

  Episode 127 · 11:16
• Poetical and Grammatical Deaths

  Episode 128 · 11:01
• Scarron

  Episode 129 · 14:58
• Peter Corneille

  Episode 130 · 12:15
• Poets

  Episode 131 · 29:45
• Romances

  Episode 132 · 27:03
• The Astrea

  Episode 133 · 8:16
• Poets Laureat

  Episode 134 · 7:17
• Angelo Politian

  Episode 135 · 8:39
• Original Letter of Queen Elizabeth

  Episode 136 · 4:07
• Anne Bullen

  Episode 137 · 3:12
• James the First

  Episode 138 · 13:37
• General Monk and his Wife

  Episode 139 · 2:45
• Philip and Mary

  Episode 140 · 5:47