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Ante, iii. 395, and Piozzi Letters, ii. 44-55. Epsom, September; a few days. Pr. and Med. pp. 181, 225. Brighton. October. MS. letter dated Oct. 26, 1780 to Mr. Nichols in the British Museum. Oxford, Birmingham, Lichfield, Ashbourn, from Oct. 15 to Dec. 11. Post, iv. 135, and Croker's Boswell, p. 699, note 5. Oxford, June; about ten days. Post, iv. 151, and Piozzi Letters, ii. 243-249.
I hope the day will never arrive when I shall neither be the object of calumny or ridicule, for then I shall be neglected and forgotten. Croker's Boswell, p. 837. See ante, ii. 61, and pp. 174, 273.
His essays in 1830 on Southey and Montgomery, and one in 1831 on Croker's edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson, were fierce, scathing onslaughts, even cruel and crushing, revealing Macaulay's tremendous powers of invective and remorseless criticism, but reflecting little credit on his disposition or his judgment.
Croker censures the poet for applying the word puella to a lady in Laura's situation, and for talking of the beauty of Lucina. "Lucina," he says, "was never famed for her beauty." If Sir Robert Peel had seen this note, he probably would have again refuted Mr. Croker's criticisms by an Appeal to Horace.
He could not have shown himself in any ground in England but he would have been immediately surrounded with inquisitive gazers, trying to find out in what part of his frame his unrivalled skill lay, as politicians wonder to see the balance of Europe suspended in Lord Castlereagh's face, and admire the trophies of the British Navy lurking under Mr. Croker's hanging brow.
"And what's she? Are you to give up everything because she's love-sick for a day or two? Is everything to be knocked to pieces here at Croker's Hall, because he has come and made eyes at her? She was glad enough to take what you offered before he had come this way." "She was not glad enough. That is it. She was not glad enough."
His purpose might be as strong; but a man when he wishes to use burning words should use them while the words are on fire. John Gordon had a friend at Alresford, or rather an acquaintance, on whom he had determined to call, unless circumstances, as they should occur at Croker's Hall, should make him too ecstatic in his wish for any such operation.
Townmalling in Kent, September; apparently a short visit. Pr. and Med. p. 81. Oxford, from at least May 18 to July 7. Piozzi Letters, i. 19-23, and ante, ii. 67. Lichfield and Ashbourn, August; a short visit. Piozzi Letters, i. 24, and ante, ii. 67. Brighton, part of August and September; some weeks. Ante, ii. 68, 70, and Croker's Boswell, p. 198, letter dated 'Brighthelmstone. August 26, 1769.
If the new writer was not orthodox in the view of his political or theological critic, he was not to be tolerated as poet or historian, Dr. Johnson had said everything he could say against an author when he declared that he was a vile Whig. Macaulay, a Whig, always consulted his prejudices for his judgment, equally when he was reviewing Croker's Boswell or the impeachment of Warren Hastings.
Mary had now been a year and four months at Croker's Hall, and had, under pressure from Mr Whittlestaff, assumed something of the manner rather than of the airs of a mistress to Mrs Baggett. This the old woman did not at all resent, because the reality of power was still in her hands; but she could not endure that the idolatry of love should always be present in her master's face.
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