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Unlike so many men of decided talent, the best and most loving side of Macaulay's nature was made manifest at home. His bubbling wit, brilliant conversation, and good-cheer were for his own fireside, first; and all that cutting, critical, scathing flood of invective was for the public that wore a rhinoceros-hide.
Macaulay's epigram is familiar, that the Puritan "hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators."
While father and daughter were absent Frank had taken from the table a volume of "Macaulay's History," and had become interested in it. He laid it down upon their return. Mr. Percival resumed his easy-chair, and said, with a smile. "My daughter and I have been consulting about you." Frank bowed, and his hopes rose. "I suppose you are open to an offer of employment?" "I am not only open to it, Mr.
I chose a volume of "Macaulay's Essays" and, with a sigh, the only articulate sign of an unutterable content, I stretched myself in the hammock, blew clouds of smoke in the air and resigned myself to the soothing influences. I had lain thus for perhaps an hour, when a shadow intervened between the page I was reading and the glare of the sun. It was Miss Grant.
Macaulay's reads better than it was spoken, quite marred in the delivery, and he does not look the orator; but no matter, in spite of his outside, his inside will get him on: he has far more power in him than Mr. North.
Macaulay's Characters of the Clergy in the Latter Part of the Seventeenth Century Considered, published shortly after the appearance of the History. What Mr.
'The man whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Iona, rivals Macaulay's New Zealander as a stock quotation, and the whole book is not without incisive touches. But it is completely eclipsed by the Journal of Boswell.
Subsequently, Mrs. Montagu fitted up a room whose walls were hung with feathers, and thence came Cowper's well-known lines and Macaulay's passage: "There were the members of that brilliant society which quoted, criticised and exchanged repartees under the rich peacock hangings of Mrs. Montagu."
Foxholes, August 24th. Your correspondent is the coolest fellow I ever heard of. He not only proposes to complete Macaulay's 'Lays' by some new ones, but to re-edit and correct the original Lays, which, he says, 'are very irregular. His own verses have not a spark of poetry or fire in them; they are mere trash, and he is an impertinent fellow. Here the Journal has: September 7th.
Our readers would take no great interest in a discussion whether Hengist was as fabulous as Hercules, Alaric a Christian born, and "the fair chapels of New College and St. George" at Windsor of the same date. We decline to draw any inferences from this work as to Mr. Macaulay's own religious opinions; but it is our duty to say and we trust we may do so without offence that Mr.
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