macaulayesque

Updated: August 25, 2026

Indeed in one respect as a writer Kingsley is perhaps better in his letters than in his Essays, where he too often affects a Macaulayesque positiveness on rather inadequate grounds. It is to be feared that Mr. Arnold did not go far wrong when he declared, "Among men of letters I know nothing so rare as this."

George Saintsbury - A Letter Book: Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing