Macaulay's Essays on Addison and Johnson Author:Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1903 Original Publisher: Scott, Foresman Subjects: Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When ... more »you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHRONOLOGY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY 1800. Macaulay born, Oct. 25, at Rothley Temple, Leicestershire. 1818. Entered Trinity College, Cambridge. (B. A., 1822; M. A., 1825.) 1823. Began contributing to Knight's Quarterly Maga zine. 1824. Elected Fellow of Trinity. 1825. Began contributing to Edinburgh Review. 1826. Called to the Bar. 1830. Entered Parliament. 1831. Speeches on Reform Bill. 1834. Went to India as member of the Supreme Council. 1837. Indian Penal Code. 1838. Returned to England. Tour in Italy. 1839. Elected to Parliament for Edinburgh. Secretary at War. 1842. Lays of Ancient Rome. 1843. Collected edition of Essays. 1848. History of England, vols. i. and ii. (Vols. iii. and iv. 1855; vol. v. 1861.) 1852. Failure in health. 1857. Made Baron Macaulay of Rothley. 1859. Died Dec. 28. (Interred in Westminster Abbey.) The standard edition of Macaulay's works is that edited by his sister, Lady Trevelyan, in eight volumes, and published at London, 1866; reprinted at New York, by Harper Bros. The authorized biography is that by his nephew, G. O. Trevelyan, a book which is exceedir ''ly interesting and which takes high rank among English 43 biographies. J. Cotter Morison's life in the English Men of Letters series is briefer, is both biographical and critical, and is in every way an admirable work. There are also the articles in the Encydopcedia Britannica, by Mark Pattison, and in the Dictionary of National Biography, by Mr. Leslie Stephen. The best c...« less