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Macaulay's Essays on Oliver Goldsmith, Frederic the Great and Madame D'arblay
Macaulay's Essays on Oliver Goldsmith Frederic the Great and Madame D'arblay Author:Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1913 Original Publisher: Scott, Foresman Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Women Authors Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. ... more » When 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: NOTES The Introduction to this volume has been prepared with a specific view to affording a starting-point for an analytical study of Macaulay's style and matter. These notes are therefore confined almost exclusively to corrections of the text and the elucidation of obscure points. Explanations of names and unusual words not discussed here should be sought in the Glossary. OLIVER GOLDSMITH In the latter part of his life, after he had settled down In earnest to the composition of his History of England, Macaulay ceased to write essays, as he had long been accustomed to do, for the Edinburgh Review. He was, however, induced to turn aside from his major occupation long enough to contribute five articles to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, namely, the biographies of Atterbury, Bunyan, Goldsmith, Johnson, and Pitt. The sketch of Goldsmith belongs to the year 1856, and is therefore one of the latest productions of his pen. The article has been retained in the new (eleventh) edition of the Britannica, with slight corrections and retouches by Austin Dobson, which will be found duly noted below. Page 41: Line 15. At Pallas. Late investigations make it probable that his birth-place was Smith-Hill House, Elphin, Roscommon, the residence of his mother's father. 42 : 12. An old quartermaster. Namely, Thomas Byrne, who had been a soldier in Queen Anne's wars in Spain. Compare the "village master" who "taught his little school," in The Deserted Village, lines 193-218. 42...« less