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1450-1945

Listing for Reader: Macaulay

 

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1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. During the last thirteen months I have...Thomas Babington Macaulay AeschylusPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. During the last thirteen months I hav...Thomas Babington Macaulay SophoclesunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. During the last thirteen months I hav...Thomas Babington Macaulay EuripidesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay PindarunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay CallimachusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay Apollonius RhodiusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay Quintus CalaberunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay TheocritusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay HerodotusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay ThucydidesunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay XenophonunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatounknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay AristotlePoliticsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay AristotleOrganonPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlutarchLivesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay LucianunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay AthenaeusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlautusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlautusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay AeschylusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay SophoclesunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay PindarunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay TheocritusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay TerenceunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay LucretiusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay CatullusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay Albius TibullusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay Sextus PropertiusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay LucanunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay Silius ItalicusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay LivyunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay Velleius PaterculusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay SallustunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay CaesarunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay CicerounknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay AristophanesunknownPrint: Book
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'Macaulay began with the frontispiece, if the book possessed one. "Said to be very like, and certainly full of the ch...Thomas Babington Macaulay MonkBiography of Richard BentleyPrint: Book
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' "This is a very good Idyll. Indeed it is more pleasing to me than almost any other pastoral poem in any language. ...Thomas Babington Macaulay TheocritusSeventh IdyllPrint: Book
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'Of Ben Jonson's Alchemist he writes: "It is very happily managed indeed to make Subtle use so many terms of alchemy, ...Thomas Babington Macaulay Ben JonsonThe AlchemistPrint: Book
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'I am a reader in ordinary, and I cannot defend the introduction of the First Catilinarian oration, at full length, in...Thomas Babington Macaulay Ben JonsonCatilinePrint: Book
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'Of Pope's Rape of the Lock, Macaulay says: "Admirable indeed! The fight towards the beginning of the last book is ver...Thomas Babington Macaulay Alexander PopeThe Rape of the LockPrint: Book
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'He thus remarks on the Imitations of Horace's Satires: "Horace had perhaps less wit than Pope, but far more humour, f...Thomas Babington Macaulay HoraceSatiresPrint: Book
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[Marginalia] 'A most powerful piece of rhetoric as ever I read.'Thomas Babington Macaulay Paul Louis CourierLe Simple Discours
1800-1849'He used to read Courier aloud to his sister at Calcutta of a June afternoon, - in the darkened upstairs chamber, wit...Thomas Babington Macaulay Paul Louis CourierLe Simple Discours
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[Marginalia by Macaulay on Swift's "Essay on the Fates of Clergymen"]: 'People speak of the world as they find it. I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay Jonathan SwiftEssay on the Fates of ClergymenPrint: Book
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Description of Marginalia by Macaulay on Edward Gibbon's 'Vindication' - the marginalia responds to the passage 'Fame ...Thomas Babington Macaulay Edward GibbonVindicationPrint: Book
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[Marginalia by Macaulay on Conyers Middleton's 'Free Enquiry into the Miraculous Powers of the Christian Church']: 'I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay Conyers MiddletonFree Enquiry into the Miraculous Powers of the Christian ChurchPrint: Book
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[Marginalia by Macaulay on the first page of his copy of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'An admirable opening scen...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
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[Marginalia by Macaulay by the passage about the biting of the thumbs in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'This is n...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
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[Marginalia by Macaulay by the scene in the street beginning with Mercutio's lines: 'Where the devil should this Romeo...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
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[Marginalia by Macaulay by the commencement of the third act in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'Mercutio, here, is...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
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[Marginalia by Macaulay by the the lines 'Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, / Shall bitterly begin his fearf...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
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[Marginalia by Macaulay at the close of the Third Act of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'Very fine is the way in w...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
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[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's marginalia]: 'When [...] the poor child commits her life to the hands of Friar Law...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia, by the lines 'Now, afore God, this reverend holy friar/ All our whole city is much bound to him...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia by the speech about Queen Mab in Romeo and Juliet: "This speech, - full of matter, of thought, o...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia by the lines 'Hath Romeo slain himself' to 'Of those eyes shut, that make thee answer "I"' : "If...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
1800-1849Macaulay's marginalia by the point where Balthazar brings the evil tidings to Mantua in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in the scene in the vault of death in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: "The desperate calmness of...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the opening dialogue: "beyond praise".Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the lines 'that season comes/ Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrate...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, "The long story about Fortinbras, and all that follows from it, seems to ...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, in the scene of the royal audience in the room of state: "The silence of ...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the scene with the strolling player's declamation about Pyrrhus: "the ...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, at the opening of Act 1, Scene 4: "Nothing can be finer than this specime...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the lines 'Dost thou hear?/ Since my dear soul was mistress of her cho...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the conversation between Hamlet and the courtier, in Act 5: "This is a...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia. By an editorial note by Dr Johnson, to the lines, 'Who would fardels bear, / To groan and swea...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia. By the editorial notes in his copy of Hamlet: "It is a noble emendation. Had Warburton often ...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia by the editorial notes in his copy of Hamlet in the scene where Hamlet declines to kill his uncl...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, in Act 1, Scene 3: "Here begins the finest of all human performances."Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, in Act 2, Scene 2, opposite Cornwall's description of the fellow who h...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by the lines 'Now i pr'ythee, daughter, do not make me mad!/ I will no...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by the apostrophe commencing, 'O, let not women's weapons, water-drops...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by opening of the play: "Idolising Shakspeare [sic] as I do, I cannot ...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by the quarrel between Kent and Cornwall's steward: "It is rather a fa...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, in Act 3, Scene 4: "The softening of Lear's nature and manners, under ...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in response to a note by Dr Johnson at the end of King Lear. Johnson protested against the unpl...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Antony and Cleopatra. A response to an editorial note by Steevens. "Solemn nons...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareAntony and CleopatraPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Henry V, by the Prologue. Macaulay responds to an editorial note by Dr Johnson, ...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHenry VPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Warburton's editorial note to the lines 'Now the hu...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by the lines 'the rattling tongue / Of saucy and audac...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by the lines 'Be, as thou wast wont to be' to 'Hath su...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, on the last page: "A glorious play. The love-scenes F...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia by the conversation in the street between Brutus and Cassius, in the First Act of Julius Caesar...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia at the end of Julius Caesar] "The last scenes are huddled up, and affect me less than Plutarch'...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia by the lines "Let me have men about me that are fat/ Sleek headed men, and such as sleep o' nig...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Antony and Cleopatra, by an editorial note by Steevens, which reminds the reader...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareAntony and CleopatraPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the composition of the Senate] "Abs...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareCoriolanusPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the history of the Roman Consular G...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareCoriolanusPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the creation of the first Censor, w...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareCoriolanusPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, on the last page]: "A noble play. As usual, Shakspeare [sic] had th...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareCoriolanusPrint: Book
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[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro...Thomas Babington Macaulay HesiodPrint: Book
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[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro...Thomas Babington Macaulay AthenaeusPrint: Book
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[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro...Thomas Babington Macaulay CatoPrint: Book
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[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro...Thomas Babington Macaulay LivyPrint: Book
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[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro...Thomas Babington Macaulay SallustPrint: Book
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[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro...Thomas Babington Macaulay TacitusPrint: Book
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[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro...Thomas Babington Macaulay Aulus GelliusPrint: Book
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[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro...Thomas Babington Macaulay SuetoniusPrint: Book
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[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "Those two parallel lines in pencil, which were his highest form of comp...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroDe FinibusPrint: Book
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[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "Those two parallel lines in pencil, which were his highest form of comp...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroAcademic QuestionsPrint: Book
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[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "Those two parallel lines in pencil, which were his highest form of comp...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroTusculan DisputationsPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia at the end of the first book of Cicero's De Finibus]: "Exquisitely written, graceful, calm, lum...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroDe FinibusPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in Cicero's De Natura Deorum]: "Equal to anything that Cicero ever did."Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroDe Natura DeorumPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in the Second Book of Cicero's De Divinatione]: double-lines down the margin of the argument ag...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroDe DivinationePrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Ben Jonson's Catiline, by the lines 'Lentulus: The augurs all are constant I am ...Thomas Babington Macaulay Ben JonsonCatilinePrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations, by the translations from Aeschylus and Sophocles...Thomas Babington Macaulay Ben CiceroTusculan DisputationsPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Cicero's Letters, opposite the sentences 'Meum factum probari abs te [...] nihil...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroLettersPrint: Book
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[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's speeches]: "Macaulay's pencilled observations upon each suc...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroSpeechesPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's Epistles to Atticus]: "A kind-hearted man [Cicero], with all his faults." Later, "...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroLetters to AtticusPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's Second Philippic]: "a most wonderful display of rhetorical talent, worthy of all i...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroSecond PhilippicPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's Third Philippic]: "The close of this speech is very fine. His later and earlier s...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroThird PhilippicPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia at the end of Cicero's last Philippic]: "As a man, I think of Cicero much as I always did, exc...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroLast PhilippicPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "It seems incredible that these absurdities of Dionysodoru...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoEuthydemusPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Glorious irony!"Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoEuthydemusPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Incomparably ludicrous!"Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoEuthydemusPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "No writer, not even Cervantes, was so great a master of t...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoEuthydemusPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "There is hardly any comedy, in any language, more diverti...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoEuthydemusPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Dulcissima hercle, eademque nobilissima vita."Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoEuthydemusPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus, below the last line of the dialogue]: "Calcutta, May 1835."Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoEuthydemusPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic]: "Plato has been censured with great justice for his doctrine...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic]: "You may see that Plato was passionately fond of poetry, eve...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic, by the passage where Plato recommends a broader patriotism]: ...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic, in the Second Book, by the discussion of abstract justice]: "...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic, in the Eighth Book]: "I remember nothing in Greek philosophy ...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "A very lively picture of Athenian manners. There is scar...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoProtagorasPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "Callias seems to have been a munificent and courteous pat...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoProtagorasPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "Alcibiades is very well represented here. It is plain th...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoProtagorasPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "Protagoras seems to deserve the character he gives himsel...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoProtagorasPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia at the beginning of Plato's Gorgias]: "This was my favourite dialogue at College. I do not kn...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "Polus is much in the right. Socrates abused scandalously the advantages...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Maraulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "You have made a blunder, and Socrates will have you in an instant."Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "Hem! Retiarium astutum!" [Cunning netter].Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "There you are in the Sophist's net. I think that, if I had been in the ...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "What a command of his temper the old fellow [Callicles] had, and what te...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "This is not pure morality; but there is a good deal of weight in what Ca...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia at the end of the dialogue in Plato's Gorgias]: "This is one of the finest passages in Greek l...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia at the end of the dialogue in Plato's Gorgias. He marks the the doctrine "that we ought to be...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias, by the trial of Socrates, when Socrates expressed a serene conviction that...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias, at the end of the trial of Socrates]: "A most solemn and noble close! Noth...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia on the last page of the Crito]: There is much that may be questioned in the reasoning of Socra...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoCritoPrint: Book
1850-1899'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and m...Grace Macaulay Maria Edgeworth'The Purple Jar' in Every Child's StoriesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and m...Grace Macaulay Ann Fraser TytlerLeila: or, The IslandPrint: Book
1850-1899'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and m...Grace Macaulay Catherine SinclairHoliday HousePrint: Book
1850-1899'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and m...Grace Macaulay The Wave and the BattlefieldPrint: Book
1850-1899'Later in the month (30 November), Grace writes that she is "reading Henry V to M. and R. [Margaret and Rose] in the e...Grace Macaulay William ShakespeareHenry VPrint: Book
1850-1899'In September and October [Grace Macaulay] is reading aloud to Margaret (ill with scarlet fever) Mrs Molesworth's The ...Grace Macaulay Mary Louisa MolesworthThe Cuckoo ClockPrint: Book
1850-1899'In September and October [Grace Macaulay] is reading aloud to Margaret (ill with scarlet fever) Mrs Molesworth's The ...Grace Macaulay Charlotte M. YongeThe Chaplet of PearlsPrint: Book
1850-1899'In September and October [Grace Macaulay] is reading aloud to Margaret (ill with scarlet fever) Mrs Molesworth's The ...Grace Macaulay Charlotte M. YongeThe Heir of RedclyffePrint: Book
1850-1899'[Grace Macaulay's diary] entry for 2 March 1890 records that she "read the boys parts of Settlers at Home and Otto Sp...Grace Macaulay Frederick MarryatThe Settlers in CanadaPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Grace Macaulay's diary] entry for 2 March 1890 records that she "read the boys parts of Settlers at Home and Otto Sp...Grace Macaulay Wilhelm HeyFunfzig Fabeln or Noch Funfzig FabelnPrint: Book
1850-1899'On 12 May [1890 Grace Macaulay] recalls that she "read part of Mill on Floss to children in aft, to their delight".'Grace Macaulay George EliotThe Mill on the FlossPrint: Book
1850-1899'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T...George Macaulay Charles DickensPrint: Book
1850-1899'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T...George Macaulay Walter ScottPrint: Book
1850-1899'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T...George Macaulay Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1850-1899'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T...George Macaulay William ShakespearePrint: Book
1850-1899'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T...George Macaulay Jane AustenPrint: Book
1850-1899'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T...George Macaulay George MeredithPrint: Book
1850-1899'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T...George Macaulay Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T...George Macaulay Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1850-1899'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T...George Macaulay Alexandre Dumas (pere)The Three MusketeersPrint: Book
'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T...George Macaulay Charles DarwinThe Origin of SpeciesPrint: Book
1850-1899'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devou...Rose Macaulay Frederick MarryatMasterman ReadyPrint: Book
1850-1899'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devou...Rose Macaulay Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1850-1899'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devou...Rose Macaulay Walter ScottThe TalismanPrint: Book
1850-1899'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devou...Rose Macaulay Robert Michael BallantyneCoral IslandPrint: Book
1850-1899'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devou...Rose Macaulay Robert Louis StevensonTreasure IslandPrint: Book
1850-1899'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devou...Rose Macaulay Charles DickensA Tale of Two CitiesPrint: Book
1850-1899'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devou...Rose Macaulay Edgar Allan PoeThe Murders in the Rue MorguePrint: Book
1850-1899'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devou...Rose Macaulay Charlotte Mary YongeThe Prince and the PagePrint: Book
1850-1899'[Rose Macaulay] relished such island shipwreck stories as Swiss Family Robinson'Rose Macaulay Johann David WyssSwiss Family RobinsonPrint: Book
1850-1899'Daughter of the editor father, [Rose Macaulay] was given a copy of the complete works of Tennyson when she was eight ...Rose Macaulay Alfred Lord TennysonPrint: Book
1850-1899'Daughter of the editor father, [Rose Macaulay] was given a copy of the complete works of Tennyson when she was eight ...Rose Macaulay Percy Bysshe ShelleyPrometheus UnboundPrint: Book
1850-1899Rose Macaulay had a 'craze' 'for the ascetic Thomas a Kempis's meditations and rule of conduct, On The Imitation of Ch...Rose Macaulay Thomas a KempisOn The Imitation of ChristPrint: Book
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'She read Renan's Life of Jesus, which had proved so critical to George Eliot's subsitution of Duty for God. As a coro...Rose Macaulay John Stuart Millprobably 'On Liberty'Print: Book
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'She read Renan's Life of Jesus, which had proved so critical to George Eliot's subsitution of Duty for God. As a coro...Rose Macaulay Ernest RenanLife of JesusPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Rose Macaulay's] library comprised chiefly old tomes from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which ...Rose Macaulay Richard HakluytVoiages, and Discoveries of the English NationPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Rose Macaulay's] library comprised chiefly old tomes from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which ...Rose Macaulay Joseph Addison[probably The Spectator]Print: Book, Serial / periodical, numbers bound as volume?
1900-1945'[Rose Macaulay's] library comprised chiefly old tomes from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which ...Rose Macaulay n/aOxford English DictionaryPrint: Book
1800-1849'The books which I am at present employed in reading to myself are in English, Plutarch's Lives and Milner's Ecclesias...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlutarchLivesPrint: Book
1800-1849'The books which I am at present employed in reading to myself are in English, Plutarch's Lives and Milner's Ecclesias...Thomas Babington Macaulay MilnerEcclesiastical HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'In my learning I do Xenophon every day'.Thomas Babington Macaulay XenophonPrint: Book
1800-1849In my learning I do Xenophon every day and twice a week the Odyssey, in which I am classed with Wilberforce.Thomas Babington Macaulay HomerThe OdysseyPrint: Book
1800-1849'We get by heart Greek grammar or Virgil every evening'.Thomas Babington Macaulay VirgilPrint: Book
1800-1849The books which I am reading to myself are [...] in French, Fenelon's Dialogues of the Dead.'Thomas Babington Macaulay FenelonDialogues of the DeadPrint: Book
1800-1849'I shall send you back the volumes of Madame de Genlis's [underline] petits romans [end underline] as soon as possible...Thomas Babington Macaulay Stephanie-Felicite de GenlisPrint: Book
1800-1849[Every Sunday] 'After breakfast we learn a chapter in the Greek Testament, that is with the aid of our Bibles, and wit...Thomas Babington Macaulay BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'We dine almost as soon as we come back, and we are left to ourselves till afternoon church. During this time I employ...Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book
1800-1849'Hear what I have read since I came here. Hear and wonder! I have in the first place read Boccacio's Decameron, a tale...Thomas Babington Macaulay BoccacioDecameronPrint: Book
1800-1849'Everything here is going on in the common routine. The only things of peculiar interest are those which we get from t...Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Newspaper
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" ... Macaulay ... did not annotate his copies of Jane Austen except to record the dates of reading and to correct a v...Thomas Babington Macaulay Jane AustennovelsPrint: Book
1800-1849H. J. Jackson notes annotations by Macaulay made in 1836 in his copy of Joseph Milner, History of the Church of Christ...Thomas Babington Macaulay Joseph MilnerHistory of the Church of ChristPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am glad you have read Madame de Stael?s "Allemagne". The book is a foolish one in some respects; but it abounds wi...Hannah Macaulay Germaine de StaelDe l'AllemagnePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have likewise read "Gil Blas", with unbounded admiration of the abilities of Le Sage.'Thomas Babington Macaulay Le SageGil BlasPrint: Book
1800-1849?Malden and I have read Thalaba together, and are proceeding to the Curse of Kehama.?Thomas Babington Macaulay Robert SoutheyThalabaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read the greater part of the History of James I and Mrs. Montagues?s essay on Shakespeare, and a great deal of...Thomas Babington Macaulay Elizabeth Montague[essay on Shakespeare]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read the greater part of the History of James I and Mrs. Montagues?s essay on Shakespeare, and a great deal of...Thomas Babington Macaulay unknownHistory of James IPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read the greater part of the History of James I and Mrs. Montagues?s essay on Shakespeare, and a great deal of...Thomas Babington Macaulay Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1800-1849'John Smith, Bob Hankinson, and I, went over the "Hebrew Melodies" together'.Thomas Babington Macaulay George Gordon, Lord ByronHebrew MelodiesPrint: Book
1800-1849'In the year 1816 we were at Brighton for the summer holidays, and he read to us "Sir Charles Grandison". It was alwa...Thomas Babbington Macaulay Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
1800-1849'He [Macaulay] was so fired up with reading Scott?s "Lay" and "Marmion", the former of which he got entirely, and the ...Thomas Babington Macaulay Walter ScottLay of the Last MinstrelPrint: Book
1800-1849'He [Macaulay] was so fired up with reading Scott?s "Lay" and "Marmion", the former of which he got entirely, and the ...Thomas Babington Macaulay Walter ScottMarmionPrint: Book
1800-1849'This day I finished Thucydides, after reading him with inexpressible interest and admiration. He is the greatest his...Lord Macaulay ThucydidesunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Macaulay's copy of Xenophon's "Anabasis"]: 'Decidedly his best work. Dec 17 1835'Thomas Babington Macaulay XenophonAnabasisPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] 'Most certainly. February 24, 1837' Thomas Babington Macaulay XenophonAnabasisPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] 'One of the very first works that antiquity has left us. Perfect in its kind. October 9, 1837'.Thomas Babington Macaulay XenophonAnabasisPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read Plautus four times at Calcutta. The first in November and December 1834.'Lord Macaulay PlautusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read Plautus four times at Calcutta. The first in November and December 1834. The second in January and the begin...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlautusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read Plautus four times at Calcutta. The first in November and December 1834 The second in January and the beginn...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlautusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read Plautus four times at Calcutta. The first in November and December 1834 The second in January and the beginn...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlautusunknownPrint: Book
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H. J. Jackson notes annotations by T. B. Macaulay in T. J. Mathias, Pursuits of Literature, including "'Bah!'" "'A con...Thomas Babington Macaulay T. J. MathiasPursuits of LiteraturePrint: Book
1700-1799'Catharine MacAulay's daughter shared her mother's republican views, and read Shakespeare for her own purposes, confes...William Shakespeare[plays]Print: Book, Unknown
1800-1849'My journey lay over the field of Thrasymenus, and as soon as the sun rose, I read Livy's description of the scene [.....Thomas Babington Macaulay Livy (Titus Livius) History of Rome Book XIIIPrint: Book
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Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include criticisms of practices of editors of Renaiss...Thomas Babington Macaulay William GiffordMemoir of Ben JonsonPrint: Book
1850-1899The Duke of Argyll to Alfred Tennyson, 14 July 1859: 'I think my prediction is coming true, that your "Idylls of th...Thomas Babington Macaulay Alfred TennysonGuineverePrint: Book
1850-1899The Duke of Argyll to Alfred Tennyson, 14 July 1859: 'I think my prediction is coming true, that your "Idylls of th...Thomas Babington Macaulay Alfred TennysonThe Maid of AstolatPrint: Book

 

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