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CRITICAL, HISTORICAL,

AND

MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS.

BY

LORD MACAULAY.

WITH A MEMOIR AND INDEX.

IN SIX VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

NEW YORK:

PUBLISHED BY HURD AND HOUGHTON.

Riverside Press.

1866.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by

SHELDON AND COMPANY,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York.

RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE.

STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY

H. O. HOUGHTON

CONTENTS

OF

THE FIRST VOLUME.

PAGE

FRAGMENTS OF A ROMAN TALE. (Knight's Quarterly

Magazine, June 1823.)

ON THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE. (Knight's

Quarterly Magazine, June 1823.)

SCENES FROM "ATHENIAN REVELS." (Knight's Quar-

terly Magazine, January 1824.).

CRITICISMS ON THE PRINCIPAL ITALIAN WRITERS.

No. I. DANTE. (Knight's Quarterly Magazine, Jan-

uary 1824.)

CRITICISMS ON THE PRINCIPAL ITALIAN WRITERS.

No. II. PETRARCH. (Knight's Quarterly Magazine,

April 1824.)

SOME ACCOUNT OF THE GREAT LAWSUIT BETWEEN

THE PARISHES OF ST. DENNIS AND ST. GEORGE

IN THE WATER. (Knight's Quarterly Magazine,

April 1824.)

A CONVERSATION BETWEEN MR. ABRAHAM COWLEY

AND MR. JOHN MILTON TOUCHING THE GREAT

CIVIL WAR. (Knight's Quarterly Magazine, August

1824.)

ON THE ATHENIAN ORATORS. (Knight's Quarterly Mag-

azine, August 1824.)

100

112

139

PAGE

A PROPHETIC ACCOUNT OF A GRAND NATIONAL EPIC

POEM, TO BE ENTITLED "THE WELLINGTONIAD,"

AND TO BE PUBLISHED A. D. 2824. (Knight's Quar-

terly Magazine, November 1824.)

ON MITFORD'S HISTORY OF GREECE. (Knight's Quar-

terly Magazine, November 1824.)

MILTON. (Edinburgh Review, August 1825.)

MACHIAVELLI. (Edinburgh Review, March 1827.)

158

172

202

267

JOHN DRYDEN. (Edinburgh Review, January 1828.)

321

HISTORY. (Edinburgh Review, May 1828.)

376

HALLAM'S CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY. (Edinburgh Re-

view, September 1828.)

433