AND MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS AND POEMS. BY T. BABINGTON MACAULAY. New and Rebised Edition, ORICAL SOCIETY VOL. VII. NEW YORK: D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, 549 551 BROADWAY. 1879. LORD MACAULAY always looked forward to a pub- The collection which is now published compre- " of his taking an active part in the contests of public life. These few dates are mentioned for the purpose of enabling the reader to assign the articles, now and previously published, to the principal periods into which the author's life may be divided. The articles published in Knight's Quarterly Magazine were composed during the author's residence at college, as B. A. It may be remarked that the first two of these exhibit the earnestness with which he already endeavoured to represent to himself and to others the scenes and persons of past times as in actual existence. Of the Dialogue between Milton and Cowley he spoke, many years after its publication, as that one of his works which he remembered with most satisfaction. Some of the poems now collected have already appeared in print; others are supplied by the recollection of friends. The first two are published on account of their having been composed in the author's childhood. CONTENTS. PAGE FRAGMENTS OF A ROMAN TALE. (Knight's Quarterly Magazine, ON THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE. (Knight's Quarterly Magazine, June 1823), SCENES FROM "ATHENIAN REVELS." (Knight's Quarterly Mag- CRITICISMS ON THE PRINCIPAL ITALIAN WRITERS.-No. I. DANTE. (Knight's Quarterly Magazine, January 1824), . CRITICISMS ON THE PRINCIPAL ITALIAN WRITERS.-No. II. PE- TRARCH. (Knight's Quarterly Magazine, April 1824), SOME ACCOUNT OF THE GREAT LAWSUIT BETWEEN THE PARISHES A CONVERSATION BETWEEN MR. ABRAHAM COWLEY AND Mr. 30 51 71 87 96 A PROPHETIC Account of a GRAND NATIONAL EPIC POEM, TO BE ENTITLED "THE WELLINGTONIAD," AND TO BE PUBLISHED A. D. 2824. (Knight's Quarterly Magazine, November 1824), 118 SADLER'S LAW OF POPULATION. (Edinburgh Review, July 1830), 129 SADLER'S REFUTATION REFUTED. (Edinburgh Review January WILLIAM PITT. (Encyclopædia Britannica, January 1859), |