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Title: Critical Miscellanies, Volume I (of 3)
Essay 4: Macaulay

Author: John Morley

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CRITICAL MISCELLANIES

by

JOHN MORLEY

VOL. I.

ESSAY 4: MACAULAY

London
MacMillan and Co., Limited
New York: The MacMillan Company
1904

MACAULAY.

The Life of Macaulay 253

Macaulay's vast popularity 254

He and Mill, the two masters of the modern journalist 256

His marked quality 259

Set his stamp on style 260

His genius for narration 262

His copiousness of illustration 264

Macaulay's, the style of literary knowledge 266

His use of generous commonplace 267

Perfect accord with his audience 271

Dislike of analysis 272

Not meditative 273

Macaulay's is the prose of spoken deliverance 276

Character of his geniality 278

Metallic hardness and brightness 279

Compared with Carlyle 281

Harsh modulations and shallow cadences 283

Compared with Burke 283

Or with Southey 285

Faults of intellectual conscience 286

Vulgarity of thought