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Search - Critical And Miscellaneous Essays - Vol V

Critical And Miscellaneous Essays Vol V
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay

CONTENTS OF VOL. V. MADAME DARBLAY . . 13 Edinburgh Review. LIFE AND WRITINGS OP ADDISON . .68 Edinburgh Review. BARERES MEMOIRS . . . 146 Edinburgh Review. MR. ROBERT MONTGOMERYS POEMS . . . 234 Edinburgh Review. CIVIL DISABILITIES OF THE JEWS . . . 255 MILLS ESSAY ON GOVERNMENT .... 268 Edinburgh Review. BENTHAMS DEFENCE OF MILL . . . 304 Edin... more »burgh Review. UTILITARIAN THEORY OF GOVERNMENT . . 336 Edinburgh Review. THE EARL OF CHATHAM . . . , Edinburgh Review. . 367 SPEECH ON HIS INSTALLATION AS LORD RECTOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW . . . 449 SPEECH ON RETIRING FROM POLITICAL LIFE . 457 3 MACAULAYS MISCELLANIES. MADAME DARBLAY. Edinburgh Beview. THOUGH the world saw and heard little of Madame DArblay during the last forty years of her life, and though that little did not add to her fame, therewere thousands,we believe, who felt a singular emotion when they learned that she was no longer among us. The news of her death carried the minds of men back at one leap, clear over two generations, to the time when her first literary triumphs were won. All thosewhom we had been accustomed to revere as intel- lectual patriarchs, seemed childrenwhen compared with her for Burke had sat up all night to read her writings, and Johnson had pronounced her superior to Fielding when Rogers was still a school-boy, and Southey still in petticoats. Yet more strange did it seem that we should just have lost one whose name had been widely celebrated before anybody had heard of some illustrious men who, twenty, thirty, or forty years ago, were, after a long and splendid career, borne with honour to the grave. Yet so it was. Frances Burney was at the height of fame and popularity before Cowper had published his first volume, before Porson had gone up to college, before Pitt had taken his seat in the House of Commons, before the voice of Erskine had been once heard in Westminster Hall. Since the appearance of her first work, sixty-two years had passed and this interval had been crowded, not only with political, but also with intellectual revolutions. Thousands of reputations had, during that . period, sprungup, bloomed, withered, and disappeared. New kinds of composition had come into fashion, had gone out of fashion, had been derided, had been forgotten. The fooleries of Delia Crusca, and the fooleries of Kotzebue, had for a time bewitched the multitude, who had left no trace behind them nor had misdirected genius been a,ble to save from decay the once flourishing schools of Godwin, of Darwin, and of Radcliffe. Many books, written for temporary effect, had run through six or seven editions, andhadthenbeengathered to the novels of Afra Behn, and the epic poems of Sir Richard Blackmore. Yet the earlyworks of Madame DArblay, in spite of the lapse of years, in spite of the change of manners, in spite of the popularity deservedly obtained by some of her rivals, continued to hold a high place in the public esteem. She lived to be a classic. Time set on her fame, before she went hence, that seal which is seldom set except on the fame of the departed. Like Sir Condy Rackrent in the tale, she survived her ownwake, and overheard the judgment of posterity. Having always felt awarm and sincere,though not a blind admiration for her talents,we rejoiced to learn that her Diary was about to be made public. Our hopes, it is true, were not unmixed with fears. We could not forget the fate of the Memoirs of Dr. Burney, which were published ten years ago. That unfortunate book containedmuch that was curious and interesting. Yet it was received with a cry of dis- gust, and was speedily consigned to oblivion. The truth is, that it deserved its doom...

ISBN-13: 9781406783254
ISBN-10: 1406783250
Publication Date: 10/9/2007
Pages: 456
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