Essay on Addison Author:Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NOTES, ILLUSTRATIVE AND EXPLAN ATORY. 13. 9. These lines occur in the Pvgmceo-machia (p. xxxi), and may be freely rendered as follows: " And now, amid the fil... more »es, presses forward the tall chief of the Pygmies, with dreadful majesty and stately stride, his giant frame towering above all the rest — rising even a nail's breadth above them." 15. 14. In the first scene of Jonson's The Poetaster, Act V., Virgil is depicted as reading to his patron, Maecenas, and his friends from the Fourth Book of the Uneid, the passage (11. 173-188) containing an allegorical description of the Goddess Rumor, or Fame, daughter of Terra. The Giants, brute sons of Earth, had attempted to scale Heaven, and had been chastised by Jove. Then their " parent, Earth, in spite" against all the gods, brought forth Rumor, swift of flight, keen of vision, and clamorous of tongue. 18. 28. The government of France, under Louis XVIII. and Charles X., was but little removed from absolutism, although it was Parliamentary in type. In 1830 Charles X. attempted (a) to nullify an election recently held for choosing representatives to the national legislature ; (b) to alter the basis of suffrage laid down in the Constitution; and (f) to establish a vigorous Censorship of the Press. A revolution ensued, and the king was driven from the throne. In the Constitutional Monarchy which followed, the champions of free speech were recognized, and in 1843 (when this essay was written), among the notable persons active in French political life were Guizot, an author, and formerly a Professor of History; Thiers, a historian, and editor of Le National; Villemain, formerly Professor of Rhetoric; Lamartine, a poet; and Etienne Arago, a popular author. 25. 10. This passage may be freely rendered as follows: " Muse, why dost thou b...« less