Johnson And Goldsmith Essays By Thomas Babington Macaulay

Author : Thomas Babington Macaulay
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484134514
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Johnson and Goldsmith written by Thomas Babington Macaulay and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Johnson and Goldsmith: Essays Thomas babington macaulay, born October 25, 1800, was of good stock, - Scotch Presbyterian and Quaker blood united. By his excellent mother he 'was wisely brought through a precocious but happy childhood, during which, though he did not altogether neglect play, he loved best to read incessantly and to talk about what he had read. This manner Of life he continued at a private school near Cambridge, Where his studies, though limited in number, were of a sort to give him a genuine love for Sound literature. He wrote to his mother: We do Latin verses twice a week We are exercised also once a week in English composition, and once in Latin com position, and letters of persons renowned in history We get by heart Greek grammar or Virgil every evening. English literature, meanwhile, seems to have delighted Macaulay not as one of his tasks, but as a recreation. At fifteen he prefers Boccaccio to Chaucer, and recommends his mother to look up Dryden's Fables. For Gil Blas he has unbounded admiration, and he has read a good deal of Gibbon. Yet he was a natural boy, too, and in one of his delightful letters from school promised to bring home a pair of rabbits for his Sisters if his purse is sufficient. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.