Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1

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Томас Бабингтон Маколей. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1

PREFACE

MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS OF LORD MACAULAY. CONTRIBUTIONS TO KNIGHT'S QUARTERLY MAGAZINE. FRAGMENTS OF A ROMAN TALE. (June 1823.)

ON THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE. (June 1823.)

SCENES FROM "ATHENIAN REVELS." (January 1824.)

CRITICISMS ON THE PRINCIPAL ITALIAN WRITERS

No. I. DANTE. (January 1824.)

No. II. PETRARCH. (April 1824.)

SOME ACCOUNT OF THE GREAT LAWSUIT BETWEEN THE PARISHES OF ST DENNIS AND ST GEORGE IN THE WATER. (April 1824.)

A CONVERSATION BETWEEN MR ABRAHAM COWLEY AND MR JOHN MILTON, TOUCHING THE GREAT CIVIL WAR. SET DOWN BY A GENTLEMAN OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE. (August 1824.)

ON THE ATHENIAN ORATORS. (August 1824.)

A PROPHETIC ACCOUNT OF A GRAND NATIONAL EPIC POEM, TO BE ENTITLED "THE WELLINGTONIAD," AND TO BE PUBLISHED A.D. 2824. (November 1824.)

ON MITFORD'S HISTORY OF GREECE. (November 1824.)

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It was an hour after noon. Ligarius was returning from the Campus Martius. He strolled through one of the streets which led to the Forum, settling his gown, and calculating the odds on the gladiators who were to fence at the approaching Saturnalia. While thus occupied, he overtook Flaminius, who, with a heavy step and a melancholy face, was sauntering in the same direction. The light-hearted young man plucked him by the sleeve.

"Good-day, Flaminius. Are you to be of Catiline's party this evening?"

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"Time will show. I would hope that there may arise a man, whose genius to conquer, to conciliate, and to govern, may unite in one cause an oppressed and divided people;—may do all that Sylla should have done, and exhibit the magnificent spectacle of a great nation directed by a great mind."

"And where is such a man to be found?"

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