Название: Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson, with a Selection from his Essay on Johnson
Автор: Томас Бабингтон Маколей
Издательство: Public Domain
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Piozzi, Mrs. Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson during the Last Twenty Years of his Life. 1786.
Same, in the cheap National Series. The Cassell Company.
Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. 1788.
Stephen, Leslie. History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century.
Dr. Johnson's Writings (in Hours in a Library, Vol. II).
Samuel Johnson. Dictionary of National Biography.
Samuel Johnson. English Men of Letters Series. Harper & Brothers. (Cloth or paper.)
Bagehot, Walter. Thomas Babington Macaulay. (In Literary Studies.)
Brewer, E. Cobham, LL.D. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. The Historic Note-book.
Clark, J. Scott. Thomas Babington Macaulay. (In A Study of English Prose Writers.)
Gladstone, W. E. Gleanings of Past Years.
Harrison, Frederic. Lord Macaulay. (In Early Victorian Literature.)
Macaulay, Thomas B. Critical and Historical Essays, contributed to the Edinburgh Review. Trevelyan edition, in two volumes. Longmans, Green, and Co.
The History of England from the Accession of James II.
Works. Complete edition, by Lady Trevelyan, in eight volumes. Longmans, Green, and Co.
Minto, William. Manual of English Prose Literature.
Morison, J. Cotter. Macaulay. (In English Men of Letters, edited by John Morley.)
Pattison, Mark. Macaulay. (In the Encyclopædia Britannica.)
Stephen, Leslie. Macaulay. (In the Dictionary of National Biography; in Hours in a Library.)
Trevelyan, G. Otto. The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, in two volumes; also two volumes in one.
Besant, Walter. London in the Eighteenth Century.
Hare, Augustus John. Walks in London.
Hutton, Laurence. Literary Landmarks of London.
Wheatley, Henry B. London, Past and Present.
VI. CHRONOLOGY OF MACAULAY'S LIFE AND WORKS
1800. Born.
1814. Sent to boarding school.
1818. Entered Trinity College, Cambridge.
1822. Graduated as B.A.
1824. Degree of M.A. Elected Fellow. First public speech.
1825. First contribution to the Edinburgh Review: essay on Milton.
1826. Called to the bar.
1828. Commissioner of Bankruptcy.
1830. Member of Parliament for Calne. First speech in Parliament.
1831. Speeches on the Reform Bill. Essay on Boswell's Life of Johnson.
1833. Member of Parliament for Leeds. Essay on Horace Walpole.
1834. Essay on William Pitt, Earl of Chatham. Sailed for India as legal adviser to the Supreme Council.
1837. Penal Code finished.
1838. His father died. Returned to England. Visited Italy.
1839. Elected to the Club. Member of Parliament for Edinburgh. Secretary at War.
1840. Essay on Lord Clive.
1841. Reëlected to Parliament for Edinburgh. Essay on Warren Hastings.
1842. Lays of Ancient Rome published.
1843. Essay on Madame d'Arblay. Essay on the Life and Writings of Addison.
1844. Essay on the Earl of Chatham. (The second essay on this subject, and his last contribution to the Edinburgh Review.)
1846. Paymaster-General of the Army. Defeated in Edinburgh election.
1848. First two volumes of his History of England.
1849. Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow.
1852. Again elected to Parliament from Edinburgh, although not a candidate. Failing health.
1854. Life of John Bunyan.
1855. Third and fourth volumes of his History of England. (The fifth volume appeared after his death.)
1856. Resigned his seat in Parliament. Life of Samuel Johnson. Life of Oliver Goldsmith.
1857. Became Baron Macaulay of Rothley.
1859. Life of William Pitt. Died December 28.
VII. CHRONOLOGY OF JOHNSON'S LIFE AND WORKS
1709. Born September 18.
1728. Entered Pembroke College, Oxford. Turned Pope's Messiah into Latin verse.
1731. Left Oxford. His father died.
1735. Married. Opened an academy at Edial.
1737. Went to London.
1738. His first important work: London. Began to write for The Gentleman's Magazine.
1744. Life of Savage.
1747. Prospectus of the Dictionary.
1749. The Vanity of Human Wishes. Irene.
1750–1752. The Rambler.
1752. Death of his wife.
1755. Letter to Chesterfield. The Dictionary appeared.
1758–1760. The Idler.
1759. Death of his mother. Rasselas.
1762. Pensioned.
1763. Met Boswell for the first time.
1764. The Club founded.
1765. Made Doctor of Laws by Trinity College, Dublin. Introduced to the Thrales. His edition of Shakspere published.
1773. Spent three months in Scotland.
1775. Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland published. Taxation no Tyranny. Received the degree of Doctor in Civil Law from Oxford.
1779. First four volumes of his Lives of the Poets.
1781. The remaining six volumes of the Lives.
1784. Died December 13.
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