Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson, with a Selection from his Essay on Johnson. Томас Бабингтон Маколей

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СКАЧАТЬ to disgust. At Lichfield, however, Johnson could find no way of earning a livelihood. He became usher of a grammar school in Leicestershire; he resided as a humble companion in the house of a country gentleman; but a life of dependence was insupportable to his haughty spirit. He repaired to Birmingham, and there earned a few guineas by literary drudgery. In that town he printed a translation, little noticed at the time, and long forgotten, of a Latin book about Abyssinia. He then put forth proposals for publishing by subscription the poems of Politian, with notes containing a history of modern Latin verse: but subscriptions did not come in; and the volume never appeared.

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      1

      Trevelyan, Life and Letters, I, 41.

      2

      Trevelyan, I, 47.

      3

      The entire letter is interesting. See Trevelyan, I, 56. The letters of this period ar

1

Trevelyan, Life and Letters, I, 41.

2

Trevelyan, I, 47.

3

The entire letter is interesting. See Trevelyan, I, 56. The letters of this period are particularly attractive.

4

Ibid. I, 91.

5

Trevelyan, I, 102. The letters from college are well worth reading.

6

Trevelyan, I, 136.

7

Ibid., 179.

8

Trevelyan, I, 249–253.

9

Trevelyan, I, 368.

10

Ibid., II, 68.

11

Trevelyan, II, 89.

12

Carlyle's Essay on Burns, p. 5, Ginn's edition.

13

Trevelyan, II. 96.

14

For Trevelyan's evidence, see II, 191.

15

Trevelyan, II, 244.

16

Ibid., 321.

17

Trevelyan, II, 15.

18

The Quarterly Review, July, 1876.

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