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Macaulay slibrary contained many books, of nogreat intrinsic value in themselves, which are readable, from the first page to the last, for the sake of his manuscript notes inscribed in immense profusion down their margins. He was contented, when the humour took him, to amuse his solitary hours with such productions as Percival Stockdale smemoirs, and the six volumes of Miss Anna Seward s Letters. ... More

Macaulay slibrary contained many books, of nogreat intrinsic value in themselves, which are readable, from the first page to the last, for the sake of his manuscript notes inscribed in immense profusion down their margins. He was contented, when the humour took him, to amuse his solitary hours with such productions as Percival Stockdale smemoirs, and the six volumes of Miss Anna Seward s Letters. His running commentary on those trivial and pretentious authors was as the breaking of a butterfly beneath the impact of a cheerful steam -hammer. I ngenious, (so Miss Seward wrote to a correspondent,) is your parallel between the elder and the modern Erasmus. The modern Erasmus, said Macaulay, is Darwin. That anybody should have thought of making a parallel between him and the elder Erasmus is odd indeed. They had nothing but the name in common. One might as well make a parallel between Csesar and Sir Caesar Hawkins.
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