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Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 3 With a Memoir and Index by Thomas Babington Macaulay explores english literature — history and criticism, great britain — history.
Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 3 With a Memoir and Index is a work by Thomas Babington Macaulay. Its subjects include English literature — History and criticism, Great Britain — History.
From the opening pages: “The {1}work of Dr. Nares has filled us with astonishment similar to that which Captain Lemuel Gulliver felt when he first landed in Brobdingnag, and saw corn as high as the oaks in the New Forest, thimbles as large as buckets, and wrens of the bulk of turkeys. The whole book, and every component part of it, is on a gigantic scale. The title is as long as an ordinary preface: the prefatory matter would furnish out an ordinary book; and the book contains as much reading as an ordinary library. We cannot sum up the merits of the stupendous mass of paper which lies before us better than by saying that it consists of about two thousand closely printed quarto pages, that it occupies fifteen hundred inches cubic measure, and”
