Critical and Historical Essays. Volume 3

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Томас Бабингтон Маколей

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Зарубежная классика

Год написания книги

2018

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Burney, Dr. Charles, parentage, iii. 334 (#x10_x_10_i25).

Society in his home, 337 (#x10_x_10_i32).

Urges his daughter to accept the Queen's offer, 361 (#x11_x_11_i17).

Consents at last to her retirement, 374 (#x11_x_11_i34).

Burney, Fanny. See D'Arblay, Madame.

Bussy, his conduct in India, ii. 695.

Bute, Earl of, influence over George III., iii. 606 (#x18_x_18_i84).

Character, 607 (#x18_x_18_i86).

His kind of Toryism, 608 (#x19_x_19_i0).

Brought into the government, 611 (#x19_x_19_i3).

Becomes Secretary of State, 618 (#x19_x_19_i14).

Error of dismissing Newcastle, 621 (#x19_x_19_i18).

Detested on several grounds, 626 (#x19_x_19_i25).

Resigns, 635 (#x19_x_19_i41).

His career, 636 (#x19_x_19_i44).

Byng, Admiral, was he a martyr to political party? i. 696.

His failure at Minorca, ii. 266.

His trial, 269.

Opinion of his conduct, 269.

Chatham's defence of, 270.

Byron, Lord, Moore's Life of, i. 569.

His character and surroundings unfortunate, 571.

Petted and persecuted, 572.

Condemned unheard, 575.

His excesses in Italy, 577.

Goes to Greece and dies, 579.

Lot cast in a literary revolution, 580.

Largely contributed to the emancipation of literature, though naturally a reactionary, 594.

A creature of his age, 596.

The reverse of a great dramatist, 597.

Lacked diversity in characterization, 600.

Tendency to soliloquy, 600.

Lack of dramatic effect, 601.

Excelled in description, 602.

His morbidness, 603.

Influence largely due to his egotism, 605.

His popularity among young readers, 605.

Byron, Lady, quarrel with her husband, i. 573.

Cabal, the, its designs, ii. 538, 544, 548, 549.

Cadiz, exploit of Essex at the siege of, ii. 156, 385.

Pillaged by the British, 157.

Cæsar, Claudius, resemblance of James I. to, ii. 12.

Cæsars, the, parallel between them and the Tudors, not applicable, ii. 81.

Cæsar's Commentaries, i. 259.

Calcutta, its position on the Hoogley, ii. 702.

Scene of the Black Hole of, 704.

Resentment of the English at its fall, 766.

Again threatened by Surajah Dowlah, 709.

Revival of its prosperity, 720.

Its sufferings during the famine, 750.