Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson, with a Selection from his Essay on Johnson
by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay
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Chapters (86)
- MACAULAY'S LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON
- PREFATORY NOTE
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- I. AN INTRODUCTION TO MACAULAY (1800–1859)
- II. MACAULAY AND HIS LITERARY CONTEMPORARIES
- III. THE STUDY OF MACAULAY
- IV. MACAULAY ON JOHNSON
- V. REFERENCE BOOKS
- Boswell
- Johnson
- Macaulay
- London
- VI. CHRONOLOGY OF MACAULAY'S LIFE AND WORKS
- VII. CHRONOLOGY OF JOHNSON'S LIFE AND WORKS
- LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON (December, 1856)
- FROM MACAULAY'S ESSAY ON CROKER'S EDITION OF BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON (Edinburgh Review, September, 1831)
- NOTES
- FOOTNOTES
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