COPYRIGHT, 1860. BY SHELDON AND COMPANY.

Che Works of Lord Macaulay.

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ESSAYS,

VOL. I.

CONTENTS

OF

THE FIRST VOLUME.

PAGR

30

FRAGMENTS OF A ROMAN TALE. (Knight's Quarterly

Magazine, June 1823.) . . . . . .. 1

ON THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE. (Knight's

. Quarterly Magazine, June 1823.) . . 20

SCENES FROM “ ATHENIAN REVELS.” (Knight's Quar-

terly Magazine, January 1824.) . i .

CRITICISMS ON THE PRINCIPAL ITALIAN WRITERS.

No. I. DANTE. (Knights Quarterly Magazine, Jan-

uary 1824.)

. . . . . . . 55

CRITICISMS ON THE PRINCIPAL ITALIAN WRITERS.

No. II. PETRARCI. (Knight's Quarterly Magazine,

April 1824.) . . . . . . . . . 80

SOME ACCOUNT OF THE GREAT LAWSUIT BETWEEN

TIIE PARISHES OF ST. DENNIS AND ST. GEORGE

IN THE WATER. (Knight's Quarterly Magazine,

April 1824.) . . . . . . . . 100

A CONVERSATION BETWEEN MR. ABRAHAM COWLEY

AND MR. JOHN MILTON TOUCIIING THE GREAT

CIVIL WAR. (Knight's Quarterly Magazine, August

1824.) • • o •

112

ON THE ATHENIAN ORATO (Knight's Quarierig Mag :

azine, August 1824.) . . . . .