Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson, with a Selection from his Essay on Johnson

peared in 1831 and gave the writer a welcome opportunity to show the inaccuracy and unreliability of Croker, one of his political opponents. Nearly on

of the encyclop?dia writes that it was entirely to Macaulay's friendly feeling that he was "indebted for those literary gems, which could not have been purchased with money"; that "he made it a stipulation of his contr

whether there is any evidence of improvement in Macaulay's use of Eng