It was most reluctantly that I determined to suspend, during the last autumn, a work which is the business and the pleasure of my life, in order to prepare these Speeches for publication; and it is most reluctantly that I now give them to the world.
The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Volume III
Francis Atterbury, a man who holds a conspicuous place in the political, ecclesiastical, and literary history of England, was born in the year 1662, at Middleton in Buckinghamshire, a parish of which his father was rector.
The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Volume II
The public voice has assigned to Dryden the first place in the second rank of our poets,–no mean station in a table of intellectual precedency so rich in illustrious names.
The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Volume I
Lord Macaulay always looked forward to a publication of his miscellaneous works, either by himself or by those who should represent him after his death. And latterly he expressly reserved, whenever the arrangements as to copyright made it necessary, the right of such publication.