# Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2

Author: Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2168

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Miscellaneous+Writings+and+Speeches+Macaulay&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

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. It is allowed that, even of the few who were his superiors in genius, none has exercised a more extensive or permanent influence on the national habits of thought and expression. His life was commensurate with the period during which a great revolution in the public taste was effected; and in that revolution he played the part of Cromwell. By unscrupulously taking the lead in its wildest excesses, he obtained the absolute guidance of it. By trampling on laws, he acquired the authority of a legislator. By signalising h...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-2-2168/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-2-2168/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-2-2168/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-2-2168/chapters/24/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-2-2168/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-2-2168/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-2-2168/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-2-2168/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 32](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-2-2168/chapters/32/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-2-2168/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-2-2168/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-2-2168/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 31](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-2-2168/chapters/31/index.md)
- [Chapter 33](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-2-2168/chapters/33/index.md)
- [Chapter 26](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-2-2168/chapters/26/index.md)
- [Chapter 28](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-2-2168/chapters/28/index.md)
- [Chapter 30](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-2-2168/chapters/30/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-2-2168/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-2-2168/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 34](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-2-2168/chapters/34/index.md)
- [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-2-2168/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-2-2168/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 27](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-2-2168/chapters/27/index.md)
- [Chapter 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-2-2168/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Chapter 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-2-2168/chapters/23/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-2-2168/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-2-2168/chapters/25/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-2-2168/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 35](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-2-2168/chapters/35/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-2-2168/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-2-2168/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-2-2168/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-2-2168/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-2-2168/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 29](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-2-2168/chapters/29/index.md)
- [Chapter 36](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-2-2168/chapters/36/index.md)