Excerpt from Macaulay's Essays on Milton and Addison: Edited for School Use With the hope of encouraging this attitude I have ventured to assume the responsibility of setting a oat one more annotated text of Macau lay. Realizing that, in dealing with the work of a writer Whose affiliations with literature are chie y formal (introduction, there is no escape from considerations of style, I have frankly put the matter foremost. But' I have tried to take a broad view of its significance, and in partie ular I have tried to do Macaulay justice. Alto gether too many pupils have carried away from the study of him the narrow idea that his great achievement consisted in using one or two very patent (but, if they only knew it, very petty) rhetor ical devices. It has been the primary aim of my Introduction to set these matters in their right perspective. I have not outlined specific methods of study, which are to be found everywhere by those who value them, but both Introduction and Notes contain many suggestions. It seems better to stop at this. Even the few illustrations I have used have been preferably drawn from essays not here printed. No editor should wish to take from teacher or pupil the profit of investigation or the stimulus of discovery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."