=42= 4. =Frances Burney.= In Macaulay's essay on Madame d'Arblay, he says: "Her appearance is an important epoch in our literary history. Evelina was the first tale written by a woman, and purporting to be a picture of life and manners, that lived or deserved to live." Read this account of the "timid and obscure girl" who suddenly "found herself on the highest pinnacle of fame," eulogized by such men as Burke, Windham, Gibbon, Reynolds, and Sheridan. =42= 6. =Langton.= See page 30. =42= 10-11. =his temper.= In connection with this closing sentence let us remember a paragraph from Boswell (1776): "That he was occasionally remarkable for violence of temper may be granted: but let us ascertain the degree, and not let it be supposed that he was in a perpetual rage, and never without a club in his hand to knock down every one who approached him. On the contrary, the truth is, that by much the greatest part of his time he was civil, obliging, nay, polite in the true sense of the word; so much so, that many gentlemen who were long acquainted with him never received, or even heard a strong expression from him." FOOTNOTES: [1] Trevelyan, _Life and Letters_, I, 41. [2] Trevelyan, I, 47. [3] The entire letter is interesting. See Trevelyan, I, 56. The letters of this period are particularly attractive. [4] _Ibid._ I, 91. [5] Trevelyan, I, 102. The letters from college are well worth reading. [6] Trevelyan, I, 136. [7] _Ibid._, 179. [8] Trevelyan, I, 249-253. [9] Trevelyan, I, 368. [10] _Ibid._, II, 68. [11] Trevelyan, II, 89. [12] _Carlyle's Essay on Burns_, p. 5, Ginn's edition. [13] Trevelyan, II. 96. [14] For Trevelyan's evidence, see II, 191. [15] Trevelyan, II, 244. [16] _Ibid._, 321. [17] Trevelyan, II, 15. [18] _The Quarterly Review_, July, 1876. [19] It is proper to observe that this passage bears a very close resemblance to a passage in the Rambler (No. 20). The resemblance may possibly be the effect of unconscious plagiarism.--_Macaulay._ Transcriber's Notes: Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed. Simple typographical errors were corrected. To preserve line numbers on pages 1-75, each line on those pages is shown here as it appeared in the original book, with two exceptions: to make the text searchable, words originally split across two lines have been made whole by moving them to one or the other of those lines; and a few words have been moved to adjacent lines so they would not extend into the area reserved for line numbers. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson, by Thomas Babington Macaulay