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§8. "History of England". II. Historians, Biographers and Political Orators. Vol. 14. The Victorian Age, Part ... |
 | | When, in 1848, the first two volumes of The History of England, to which Macaulays ever-growing public had looked forward for many years, at last appeared, and were received with unbounded applause, it was already a less extensive plan to which the great achievement would clearly have to be restricted. |
 | | In 1849, he declined the professorship of modern history at Cambridge, and, though he returned to parliament in 1852, the broken state of his health determined him, in 1856, to withdraw altogether from public life. |
 | | The great whig, protestant and patriotically English History, with its grand epical movement, its brilliant colouring and its irresistible spirit of perfect harmony between the writer and his task, is, thus, one of the literary masterpieces of the Victorian age. |
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