Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1860-02-08
Death Of rhomas harrington Maoaulay,

eat stars His elevation to the Peerage few years
since conferred no new hOnOrs, and added no lustre
to reputation already ripe with all the wealth that
genius aud talent could bsstOw, Plain Thomas Bah
ipgton Maeaalsy Was dearer to the admirers u wit
and genius than the gartsT,i Peer and his LOrdshp
wore no eOrVnet in the House Of Lords brilliant
than that the House Of Commons and the world Of
Letters hal already placed upon his brow, The
brilliant historian, the just critic, essays', orator
and poet his star hal already eliminated to It's ie-
NTH. ere his Sovereign had concluded to elevate nun
to the high rank Of Peer Of the Realm
lie died On the 18th Dee, u dsehe OF tue near
anil was nearly 80 years u age Born OF seo'ush
ancestors, aud al time too when theology anu Po-
emcs were the .tudy Of the gentleman and the seh"l-
we'll ,s the Divine, We need not wonder that in
most u, his writings We ind much Of the spri, Of the
old C,lynist auI Presbyterian, and much OF the
stropg and intimate connection that theological mat
Ter. lore to those Of State, during the time OF his
pupage and those little anterior to his birth. His
,lebut into the literary world was male through the
pages Of the Edinburgh Review, In which were found
the choicest gems from the pens Of Talfauri, jeffrey
Alison, Wilson, Sidney Smith, Carlyle and that noble
army Of Reviewers that have rendered English Lit
eraure as permanent as tine itself As an essayist'
his style was once considered inflated, aud tneIurcd
with pelantry-a charge established by the character
IL his earlier productions, when his imagination was
glowing with the fire of uRtnmed and unframed ge-
nius-when his fancy was luSuriant with the wild
growth Of torrid sun, aud when youth was hot,
ready aud eager for the field. His essay Oh Milton
is gorgeous with imagery, poetic MS the day dreams
Of Malyolio, aud clothed in words than burn, and
filled with thoughts that ired his young heart The
name Of Milton was well calculated TO in the
mind OF the youthful Calyinist all the poetry, and
sublime surroundings that attach to the wonderful
and all absorbing mysteries of that age, when the
Deity was 0mniscent, 0mnpotent and Forcordaining.
An ardent disciple of the stern doctrines of Calvin,
and warm and enthusiastic admirer of Milton, no
wonder that his soul cmptied itself on those pages
that contained his virgin essay, and no wonder that
he plumel his pinions before such shrine, ere he
took his flight into region to him then unknown.-
The immortal works Of Milton helped to inspire the
enthusiast and lent their Promehean fire to light an
other star into existence. The essay upon Boswell's
Life of johnson is unsurpassed just critque upon
has ever known. Boswell "who wrote like an angel
and talked like poor Po,' was man that possessed
none of the talents that ordinarily rnse men to emf
hence as writer's He frank because he was weak,
and his Life of johnson was read by thousands who
reyiled and coutemned the author. Everybody read
and delighted with the book, but Boswell, its
thor, mentioned, save to be ridculed, ms
loquacious fool and a contemplate toady. Boswell
gained his celebrity by writing the life Of that remark
able man, Johnson, and Macaulay has achieved
triumph by his critque upon Boswell's labors As
politician he was leader amongst the Wings, in
cOntadistincon to the theory and practices of the
Tories. His first political effort was a triumph over
Praed, the Tory and since then, and at much Ia
Ter period he has wrtteu short but pointed and
compact 5zcgasis on The roo and atthsal Wing. He
saya tha. the sings exist for The PEOPLE md not the
people for the kings % that the right Of q kim IS
divine m other than hat va ~hjch The right Of
nmsm5cr Of Parliament, Of judge, of "a JurymaE,
a divine TINT while the chief magistrate governs
according 20 n. ne opshtt TO be oJeyed and reverence
.I tuAt Nhru ac violates the law grossly and sys-
tca.@ra!s, he ought TO be lauoscd." Re was % Ih
era the highest sense OF the word,-and his essay
upon the Civil Disabilities of the Jews, has been
much quoted in our own country, during the period
when the raid against Catholics and the Pope was in
full blast. As poet, the Lays of Ancient Rome,
will long be read and remembered, the suspiria de
profndis of heart that was alive to every beauty
Who has not read his History of England and
dwelt with rapt delight upon those pages, adorned
with the gorgeous arabcsques of fancy that cleaned
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and Dante? Who has not wondered Mt the bright
and perfumcd flowers that bloom where all was stale
and barren, before he dipped his pen in Castaan
tiers and wrote History of Church and State, that
ves with the most vouptuous romance in poetic i'm
agcry and beauty of dction? Who has not followed
him through the first pages of that wonderful history,
touching here and there, and elciting music sweet
when the cnraptured harper filings his fingers over
the chords of his instrument at random, and with the
wldness of inspiration? Who has not stood with
him, ut the death of Charles II, and seen the
merry monarch in his last extremity in his dies irae,
when the young and seductive Duchess of Portsmouth
and her attendant train of frail ones fed from his
death couch in horror, and when blank amazement
and CONSERVATION seized upon the Court, and his
Queen wept alone in her chamber? Who has not
smiled to even at such scene the peerng visage
of the confessor, and noted the feigned simplicity
with which, the historian introduces this important
parsonage? The Church has felt the sting of the
confessor at the death bed of her visible and living
head but then NIacaulay was Calvinst and Pres
byterian, and the Church may pardon this covert
stab, as the Quakers to have pardoned the ex-
humaton of suspicious documents against William
Penn 1t was Truth that rendered Boswell's life of
johnson immortal, and it is the same essential quail
ty that will render Macauay eternal as historian
Elected for the last time from Ednburg, one would
naturally expect much of the sternness, and unyied-
ing perseverance of the Scotchman in him and dur
ing his entire service as q member of Parliament and