Stories of Authors, British And American
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XXII MACAULAY'S CHILDHOOD Macaulay is one of the brilliant lights of the first half of the lastcentury. Trevelyan's _Life and Letters_ of Macaulay gives us aninteresting glimpse of his childhood. When his parents moved from theheart of London into a less crowded district, Macaulay, baby though hewas, kept the early impressions of the place.
"He remembered, " says his biographer, "standing up at the nurserywindow by his father's side, looking at a cloud of black smoke pouringout of a tall chimne...y. He asked if that was hell: an inquiry that wasreceived with great displeasure which at the time he could notunderstand. The kindly father must have been pained almost against hisown will at finding what feature of his stern creed it was that hadembodied itself in so very material a shape before his little son'simagination. When in after days, Mrs. Macaulay was questioned as tohow soon she began to detect in the child a promise of the future, sheused to say that his sensibilities and affections were remarkablydeveloped at an age which to her hearers appeared next to incredible.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
XXII MACAULAY'S CHILDHOOD Macaulay is one of the brilliant lights of the first half of the lastcentury. Trevelyan's _Life and Letters_ of Macaulay gives us aninteresting glimpse of his childhood. When his parents moved from theheart of London into a less crowded district, Macaulay, baby though hewas, kept the early impressions of the place.
"He remembered, " says his biographer, "standing up at the nurserywindow by his father's side, looking at a cloud of black smoke pouringout of a tall chimne...y. He asked if that was hell: an inquiry that wasreceived with great displeasure which at the time he could notunderstand. The kindly father must have been pained almost against hisown will at finding what feature of his stern creed it was that hadembodied itself in so very material a shape before his little son'simagination. When in after days, Mrs. Macaulay was questioned as tohow soon she began to detect in the child a promise of the future, sheused to say that his sensibilities and affections were remarkablydeveloped at an age which to her hearers appeared next to incredible.
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