Thomas Babington Macaulay
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Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay was a British historian, poet and Whig politician who served as the Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841, and as the Paymaster General between 1846 and
Photogravure of Macaulay by Antoine Claudet
Macaulay by John Partridge
Portrait of Thomas Babington Macaulay by Francis Grant, 1853
The Funeral of Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay, by Sir George Scharf
Lays of Ancient Rome
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Lays of Ancient Rome is an 1842 collection of narrative poems, or lays, by Thomas Babington Macaulay. Four of these recount heroic episodes from early Roman history with strong dramatic and tragic the
Thomas Babington Macaulay
…great-nephew was the Cambridge historian G. M. Trevelyan. As a young man he composed the ballads Ivry and The Armada, which he later included as part of Lays of Ancient Rome, a series of very popular poems about heroic episodes in Roman history which he began composing in India and continued in Rome, finally publishing in…
Lays of Ancient Rome, 1881 edition
Horatius defending the Sublician bridge, illustrated by John Reinhard Weguelin for the 1881 edition.
John Reinhard Weguelin: 'Castor and Pollux fighting at the Battle of Lake Regillus', from the 1881 edition.