Excerpt from Macaulay's Essay on Milton: Edited, With Introduction, Notes, Etc But is not the pupil robbed of much useful discipline in research by a type of editing which offers so much material between the covers of a single book, and is not the teacher robbed of opportuni ties that rightfully belong to him, by notes that ask many of his questions in advance? No; both are merely relieved of an ele ment of drudgery in their work, whereby they may the more joy ously traverse together a path where the interest IS varied and inexhaustible. The text is that prepared by Macaulay for the first collected edition of his essays. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.