"Testiness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... untrue is meant as that this is an account of Macaulay's own quality. What is empty pretension in the leading article, was often a warranted self-assertion in Macaulay; what in it is little more than testiness, is in him often a generous indignation. What became and still remain in those who have made him their model, substantive and organic vices, the foundation of literary character and intellectual temper, were in him the incidental ...
— Critical Miscellanies, Volume I (of 3) - Essay 4: Macaulay • John Morley |
