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Poet, dramatist, and essayist, s. of an Irish clergyman, was b. at Pallasmore in Co. Longford. His early education was received at various schools at Elphin, Athlone, and Edgeworthstown. At the age of 8 he had a severe attack of smallpox which disfigured him for life. In 1744 he went to Trinity Coll., Dublin, whence, having come into collision with one of the coll. tutors, he ran away in 1746.
A cord for ever against fifty fathom of water, though not in the sense of the base proverb a fico for the phrase, better sus. per funem, than sus. per coll."
Dined with my wife at noon and took leave of her, she being to go to London, as I said, for altogether, and I to the office, busy till past one in the morning. 3rd. It being Lord's day, up and dressed and to church, thinking to have sat with Sir James Bunce to hear his daughter and her husband sing, that are so much commended, but was prevented by being invited into Coll. Cleggatt's pew.
He has a place in literature for his History of Canada in 10 vols., a work of careful research, though not distinguished for purely literary merits. Novelist and historian, s. of a clergyman, was b. at Holne Vicarage near Dartmoor, but passed most of his childhood at Barnack in the Fen country, and Clovelly in Devonshire, ed. at King's Coll., London, and Camb.
He was a contributor to Blackwood's Magazine, in which appeared his best known poem, The Forging of the Anchor, and was one of the chief promoters of the Gaelic revival in Irish literature. His coll. poems appeared under the title of Lays of the Western Gael , Congal, an epic poem , and his prose tales posthumously , as Hibernian Nights' Entertainments.
Poet, b. in Dublin, s. of a grocer and wine-merchant in a small way, was ed. at Trinity Coll., after which he went to London, and studied law at the Middle Temple, 1799. He took with him a translation of Anacreon, which appeared, dedicated to the Prince Regent, in 1800, was well received, and made a position for him. In the following year appeared Poems by Thomas Little.
Paul saw well enough, One man carrying on his arm a coll of rope, the lariat of Mexico, lay down in the long grass which completely hid him, but both Henry and Paul knew that he was creeping forward inch by inch toward the beautiful stallion that was grazing not ten yards from the woods.
He was made a D.D. by royal mandate in 1670, and two years later Master of Trinity Coll., where he founded the library.
Jowett with another character-sketch of Gladstone. After reading them, he wrote me this letter: BALL. COLL. Oct. 23rd, 1890. The sketch of Gladstone is excellent. Pray write some more of it some time: I understand him better after reading it. The young lady's portrait of herself is quite truthful and not at all flattered: shall I add a trait or two?
"Oh, the Coll. 'ud go to pieces in a year, sir. There's no doubt o' that." "How d'you know?" The Reverend John was smiling. "We've been here nearly six years now. There are precious few things about the Coll. we don't know," Stalky replied. "Why, even you came the term after I did, sir. I remember your asking our names in form your first lesson. Mr. King, Mr.
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