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Title: The Maclise portrait-gallery of "illustrious literary characters", with memoirs biographical, critical, bibliographical & anecdotal, illustrative of the literature of the former half of the present century
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Maclise, Daniel, 1806-1870 Bates, William, d. 1884
Subjects: Authors Authors, English Journalists
Publisher: London : Chatto and Windus
Contributing Library: The Centre for 19th Century French Studies - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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le ! He received his earlier education under the care of the well-knownSamuel Whyte, of Grafton Street, who will be remembered alike by his ownliterary productions, and as the early tutor of Sheridan. At the age offourteen, he became a student of Trinity College, Dublin, when, zV/Z^r-^Z/^:,he gained the medal of the Historical Society for a poetical extravaganzaentitled An Ode upon Nothing, with Notes by Trismagistus Rusti-fustius ; and in 1799, choosing the law as a profession, he proceeded 10London to enter at the Middle Temple, with a little packet of guineas,as a viaticum, and a scapular blessed by the priest as a charm againstevil, sewed up by his careful mother in the waistband of his pantaloons.As the classical studies of Lockhart produced that direction of thought towhich we owe Valerius^ so it is to the college life of INIoore that we areindebted for the first fruits of his genius, the translation of Anacreon.This had a consid.-rable success. So long as youth, and beauty, and
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TME AlJTIHKttffi ©F JLAJLJLA mOOJlLEI THOMAS MOORE. 23 love, and mirth, exert their soft influence to gladden the life of man, evenso long will the Teian bard, who was even then an ancient when Horace^^•rote— •* Nee si quid olini lusit AnacreonDelevit setas — be immortal on the earth ; and thus the version of Moore, which thoughpossibly deficient in scholarship, was yet found sufficiently symphoniouswith the old Greek spirit of the original to be pretty generally read andadmired.* His patron. Lord Moira, had made him known to the PrinceRegent, and induced that much-maligned man to subscribe to the book,and accept the dedication. By the joint influence of the two, underAddingtons administration in 1803, Moore obtained the appointment to asnug sinecure,—or the next thing to it,—of some ^400 a year nett, as Regis-trar to the Admiralty Court of Bermuda. He enjoyed this office for fifteenyears, a deputy doing what real work it involved. At the close of thisperiod Moore, who se

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