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he describes it himself, a -knack at hoping;" and at all
times, it must with equal certainty be affirmed, a knack at getting into scrapes. Like Samuel Johnson at Oxford he avoided lectures when ho could, and Waa a ioimger at '^ college gate * The popular picture of him in thege Dub]in University clays, m little more, than of a slow, hesitating somewhat hollow voice, heard neldoni and always to great disadvantage in the clasn-ruomH ; and of a low-sized, thick robust, ungainly figure, luiuiging about the college courts on the wait for misery and ill-luck,
His Edgeworthstown schoolfellow, Beatty, had entered
among the sizars with him, and for a time shared his rooms. They are described as the top-rooms adjoining the library of the building numbnrwl 8/f. whom the name of Oliver .Goldsmith may still bo wcii, wn-atchorf by himself upon a window-pane,!- Another siair, Marshall, is said to have been another of his uhimw. Among his occasional asso- ciates, were certainly Edward Mills, Ida relative ; Robert Bryanton, a Ballymahoit youth, nlno his relative, of whom he was fond; Charles ,md Edward Purdon, whom he lived to befriend; James Willingtan, whoHe name lie afterwards had permission to use in London, for low literary work he was ashamed to put his own to ; t Wilson § and Kearney, subsequently doctors and fellows of the college; Wolfen also well known; || and Lauchlim Miic-Jonne, whose political pamphlets, muwceptfld clmlli-iiffo to Willcos, and general party oxoitiouB.-made a iwm In the world twenty or thirty |
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