Excerpt from Humours of Irish Life The first of the notable humorists of Irish life was William Maginn, one of the most versatile, as well as brilliant of Irish men of letters. He was born in Cork in 1793, and was a classical schoolmaster there in early manhood, having secured the degree of LL.D. At Trinity College, Dublin, when only 23 years of age. The success in Blackwood's Magazine of some of his translations of English verse into the Classics induced him, however, to give up teaching and to seek his fortunes as a ...
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Excerpt from Humours of Irish Life The first of the notable humorists of Irish life was William Maginn, one of the most versatile, as well as brilliant of Irish men of letters. He was born in Cork in 1793, and was a classical schoolmaster there in early manhood, having secured the degree of LL.D. At Trinity College, Dublin, when only 23 years of age. The success in Blackwood's Magazine of some of his translations of English verse into the Classics induced him, however, to give up teaching and to seek his fortunes as a magazine writer and journalist in London, at a time when Lamb, De Quincey, Lockhart and Wilson gave most of their writings to magazines. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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