The Fool of Quality (Classic Reprint)

Angebote / Angebote:

Excerpt from The Fool of QualityThe nnivasity register already quoted proves that Henry Brooke went to a third school, about which nothing further is known. Brmhm preserves many relics of his juvenilia, pmmandversqnoneoftheminanywayremarkahle, except as showing his natural bent (or literary composition. Dr. Sheridan made him an excellent classi scholar, but the share Dominic Comerford had had in his education must not be forgotten. It was largely to his mother and her training that he owed his deep religious fervour, and his love of civil and religions liberty, both of which were to be exhibited powerfully in his conduct and his writings, and to have no small effect upon his fortunes.Though Henry had been entered as a pensioner at Trinity College, Dublin, and duly served his terms, he was not intended by his father to follow his own footsteps in the Church, but was sent to London in 1724 to read law. In his short stay at the Temple, he made the acquaintance of several men of wit and learning, including Pope and Lord Lyttelton Swift he had already met at Rantayan. The Dean is reported to have said that Brooke was a 'young man of genius, but he was sorry to find that genius incline to poetry, which of all other pur suits was the most unprofitable) He treated the young man with great kindness and indulgence, and was repaid bysincereadmirationforhispowersandkeensympathy with the patriotism displayed in the Drapr'er': Letters. Brooke was suddenly recalled to Ireland by the news that a beloved aunt was on her death-bed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.