. Thackerayana;. Trinity; everybody was surehe would have the Latin hexameterprize which Brown of St. Johns, how-ever, carried off; and in this way oneUniversity honour after another was lostby him, until, after two or three failures,Mr. Pen ceased to compete. We are not informed how far thesequel of Pens college career coincideswith that of his author. The two his-tories are, however, identical in onefact, both the real and the ideal man ofgenius left the University abruptly andwithout taking honours. 1 At last came the Degree Examina-tions. Many a young man of his year,whose hob-nailed shoes
. Thackerayana;. Trinity; everybody was surehe would have the Latin hexameterprize which Brown of St. Johns, how-ever, carried off; and in this way oneUniversity honour after another was lostby him, until, after two or three failures,Mr. Pen ceased to compete. We are not informed how far thesequel of Pens college career coincideswith that of his author. The two his-tories are, however, identical in onefact, both the real and the ideal man ofgenius left the University abruptly andwithout taking honours. 1 At last came the Degree Examina-tions. Many a young man of his year,whose hob-nailed shoes Pen had de-rided, and whose faces or coat he had caricatured; many a manwhom he had treated with scorn in the lecture-room, or crushed with his eloquencein the debating-club ;many of his own set,who had not half hisbrains, but a little re-gularity and constancyof occupation, tookhigh places in the ho-nours or passed withdecent credit. Andwhere in the list wasPen the superb, Penthe wit and dandy,Pen the poet and.
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