. Thackerayana;. First Term. Second Term From Charterhouse School Thackeray went to Trinity College,Cambridge, about 1828, the year of his leaving the Charterhouse,and among his fellow-students there had Mr. John MitchellKemble, the great Anglo-Saxon scholar, and Mr. the latter—then unknown as a poet—he formed an ac- COLLEGE DA VS. 5 quaintance which he maintained to the last, and no reader of thePoet Laureate had a more earnest admiration of his productionsthan his old Cambridge associate, Thackeray. At college,Thackeray kept seven or eight terms, but took no degree : thoughhe w
. Thackerayana;. First Term. Second Term From Charterhouse School Thackeray went to Trinity College,Cambridge, about 1828, the year of his leaving the Charterhouse,and among his fellow-students there had Mr. John MitchellKemble, the great Anglo-Saxon scholar, and Mr. the latter—then unknown as a poet—he formed an ac- COLLEGE DA VS. 5 quaintance which he maintained to the last, and no reader of thePoet Laureate had a more earnest admiration of his productionsthan his old Cambridge associate, Thackeray. At college,Thackeray kept seven or eight terms, but took no degree : thoughhe was studious, and his love of classical literature is apparent inmost of his writings, either in his occasional apt two words fromHorace, or in the quaint and humorous adoption of Latin idioms
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