The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore: Edited With Memoir and Notes (Classic Reprint) - Tapa dura

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Moore's name, it will therefore be seen, was entered betimes in his sixteenth, and not, as heretofore stated, in his twentieth year, as a student at the Middle Temple. He was still at that time the merest boyish alumnus at the Dublin University. There he contrived to win his way from the outset, boy though he was, by his vivacity, his industry, and his accomplishments. His diminutive Size, even when he had come to be full grown, preserved to him for an unusual period in early manhood an air Of adolescence. It confused people as to his age even in childhood; insomuch that when, as a small creature of seven, he had been going through one of his precocious recitations, Oh, he's a little old crab! Said a matron half indignantly; he can't be less than eleven or twelve years at the least. Whereupon a gentleman seated next her, who knew the family a trifle better than she did, won the heart Of Tom's mother for ever after by exclaiming with Irish unction, Then, madam, if that be the case, he must have been four years Old before he Was born! Quizzing acquaintance affected to regard him as in league with the little people, meaning the fairies. Being early discovered to have an agreeable voice and a natural taste for singing, he may be said to have warbled even from his infancy. -the rudiments of his knowledge as an iustru mental performer he had picked up with almost baby fingers upon an old harpsi chord which his father had received as part-payment Of a debt from a bankrupt customer. Afterwards, however, when that ramshackle instrument had, with the help of certain savings Of his mother's, been exchanged for the long-coveted piano, one Of the dominant passions of Moore's life - the love of melody - soon manifested itself to his own rapturous delight and that of his immediate surroundings.

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