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Excerpt from The Life and Writings of Henry Fielding, Esq.
Homas keightley, a son of Thomas Keightley T of Newtoun, County Kildare, Ireland, was born in Dublin, October, 1789, and having received an ordi nary education in the country, he entered Trinity Col lege, Dublin, on the fourth of July, 1803, at the age of thirteen years and nine months. He was intended for the bar, but delicacy of constitution and other causes excluded him from this and the other professions, and he left college without taking a degree.
He came to London in 1824, at the age of thirty-five, as a literary adventurer, and his first exploit was aiding T. Crofton Croker in compiling the Fairy Legends of the South of Ireland. He wrote for various reviews, especially for the Foreign Quarterly. He published Outlines of History, 1829; a History of Rome, 1836; a History of Greece, 1835; a History of England, 1839; Fairy Mythology, revised edition, 1851; The Mythology of Greece and Italy, third edition, 1854; virgil's B aeolics and Georgia's, 1846; History of India, 1847; Satires and Epistles of horace, 1848; Ovid, 1848; Sallust, 1849; a Life of Milton, 1855; the Poems of milton, 1859; etc.
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