An Old Castle And Other Essays
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He always had a mor- bid dread of dependence of any kind. Nor was he likely to care much for the university. A young man of keener relish for learning, if his pride had been wounded by poverty, might have withdrawn himself from his companions and with haughty moroseness buried himself in his books. Sam- uel Johnson did that, at Oxford, a half century later. But 1 86 AN OLD CASTLE AND OTHER ESSAYS Swift never had the scholar's temper in any high degree.
All through life, he was satisfied only wh...en in the thick of affairs. He prized learning only as a means to practical ends; and the dull routine of the university curriculum seemed to him quite out of relation with life. It was not mastery of books he wanted, but mastery of men ; and at the university mastery of men was quite impossible to an awk- ward sizar. It is probable, indeed, that the early biographers were over ready to pronounce Swift a dunce in the university.
Mr. Forster has fished up from oblivion a leaf out of the college roll, containing the record of Swift's examinations, which shows that he did well in his classics, and not so ill as some of his classmates in his other studies.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
He always had a mor- bid dread of dependence of any kind. Nor was he likely to care much for the university. A young man of keener relish for learning, if his pride had been wounded by poverty, might have withdrawn himself from his companions and with haughty moroseness buried himself in his books. Sam- uel Johnson did that, at Oxford, a half century later. But 1 86 AN OLD CASTLE AND OTHER ESSAYS Swift never had the scholar's temper in any high degree.
All through life, he was satisfied only wh...en in the thick of affairs. He prized learning only as a means to practical ends; and the dull routine of the university curriculum seemed to him quite out of relation with life. It was not mastery of books he wanted, but mastery of men ; and at the university mastery of men was quite impossible to an awk- ward sizar. It is probable, indeed, that the early biographers were over ready to pronounce Swift a dunce in the university.
Mr. Forster has fished up from oblivion a leaf out of the college roll, containing the record of Swift's examinations, which shows that he did well in his classics, and not so ill as some of his classmates in his other studies.
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