Robert Fergusson

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Unexpectedly, for so mercurial a lad, it is stated by his first biographers that he excelled in Mathematics. It is also known from various authentic sources that he early gained the marked approbation and friendship of Professor William Wilkie of the Natural Philosophy class. One pleasant evidence of this is that this remarkable man — no poet, as The Epigoniad and Fables demonstrate, but of unquestion- able brains and conversational force after the type of Samuel Johnson — employed Fergusson to
... make a fair copy of his Lectures, and was wont to carry him with him at 1 week-ends ' to his hillside farm. The last a noticeable thing to be returned upon.
Of course, in our knowledge of his temperament and sprightly character we expect to hear of tricks and frolics, freaks and fantasies, of riotous animal spirits, gamesome poking i' the ribs of shallow-pated Gravity and pompous Inaninity ; nor are we disappointed. The sorrow and the shame it is that, as with that ghoul, Gabriel Harvey, writing evil of Robert Greene in the teeth of a penitence that might have melted the stoniest heart ; or as Robert Burns had in Robert Heron a mean-spirited avenger of the poet's too realistic portraiture of him in his verse-letter to Dr.


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