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She made remarks! 'Thy sufferings are severe but such is woman! said Franko. 'Gad, it's a good idea, though. He took out a note-book and pencilled down a point or two. Raikes watched the process sardonically. 'My tragedy is, then, thy farce! he exclaimed. 'Well, be it so! I believe I shall come to song-writing again myself shortly-beneath the shield of Catnach I'll a nation's ballads frame.
And now the art is wellnigh dead; though you may discover an infrequent survival in a country town. But how should Catnach, were he alive to-day, compete with the Special Edition of an evening print? The decline of the Scoundrel, in fact, has been followed by the disappearance of chap-book and broadside.
He was no pedant Jemmy Catnach; and the image of his ruffians was commonly as far from portraiture, as his verses were remote from poetry. But he put together in a roughly artistic shape the last murder, robbery, or scandal of the day. His masterpieces were far too popular to live, and if they knew so vast a circulation as 2,500,000 they are hard indeed to come by.
Seven Dials! the region of song and poetry—first effusions, and last dying speeches: hallowed by the names of Catnach and of Pitts—names that will entwine themselves with costermongers, and barrel-organs, when penny magazines shall have superseded penny yards of song, and capital punishment be unknown! Look at the construction of the place.
She made remarks! 'Thy sufferings are severe but such is woman! said Franko. 'Gad, it's a good idea, though. He took out a note-book and pencilled down a point or two. Raikes watched the process sardonically. 'My tragedy is, then, thy farce! he exclaimed. 'Well, be it so! I believe I shall come to song-writing again myself shortly-beneath the shield of Catnach I'll a nation's ballads frame.
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