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My brother was a great admirer of the Ingoldsby Legends, and could himself handle Richard Barham's fascinating metre very effectively. He was meditating "A Pseudo-Ingoldsbean Lay," dealing with leading personalities in the then House of Commons.
Some of them were too good-natured, some too ill-natured. The Spectator was exceedingly amusing. By far the best account and criticism of this piece is Mr. Barham's metrical report of it in the "Ingoldsby Legends." Lord Francis himself used to quote with delight, "She didn't mind death, but she couldn't bear pinching." ... GREAT RUSSELL STREET, January 22, 1832.
The watching system might be sufficient to keep an unwilling battle-fleet in port or to bring a more adventurous one to action, but it could not control raiding squadrons. This was certainly Barham's objection.
Lord knows we would make ducks and drakes of the whole party with the Barham's terrible battery! There is a new year like to begin and no news from Britain. By and by I will be in the condition of those who are sick and in prison, and entitled to visits and consolation on principles of Christianity.
It was evidently Mr Barham's opinion that 'his people' were more moral than other people, though very much poorer. 'But the Irish always drink, said Mr Hepworth. 'Not so much as the English, I think, said the priest. 'And you are not to suppose that we are all Irish. Of my flock the greater proportion are English. 'It is astonishing how little we know of our neighbours, said the bishop.
We are going to bring out a play of Lord Francis', translated from the French, a sort of melodrama in blank verse, in which I have to act a part that I cannot do the least in the world, but of course that doesn't signify. Barham's inimitably comical poems in the "Ingoldsby Legends." Mdlle.
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