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Then, from within the romantic movement itself, a critic might exhume verse indicating that faith in the beautiful singer was by no means universal; that, on the other hand, the interestingly ugly bard enjoyed considerable vogue. He would find, for example, Moore's Lines on a Squinting Poetess, and Praed's The Talented Man. In the latter verses the speaker says of her literary fancy,
Grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him, nor below Can love, or sorrow, fame, ambition, strife, Cut to his heart again with the keen knife Of silent, sharp endurance. The very imitative hero of Praed's The Troubadour, after disappointment in several successive amours, at the age of twenty-six dismisses passion forever.
So too as there is nothing in Praed of the popular indignation generous and fine but a little theatrical which endears Hood to the general in The Bridge of Sighs and The Song of the Shirt, so there is nothing in Hood of the sound political sense, underlying apparent banter, of Praed's Speaker Asleep and other things.
"How beautiful the lines are!" said Min; "but it seems a pity that they should be thrown away on a mere charade." "That was exactly Praed's way," said the vicar. "I remember well, when I was a young man at college, what a stir his name made, and what great things were predicted of him, that he never lived to realise." "He died young, did he not?" asked Min.
It has been frequently stated in the English journals that such a collection was to be published, under the direction of Praed's widow, but we have yet only the volume prepared by a lover of the poet some years ago for the Langleys, in this city. In the "Memoirs of Eminent Etonians," just printed by Mr. Edward Creasy, we have several waifs of Praed's that we believe will be new to all our readers.
Macaulay's outward man was never better described than in two sentences of Praed's Introduction to Knight's Quarterly Magazine. I did not know him by sight, and, when he came into the room with two or three other guests, I supposed that he was announced as General I forget what. This picture, in which every touch is correct, tells all that there is to be told.
But where the two poets come together, on a ground which they have almost to themselves, is in a certain kind of humorous poetry ranging from the terrific-grotesque, as in Hood's Miss Kilmansegg and Praed's Red Fisherman, to the simple, humorously tender study of characters, as in a hundred things of Hood's and in not a few of Praed's with The Vicar at their head.
Shelley was then a great favorite of his, and I remember that Praed's verses then appearing in the 'New Monthly' he thought very clever and brilliant, and was fond of repeating them.
Warren; even Professor Rossiter, who also went to see Vivie's mother at Praed's, and conceived a whimsical liking for the unrepentant, outspoken old lady. Vivie's health gradually recovered from the effects of the forcible feeding; the prison fare, supplemented by the weekly parcels, suited her digestion; the peace of the prison life and the regular work at interesting trades soothed her nerves.
To whom but the Good Old King? There is an allusion to it in a squib of Praed's, very finished and elegant, and beyond all doubt contemporary. Praed, on the other hand, would allow his late monarch neither public merits nor private virtues. "A good man!
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