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In February 1831 he writes to Whewell: "I am impatient for Praed's debut. The House of Commons is a place in which I would not promise success to any man. I have great doubts even about Jeffrey. It is the most peculiar audience in the world.
In the last year of William E. Gladstone's stay at Eton, in 1827, and seven years after Praed's venture, he was largely instrumental in launching the Eton Miscellany, professedly edited by Bartholomew Bouverie, and Mr. Gladstone became a most frequent, voluminous and valuable contributor to its pages.
"But give me something of Praed's in return," he said, rallying suddenly; "is there not a pretty little thing called 'How shall I woo her?" glancing archly and somewhat impertinently at me, I thought or, perhaps, what would simply have amused me in another man and mood shocked me in him, the recent widower widowed, too, under such peculiar and awful circumstances!
I've come home a very different David to the one that left you what was it? Five six years ago? to go to Mr. Praed's studio. I've learnt a lot in the interval. But I'm so sick of the past, I don't want to talk about it more than I can help, and I've been in very queer health since I got ill and wounded in South Africa.
Going to the C. and C. Bank, Temple Bar branch, to take stock of Vivie's affairs, he found a Thousand pounds had been paid in to her current account. Ascertaining the name of the payee to be L.M. Praed, he hurried off at the first opportunity to Praed's studio.
She will laugh, and talk and lie, and tell you everything except what you want to know. What strength is to a man, cunning is to a woman. They are the potters, we are the clay, and and and my discourse is as discursive as that of Praed's vicar, finished the doctor, with a dry chuckle. 'It has led us a long way from the main point, agreed Harry, 'and that is what is Dr Pendle's secret?
Praed's own tale The Bond of Wedlock, with all its undoubted cleverness, its realism and dramatic strength, fails in its due impression as a picture of latter-day English morals because it is too sordid, too completely devoid of any of the better qualities of humanity. To see Mrs.
At Eton under Keate, as all readers of "Eothen" know he was contemporary with Gladstone, Sir F. Hanmer, Lords Canning and Dalhousie, Selwyn, Shadwell. He wrote in the "Etonian," created and edited by Mackworth Praed; and is mentioned in Praed's poem on Surly Hall as "Kinglake, dear to poetry, And dear to all his friends." Dr.
My grandmother was probably I can only deal with probabilities and possibilities in this undocumented past a Welsh woman of Cardiff, and I should not be surprised if I were a sort of cousin of the man I am personating. "He was the ne'er-do-weel, only son of a Welsh vicar, a pupil of Praed's, who went out to South Africa and died or was killed in the war. "You have met my adopted father.
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.
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