Crossword-Solution: PRAED 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Humbly and afar I follow in the footsteps of Praed and Lampson, of Field and Riley, hoping that in time my Muse may bring me bread and butter.

The lightest of light things, the poet of society, should possess more varied strains; like Horace, Martial, Thackeray, not like Ovid and (here is a heresy) Praed.

Inimitably well as Praed does his trick of antithesis, I still feel that it _is_ a trick, and that most rhymers could follow him in a mere mechanic art.

Where is the old man laid? Look down, And construe on the slab before you: "Hic jacet Gulielmus Brown, Vir nulla non donandus lauru." Winthrop Mackworth Praed [1802-1839] THE BELLE OF THE BALL-ROOM Years, years ago, ere yet my dreams Had been of being wise or witty; Ere I had done with writing themes, Or yawned o'er this infernal Chitty;-- Years, years ago, while all my joy Were in my fowling-piece and filly; In short, while I was yet a boy, I fell in love with Laura Lilly.

Winthrop Mackworth Praed [1802-1839] THE FINE OLD ENGLISH GENTLEMAN I'll sing you a good old song, Made by a good old pate, Of a fine old English gentleman Who had an old estate, And who kept up his old mansion At a bountiful old rate; With a good old porter to relieve The old poor at his gate, Like a fine old English gentleman All of the olden time.