[14] Castle Richmond, p. 5, line 12.
[15] This was natural enough. Prinsep himself had been a sort of political Ulysses, having contested unsuccessfully several constituencies, till he secured his return for Harwich, only, upon petition, to be unseated.
[16] To see at his best Dickens on Thackeray, one should turn to Messrs. Chatto and Windus’s Speeches of Charles Dickens, and under the date March 29, 1858, read the just and generous eulogy bestowed by the author of David Copperfield on him who wrote Vanity Fair.
[17] Trollope’s Thackeray (English Men of Letters Series), p. 49.
[18] See Masters of English Journalism (T. Fisher Unwin), p. 244, &c. The account here referred to was that given the writer by the founder and first editor of the The Pall Mall, F. Greenwood.
[19] “Our years keep taking toll as they roll on” (Conington’s translation, Horace’s Epistles, Bk. II., ii. 5).
[20] Reprinted by Chapman and Hall (1865-6).
[21] Messrs. Bradbury and Evans were the well-known printers with whom Dickens had so much to do.
[22] Conington’s rendering for the grata protervitas of Horace, Ode i, 19, 7, more compactly, and perhaps not less faithfully translatable by “sweet sauciness.”
[23] Tennyson, Lady Clara Vere de Vere.