Down to darkness, down to Hell!
Hark the bell! Farewell! farewell!
Rev. RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM.
Born, December 6, 1788. | Died, June 17, 1845.
The author of the “Ingoldsby Legends” was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, he entered the Church, and eventually became a Canon of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London. He wrote for John Bull, Blackwood, Bentley’s Miscellany, and was, for a time, editor of the London Chronicle.
Bentley’s Miscellany was established in 1837, and in it appeared the famous “Ingoldsby Legends,” a collection of poems unique for their fun and originality.
Popular phrases, the most prosaic sentences, the cramped technicalities of legal diction, and snatches of various languages are worked in with an apparent absence of all art or effort; not a word seems out of place, not an expression forced, whilst syllables the most intractable find the only partners fitted for them throughout the range of our language. These Legends have often been imitated, but never equalled.
MISADVENTURES AT MARGATE.