Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . ng gallants, who, headed by the Earl of Rochester—the representative of the tall skeleton—had determinedto realise the Dance of Death, as once depicted on thewalls of an ancient cloister at the north of the cathedral,called Pardon-churchyard, on the walls of which, says Stowe, were artificially and richly painted the Danceof Macabre, or Dance of Death, commonly called theDance of Pauls, the like where
Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . ng gallants, who, headed by the Earl of Rochester—the representative of the tall skeleton—had determinedto realise the Dance of Death, as once depicted on thewalls of an ancient cloister at the north of the cathedral,called Pardon-churchyard, on the walls of which, says Stowe, were artificially and richly painted the Danceof Macabre, or Dance of Death, commonly called theDance of Pauls, the like whereof was painted aboutSaint Innocents at Paris. The metres, or poesy of thisdance, proceeds the same authority, were translated outof French into English by John Lydgate, monk of Bury ;and with the picture of Death leading all estates, paintedabout the cloister, at the special request and expense ofJenkin Carpenter, in the reign of Henry the Sixth. (From Old Saint Paurs.) Wiiithrop Mackworth Praed (1802-39),son of an English serjeant-at-law, and connectedthrough his mother with the Winthrops of NewEngland, was born in London and educated atEton, where he distinguished himself chiefly by. WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED. After ihe Portrait by Mayer. some brilliant experiments in academic Matina, his first venture, was followed in1820 by The Etonian, which was printed byCharles Knight, and ran for ten months. AtTrinity College, Cambridge, which he entered in1821, Praed won the Chancellors medal twicewith poems on Australasia and Athens, andcontrilDuted prose and verse to Knighfs QuarterlyMagazine. The Brazen Head, which reached itsthird number, was another of his ventures in theperiodical line in 1826. At that time he was tutorto a son of Lord Ailesbury. In 1829, havingobtained a college fellowship, he was called to theBar at the Middle Temple, and next year enteredthe House of Commons as member for the rottenborough of St Germans in Cornwall. At Cam-bridge, in the Uni
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