New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-29

himself, who, after an evening OK inceSsdni
jokes, sent to his young acquaintance the next
day a distressed letter mentioning his clerical
character prudence. gravity. discretion" and 50
on HE is subject to GIBBS well as flows Of
spirits" writes Ward when the tide is out
he takes gloomy view of things, reproaches
himself for the extravagancies of his own con-
versation, and seeks comfort by laying the
blame upon somebody else" Ward seldom re-
fers to anybody anything American, but
there is a sentence about the visiting Red Rover
-Fenimore Cooper to wit-whO seems to be a
very clever. coarse Yankee. who repays with be-
coming scorn the attentions that are heaped
upon him by vanity and curiosity"
/ Samuel Rogers often appears in the letters.
sometimes the centre Of a humorous anec-
dote Young Ward found that in his manners
/ the poet was like his works. polished and
finished to the most marvellous perfection
perhaps he is little affected. but the whole
he appears very amiable man" Ward, who
is remembered as having made some rather
harsh jokes on Rogers's exceedingly cadaverous
countenance. repeats with glee remark Of
Lady Oxfords four year-Old boy. Returning
from a calling expedition with his mother. he
was asked where mamma had taken him 10
see the pretty prettes" he fisped and great was
| the bystanders' amusement on discovering that
| the ''pretties" Samuel Rogers and the even
more unprepossessing Monk Lewis As for
| ROgerSS
| him too cautious:
| He sets about writing with that extreme anxiety
which chills all his faculties and prevents him
from equaIing himself Poor little man! Wi sa
| oIsy of Scott and Campbell and Southey and Lord
II with nb3 afieS R s 70 Rh sns him
from publishing. he leads sad life Of . As 70
| to the peer. it would be all very well II 1t were
natghf remark T. and If he were not fonder Of
| lords and ladies than Walter Scott himself No
uIated by the statute Of Henry VII (hxing the
grndge to Lord Douglas Gthe Marquis Of Douglas
I beg pardon) for beginning letter to him -a!y
which he recounted to me this outrage upon ms
| the paralytic commissions of his head
An anecdote of Rogers and Byron which
to Ward iudicrousy characteristic of both men
arose from a question put to Byron concerning
his hatred for his brother bard Why" said he.
AZ took dislike to him first from the circum-
| stance which occurred at the very beginning of
our acquaintance We invited to the same
place in the country proposed to convey him.
To make the conveyance more agreeable to him
| L put on four horses Soon after our return
heard of his going to BroOks's and saying. I
| wish Lord B. had some friend to advise him to
proportion his expenses little better and to
burn wax candles and content himself when he
travels with a pair" Ward. repeating this tale.
says that he is sure it must be authentic
| L
| candles but it just his style. and L do re-
| member a dinner to which he invited me At the
| hotel where he living. The dinner was nor
rbIy too big and horribly too bad-aH IN the way
OF talloy candles and four horses. and IniXIGT
of expense and sIabbiHeSS- He knew nothing OF
| him who were brutes and cheated him. l did nat
cut any jokes at Brooks's upon his diHner our
gave him a hint in private so ne made no lam
poems upon me
There was a genuine friendship between "ard
and Byron and Ivy's correspondent reproacheS
! her for not admiring the poet half enough
| Fierce as he appears when provoked" writes
| Ward Il have always found him tractabIe.
| poIte person in the ordinary intercourse of
life" They first met by accident in Portugal.
| where Ward had not been half an hour in the
| others company before perceiving that he was a
! Young man-'Iame of both feet. but his figure
and face are good'-surrounded at Lady BesS-
| borough's by mob of distinguished and obse-
! ouious personages. The poet, are assured.
| does not seem to take these glores as kindly
| as Walter Scott does" There is a curious ac-
| count in a letter dated two years before, OF 4
| visit paid by Ward TO Lady Caroline Lamb.
when the beautiful young woman burst out Graz
| for the young bIackguard" Sir Godfrey Web
| ster At the period OF the Bessborough supper
| she mad forgotten that youth and Byron was
| enthroned lin her erratic heart ANT this
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