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EXHIBITED IN LETTERS AND MEMOIRS COLLECTED BY THE LATE J . J . PIDCOCK RAIKES , ESQ . ; AND NOW FIRST PUBLISHED BY HIS NEPHEW , SIR RODNEY RAIKES , WITH SEVERAL MATERIAL ADDITIONS . C /
PREFATORY MEMOIR .
That the Editor of these pages is professionally no literary man , would be evident of itself . A publisher , in fact , was desirous of printing them in quarto , with a great accumulation o > f other matter , prefixing a brief account of the author ' s
life . Although the scheme was laid aside , the reader shall not be deprived of what information a grateful nephew can present to him , in regard to that worthy man .
James Jeffery Pidcock Raikes , ( or Raykes , for sometimes the name has been spelt with the i and sometimes with they ) , Esq ., of Cranburn alley , was the eldest son of Benjamin
Tobias Raikes , Esq ., of- the same residence , who married the daughter and sole heiress of Samuel Gamaliel Rodney Pidcock , Esq ., of True-Blue House , on the north-east coast of Newfoundland . In the
conscientious * discharge of his professional duties he often reflected that perhaps a Wolfe or an Abercrombie had become immortal by merely having looked into his father ' s window ; and that the fine arts had been
aided in rising to their present stupendous height by the encouragement he rave to the
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more eminent painters of trumpets , drums , cannons , cars of victory , and triumphal arches , destined to reward at Christmas , and upon other solemn occasions , the younger portions
of human society . He used to defend the dignity of his artists by demonstrating , to every unprejudiced and unsophisticated mind , their superiority over Rubens and Raphael , and one whom he would not name
out of delicacy , inasmuch as a drum or trumpet , to say nothing of a car of victory or a triumphal arch , is a nobler basis of glory than a yard , or even a bale of canvas , and that there resulted from either of them a
greater , a more genuine , and a far more extensive delight . ¦ The juvenile age of Mr Piddock Raikes was distinguished by no eccentricities of genius ; his themes were by the best judges declared to be superior to his verses . Indeed , when
he was of age and thought of settling , he suspected from his natural modesty , that the affections of a distinguished lady in
Lombard street ( no other than the daughter of the great Mr # # # *) were gained by a rival . through the means of some more felicitous expression
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 1, 1837, page 89, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1834/page/17/
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