. John de Wycliffe : a monograph, with some account of the Wycliffe mss. in Oxford, Cambridge, the British museum, Lambeth palace, and Trinity college, Dublin . here he receivedhis juvenile instruction ; in what manner he acquittedhimself among his fellows in his earlier years—all theseare matters about which the imagination may create itspictures, but of which we can really knoiu nothing. He mayhave done his best to follow the swiftest in the chase amongthose hills and glens which still encompass the site ofthe old home of his fathers ; he may have plunged, in thesummer season, into the water
. John de Wycliffe : a monograph, with some account of the Wycliffe mss. in Oxford, Cambridge, the British museum, Lambeth palace, and Trinity college, Dublin . here he receivedhis juvenile instruction ; in what manner he acquittedhimself among his fellows in his earlier years—all theseare matters about which the imagination may create itspictures, but of which we can really knoiu nothing. He mayhave done his best to follow the swiftest in the chase amongthose hills and glens which still encompass the site ofthe old home of his fathers ; he may have plunged, in thesummer season, into the waters which flowed then, asthey flow now, beneath the outlook from his birth-place ;or in a more thoughtful mood, he may have rambledunder the shadow of the lofty elms which spread them-selves eastward from the mansion, far along the hill-top,and may have listened there, as we have ourselves listened,to the chorus of the waters beneath, and the rooks above ;and may have given freedom there, not unprofitably, to hisyoung and budding thought upon the ways of men. Toourselves, it was not unpleasant to believe for the momentin such probable or possible ? ^s Northam Tower. Means of Education in the ~i4:th Gentit^ry. 13 The next manor to that of the Wycliffes, was themanor of the Rokebys —the region to which the geniusof poetry has given such chivalrous celebrity in our time.^That domain of modern romance is bounded by theGreta and the Tees, the rivers verging towards eachother, as from the points of an angle, until they meet atthe foot of the slope on which stands the famous MorthamTower, and where the two streams become one, amidstscenery that would seem to have put on its best braveryto do honour to their nuptials. , In that tower, as in the WyclifF church, we see one ofthose home-objects that were familar to the eye of youngWycliffe, and which amidst the labours and cares of hisafter-life, no doubt, had often come back to the eye ofhis imagination, bringing w
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