Reminiscences of Oxford . ^ degree, that man mighthave been anything he pleased. His attain-ments and capacities were set off by an unusuallytall and handsome figure. Gratior et pulchro veniens in corpore virtus. His aunt, the Poets wife, told me that ofall the young men she had ever known hewas the most charming in manner, mind, andperson. He was beyond all his contemporariesan adept in Greek and Latin versification;whatever of noble thought, of touching senti-ment, of transient humour, gained access to hismind, came draped in one or other of theclassic tongues. His grief at his wifes deathfo
Reminiscences of Oxford . ^ degree, that man mighthave been anything he pleased. His attain-ments and capacities were set off by an unusuallytall and handsome figure. Gratior et pulchro veniens in corpore virtus. His aunt, the Poets wife, told me that ofall the young men she had ever known hewas the most charming in manner, mind, andperson. He was beyond all his contemporariesan adept in Greek and Latin versification;whatever of noble thought, of touching senti-ment, of transient humour, gained access to hismind, came draped in one or other of theclassic tongues. His grief at his wifes deathfound expression in a perfect Latin couplet,untranslated, untranslatable.^ A junior boywhom he once found eating cake in Meads at Winchester, artlessly offered him a piece, Appendix CHARLES WORDSWORTH. From the Richmond Portrait. UNDERGRADUATES IN THE THIRTIES. 87 which, he accepted, sending to the boy next daya pile of cakes and cream from the confectioner,with the note, SiL,ai, TrXaKoviTUQ , ro^e(Requiting guerdon, cake for cake, receive); and his very inscriptions in hotel books whenon a tonr were Greek Iambics.^ His careeras Master in College at Winchester justified thepromise of his youth: he raised the scholar-ship as well as the morality of the boys. HisGreek Grammar was accepted by every schoolin England except Eton, which, preferring togo wrong with Cato, clung to its old inferiormanual; and he imparted to Winchester atone of unaffected, thoughtful piety which longoutlived his rule. At Gladstones entreaty—High Churchmen saw in the reviving EpiscopalChurch of Scotland a happy hunting groundfor English Tractarianism—he undertook theHeadship of Glenalmond College, becoming soonafterwards Bishop of St. Andrews. Throughno fault of his own he f
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