And well I know there are cold men who deem
This saintly Cause a weak knight-errant’s dream.
When thou hast marked him well, thine eye will trace
Lines deep and steadfast; features grave and bold;
Beauty austere and masculine; a face
And stalwart form wrought in the antique mould;
And if some shades too broad and coarse are thrown,
’Tis where the Age hath marred the block of stone.’
From ‘The Evangelical Succession,’ in ‘Essays in Ecclesiastical Biography,’ by the Right Honourable Sir James Stephen, K.C.B. London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1849.[313]