[352] Cwmcynfelin, near Aberystwith, Cardiganshire.
[353] The Rev. Thomas Keble, Vicar. Bisley in Gloucestershire should be memorable as the place where daily Anglican services were first revived, 1827.
[354] The Rev. James Davis, Vicar. Mr. Williams had been his Curate there.
[355] In Isaac Williams’s extremely beautiful Πόθος (in Thoughts in Past Years) he again says of Newman:
‘A soul that needed nothing but repose …
But urged by something that repose to flee,
* * * * *
Insatiate made from mere satiety.’
[356] In 1833, on Froude’s return from Italy.
[357] [I find that John Keble and others quite agree with me that there was that in Hurrell Froude that he could not have joined the Church of Rome.] There is a somewhat corroborative passage in A Short Sketch of the Tractarian Upheaval, by Thomas Leach, B.A. London: Bemrose & Sons, 1887. ‘It is possible, of course, as Dr. Newman would seem to imply, that Froude would have gone over side by side, or rather in advance of, his fellow-leader: for Froude was one to be in advance generally of those with whom he journeyed. On the other hand, we must give due weight to the fact that Froude, as Dr. Newman himself tells us, was “an Englishman to the backbone in his severe adherence to the real and the concrete.”’ The inference, pleasing to some minds, is that ‘Rome’ is a mere chimera.