[116] From Belgravia, vol. iii. pp. 328-337. 1867.
[117] The author and Rev. Dr. Jeune, afterwards Bishop of Peterborough, father of Sir Francis Jeune.
“O type of a far scene! the lovely land,
Where youth wins many a friend, and I had one;
Still do thy bulwarks, dear old Oxford, stand?
Yet, Isis, do thy thoughtful waters run?”
The Token Stream of ‘Tidna’ Combe.
(See Appendix [A].)
[119] Compare Tennyson, “In Memoriam”—
“For, ‘ground in yonder social mill
We rub each other’s angles down,
‘And merge,’ he said, ‘in form and gloss,
The picturesque of man and man.’”
[120] Such things have been known to occur even in these degenerate days.