'Tis true.
Marsh loves a controversy; Coates a play; Bennet a felon; Lewis Way a Jew; The Jew the silver spoons of Lewis Way.
The Gipsy Poetry, to own the truth, Has been my love through childhood and in youth." It is perhaps as well that the project to all appearance stopped with the first stanza, which in its turn was probably written for the sake of a single line.

The young man had a better use for his time than to spend it in producing frigid imitations of Beppo.
He was not unpopular among his fellow-pupils, who regarded him with pride and admiration, tempered by the compassion which his utter inability to play at any sort of game would have excited in every school, private or public alike.

He troubled himself very little about the opinion of those by whom he was surrounded at Aspenden.

It required the crowd and the stir of a university to call forth the social qualities which he possessed in so large a measure.

The tone of his correspondence during these years sufficiently indicates that he lived almost exclusively among books.