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Bishop Heber, poet and chief missionary to the East
Bishop Heber poet and chief missionary to the East Author:George Smith Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: " I send you a sketch of a building which I passed coming from the north, which will interest you as much as it did me; I could almost have pulled off my hat as ... more »we drove by. It is Sir Isaac Newton's house as it appears from the north road. Though I have heard it taken notice of, I never saw any print or drawing of it." The art was a pleasure to himself, and a delight to his correspondents during his travels in Russia and in India. The water-colour sketches which accompanied not a few of his letters, illustrating his pen-and-ink descriptions, were greatly prized. His keen power and habit of observation were shown in his attention to natural history, and his open-air studies of insects, birds, and beasts. When the youth went to Oxford in his eighteenth year he personally knew no one in the University. But he was known to several. Brasenose College, in which he was entered in November 1800, was emphatically the college of Cheshire men. His brother Richard was a Fellow, and hastened home from a book-hunting tour on the Continent to introduce him. His father had been a Fellow, and both parents went up with him. The Bishop of Chester, Dr. William Cleaver, was Principal of the College, and the senior Proctor and several of the Fellows were known to him. Mr. Hugh Cholmondeley, who became Dean of Chester, took him by the hand until his brother's arrival. The Rev. T. S. Smyth, afterwards Rector of St. Austell, Cornwall, became his tutor. After temporary accommodation in what he called a " garret," he secured the rooms ever since identified with his name in No. 7, on the right-hand corner after entering the quadrangle, one stair up. The windows overlook Brasenose Lane and the famous chestnut-tree in the garden of Exeter College. The chapel and hall are in the same condition as then; th...« less