Hurrell Froude: Memoranda and CommentsGuiney, Louise Imogen
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Hurrell Froude: Memoranda and Comments
Guiney, Louise Imogen
Froude, Richard Hurrell, 1803-1836
and it would be covetous indeed, it might be even impious, to wish to
dislodge him. Such as he is, and where he is, he stands pledge enough
for Reunion. Meanwhile, let him enjoy the irony for what it is worth,
that to compensate for many of his own who esteem him not, many
‘swallowers of the Council of Trent as a whole’ esteem him well. The
English Oratory has for him a sort of veneration, as for a little
brother lost who had Saint Philip’s very brow and mouth;[293] the
Benedictine monks at Buckfast Abbey, near his old home, familiarly
remember him, on birthdays, with prayer which is both a gift and a
petition; and there are lay hearts which cannot think of his lonely
burial-place, in snow-time or in rose-time, without the sense of
hearing over it a solemn music from the _Purgatorio_:
‘_Qui sarai tu poco tempo silvano;
E sarai meco senza fine cive
Di quella Roma onde Cristo è Romano._’
That wonderful prophetic strain, meant for eternity, must linger in
the ear of every ‘Roman’ who has learned to love Hurrell Froude.
THE END.
[1] The present Editor once hit upon a copy of the _Remains_
in a bookstall, which had many of these names filled out in
pencil; several of them, not all, proved to be accurate, and
have been incorporated without acknowledgment to a nameless
and deceased annotator.
[2] ‘What is Mysticism?’ in _The Faith of the Millions_.
First Series. By George Tyrrell, S.J. Longmans, 1901, pp.
254-255.
[3] _Un Grand Feudataire, Renaud de Dammartin de la
Coalition de Bouvines._ Par H. Malo. Paris: Champion, 1898.
[4] _Reminiscences chiefly of Oriel College and the Oxford
Movement_, by the Rev. T. Mozley, M.A. London: Longmans,
Green & Co., 1882, ii., 42-43.
[5] See p. 75. The incident was recognised by the Rev. T.
Mozley when he again saw the sketch, in 1891, as having
taken place in the Common Room, not in ‘Newman’s rooms.’
[6] _A Study of British Genius_, by Havelock Ellis. London;
Hurst & Blackett, 1904, p. 53. The passages cited first
appeared in _The Monthly Review_, during 1901.
[7] This, and much of the condensed genealogical information
following, is from a paper on the Froudes or Frowdes of
Devon in the _Reports and Transactions of the Devonshire
Association_, 1892, written by the Rev. R. E. Hooppell,
M.A., LL.D., D.C.L.
[8] Always so spelled, in this family.
[9] Archdeacon Froude, sixty years Rector of his parish,
died Feb. 23, 1859. See _Gentleman’s Magazine_ for that
year, i., 437, and _Boase’s Modern English Biography_, i.,
1110.
[10] W. Brockedon, F.R.S., F.R.G.S. (b. 1787, d. 1854), was
a watchmaker and inventor at Totnes. In 1809 he was enabled
by Archdeacon Froude and Mr. Holdsworth, M.P. for
Dartmouth, to go up to London to study at the Royal Academy
till 1815, when he went abroad and started upon his career.
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