With a precocity which Mill or Macaulay might have envied, he had read both the Iliad and the Odyssey twice before he was eleven.

The standard of accuracy at Buckfastleigh was not high, and Froude's scholarship was inexact.

What he learnt there was to enjoy Homer, to feel on friendly terms with the Greeks and Trojans, at ease with the everlasting wanderer in the best story-book composed by man.
Anthony's holidays were not altogether happy.

He was made to work instead of amusing himself, and forced into an unwholesome precocity.

Then at eleven he was sent to Westminster.
In 1830 the reputation of Westminster stood high.