Not with so much labour is Ceres said to have sought Proserpine as I am wont day and night to seek for the idea of the beautiful through all the forms and faces of things, and to follow it leading me on as with certain assured traces." We may be sure that he read the classics of all the languages which he understood.

His copies of Euripides, Pindar, Aratus, and Lycophron, are, or have been recently, extant, with marginal notes, proving that he weighed what he read.

A commonplace book contains copious extracts from historians, and he tells Diodati that he has read Greek history to the fall of Constantinople.

He speaks of having occasionally repaired to London for instruction in mathematics and music.

His own programme, promulgated eight years later, but without doubt perfectly appropriate to his Horton period, names before all else--"Devout prayer to the Holy Spirit, that can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and send out His Seraphim with the hallowed fire of His altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.