"His verses were listened to," said _The Oxford and Cambridge Undergraduates' Journal_, "with rapt attention." It was just the sort of thing, half poetry, half rhythmic rhetoric, which was sure to reach the hearts and minds of youth.

His voice, too, was of beautiful tenor quality, and exquisitely used.

When he sat down people crowded to praise him and even men of great distinction in life flattered him with extravagant compliments.
Strange to say he used always to declare that his appearance about the same time as Prince Rupert, at a fancy dress ball, given by Mrs.
George Morrell, at Headington Hill Hall, afforded him a far more gratifying proof of the exceptional position he had won.
"Everyone came round me, Frank, and made me talk.

I hardly danced at all.

I went as Prince Rupert, and I talked as he charged but with more success, for I turned all my foes into friends.