132 FRANCIS ORPEN MORRIS 



sentence : " The next day, in the same wood at 

 Barnwell Wold, near Oundle, Northamptonshire, 

 during my absence in successful search of the 

 'Large Blue,' of which more anon, MivBree most 

 cleverly captured one, by acting on the principle 

 an invaluable one, as I have always found it, long 

 before its enunciation by the late Sir Robert Peel 

 to the students of the University of Glasgow at his 

 installation as Rector, in the best speech, by the 

 way, if I do not make my sentence too long, that 

 he ever made namely, whatever you want to do 

 that is within the bounds of possibility, determine 

 that it shall be done, and you will be sure to 

 succeed." 



I will now revert to the passage just alluded to, in 

 which he describes the unbroken song and soaring 

 of the Sky-Lark. It is a happy and characteristic 

 example of his style, and therefore may not be 

 thought out of place here. The length of the 

 sentence is evidently in this case constructed de- 

 signedly as a kind of faint parallel to the uninter- 

 rupted singing of the bird. He says : " As to the 

 flight of the Lark, it is indeed, like the poet's, a 

 ' lofty ' one, continued upwards higher and higher 

 as the spring advances, and the sun, towards whom 

 he soars, gets higher in the heavens, up and up 

 into the very highest regions of the air, so that 

 the eye is literally oftentimes unable to follow it ; 

 but if you watch long enough, as perhaps this 

 equally long sentence will enable you to do with 

 your mind's eye, you will again perceive the 



