Note 154 — Chapter VI · UNDERGRADUATE LIFE AT CAMBRIDGE—OCTOBER 1850 TO JANUARY 1854—Æt. 19-22.

He was the first who spoke to me (about 1865) of the principles of coloured glass, which have since become fashionable; observing that it should be rich in sea-green, and not, “like the banners of the Assyrian, gleaming with purple and gold.” In his critical studies of modern poets he used to note their fondness for particular colours,—e.g., the uses of “white,” “red,” “black,” “ruby,” “emerald,” “sapphire,” in Tennyson and Browning.