Page:Literary Landmarks of Oxford.djvu/77

53 records; and Magdalen has every reason to claim him exclusively for its own.

Robert Burton, the Anatomist of Melancholy, was a Commoner of Brazenose in 1590; but he migrated to Christ Church a little later, and he is more fully identified with that College.

A contemporary of Burton at Brazenose was John Marston, Dramatist and Divine. He entered with Burton, according to the latest authorities, who believe that the John Marston or Marson whom Wood placed in Corpus Christi was another man of the same, or a similar, name.

It is pleasant to dwell, in Brazenose, over a certain breakfast in the rooms of Reginald Heber on "Staircase Six, One Pair Left," when the occupant read to Walter Scott, in 1803, from the manuscript, his Newdigate Prize Poem on "Palestine;" and, at Scott's suggestion that Solomon's Temple was builded without tools, added, as an impromptu, the lines:

"No workman's steel, no pondrous axes rung, Like some tall palm the noiseless fabric sprung." Lockhart tells the tale; and Oxford contains no Literary Landmark more interesting to the lovers of either poet.

This apartment is comparatively unchanged, except in the matter of electric lights. The sitting-