Since the beginning of the so-called "tractarian movement" in the Church of England a great deal of valuable liturgical material had been accumulating, and it was discerned that if ever the fruits of the scholarship of such men as Palmer and Neale and Maskell and Bright were to be garnered the harvest-day had arrived.
"A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer"
William Reed Huntington
W. E. Gladstone, M.P. In the same year, 1846, the appointment of Dr. Hampden to the see of Hereford was 'a heavy blow and great discouragement' to the tractarian party; but the correspondence does not throw much light on the subject as far as regards Mr. Hope.
"Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2"
Robert Ornsby
I have no sympathy myself with tractarian opinions, but I cannot under the circumstances think an objection of the kind tenable by a third person, and in truth we all know that if it had not been this objection, it would have been another-there was no escape any way.
"The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)"
Frederic G. Kenyon