Mr. Keble was already known and revered as the author of the Christian Year, and was Professor of Poetry at Oxford, when he came to Hursley; having married, on the 10th of October 1835, Charlotte Clarke, the most perfect of helpmeets to pastor or to poet, save only in the frailness of her health.
"John Keble's Parishes"
Charlotte M Yonge
My fleshly frailness made me do deadly wrong, And clean to forget thy laws of righteousness.
"A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume I."
R. Dodsley
Yet though the essence of her bodily being was, as I knew, so frail, there was no show of frailness in her gracious presence.
"The God of Love"
Justin Huntly McCarthy