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| Style | Artless, succinct, moral, and reflective; clear, and often warm with life. |
| Rank | First in the order of time, among English scholars, and first among English historians. The glory of the old English period. The living encyclopedia of his age ... a great man of talent, not a great man of genius ... a translator, a commentator, who, amid the growing anarchy and gross ignorance, digests and compacts, out of dull, voluminous, or almost inaccessible books, what seems good and useful. |
| Character | Gentle, pure, simple-minded, earnest, and devout. Learning but deepened the lustre of his piety. His soul was a sanctuary lighted up with the lamps of angels, and dedicated to the high service of man and his Maker. ... In acquiring and communicating, his industry was marvellous. |
| Influence | He is the first figure to which our English science looks back, and the father of English national education ... Dissensions and confusion, attending the disintegration of the original political system, will bruise this humble plant, and the wars with the Danes will complete the blight of its promise. Yet it will have, silently, insensibly, a numerous and illustrative progeny ... and so, while the fields are wasted by violence, famine, and the plague, the Venerable Bede is as a tree planted by the river's side; his branches shall spread, and his beauty be as the olive, and his smell as Lebanon; and what though he dare not speak, they that dwell under his shadow shall return, - they shall revive as the corn and grow as the vine. |
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