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He is the only poet of his clay who strove to emulate the great masters of epic song, and to give his works external symmetry of plan. He alone attempted to give poetry internal union, by making it the representation of one leading idea; a loftier theory of poetic art than that which ruled the irregular outbursts of Scott and Byron. But the aspiration was above the competency of the aspirer.
They said you were engaged to him." "It is long since the common destiny has ended all Talbot's engagements." "Dead, is he? Well, a new aspirer, I suppose, has succeeded, and he is the bone of contention. Who's he?" I could not bear that a subject of such deep concern to me should be discussed thus lightly, and therefore begged him to change the subject. "Change the subject?
He had seen enough of authors, and of the thorns that beset the paths of literature, to experience none of those delusions which cheat the blinded aspirer into the wilderness of publication that mode of obtaining fame and hatred to which those who feel unfitted for more bustling concerns are impelled. But the vision with him was only evoked one hour to be destroyed the next.
There was an anxious and expectant expression on the face of the student, and from time to time he glanced to the clock, and muttered to himself. Was it a letter from some adored mistress the soothing flattery from some mighty arbiter of arts and letters that the young man eagerly awaited? No; the aspirer was forgotten in the valetudinarian.
"Chill penury" will sometimes "repress the noblest rage," that almost ever animated a human spirit: and our wisest course will probably be, secretly to favour, even when we seem most to oppose, the genuine bent of the youthful aspirer. But the thing of greatest importance is, that we should not teach him to estimate his powers at too low a rate.
Certain it is that his son was left rich in purse and brain, which are good foundations, and fuel to ambition; and, it may be supposed, he was on all occasions well heard of the King as a person of mark and compassion in his eye, but I find not that he did put up for advancement during Henry VIII.'s time, although a vast aspirer and a provident stayer.
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