Letters On the Character And Poetical Genius of Lord Byron
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! The truth is, that there was implanted in him that strong love of distinction^ which is given us for the wisest purposes, as a spur to noble exertions and a career of useful glory ! But this fire does not always find vent in its proper direc- tion ; accidents sometimes impede it ; blights, chills, obstructions, turn it aside ; it is then almost sure, if it be strong, to break out in excrescences, funguses, dis- eases ! Lord Byron had been oppressed and disappointed at school : he came to coll...ege with a wounded pride, and his manners, and (as I believe) the mortifica- tion of a fortune inadequate to his rank, exposed him to a reception there which GENIUS OF LORD BYllON. ^QS dwelt upon his haughty and meditative spirit, soured a temper naturally fierce, and drove his active feelings into extra- vagances in mere despair. This might be regretted ; but there was nothing un- natural in it, nothing radically bad, no- thing irredeemable, nothing unlike what has happened to thousands who have turned out virtuous and excellent mem- bers of societv.
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