Tragedy.
"A wicked hag, and envy's self excelling In mischiefe, for herself she only vext, But this same, both herself and others eke perplext." ...............
"Who then can strive with strong necessity, That holds the world in his still changing state, .................
Then do no further go, no further stray, But here lie down, and to thy rest betake." -- Spenser.
Few men perhaps could boast of so masculine and firm a mind, as, despite his eccentricities, Aram assuredly possessed.

His habits of solitude had strengthened its natural hardihood; for, accustomed to make all the sources of happiness flow solely from himself, his thoughts the only companion--his genius the only vivifier--of his retreat; the tone and faculty of his spirit could not but assume that austere and vigorous energy which the habit of self-dependence almost invariably produces; and yet, the reader, if he be young, will scarcely feel surprise that the resolution of the Student, to battle against incipient love, from whatever reasons it might be formed, gradually and reluctantly melted away.

It may be noted, that the enthusiasts of learning and reverie have, at one time or another in their lives, been, of all the tribes of men, the most keenly susceptible to love; their solitude feeds their passion; and deprived, as they usually are, of the more hurried and vehement occupations of life, when love is once admitted to their hearts, there is no counter-check to its emotions, and no escape from its excitation.

Aram, too, had just arrived at that age when a man usually feels a sort of revulsion in the current of his desires.

At that age, those who have hitherto pursued love, begin to grow alive to ambition; those who have been slaves to the pleasures of life, awaken from the dream, and direct their desire to its interests.