to a very great extent, only I don't see what business he has to parade his calmness, and lecture us on resignation, when he has never known what a storm is, and doesn't know what to resign himself to.

I think he only knows the shady side of nature out of books.

Still I think his versifying, and generally his aesthetic power is quite wonderful ....

On the whole he shapes better than you, I think, but you have marble to cut out, and he has only clay ....

Do you think that if the Council do ask me to give up I might fairly ask Lord Brougham as their President to get me helped instead to ever so poor an honest living in the Colonies?
I can't turn hack writer, and I must have something fixed to do.