13/14 The life of literature and the life of the Bar hardly ever suit, and in Scott's case they suited the less, that he felt himself likely to be a dictator in the one field, and only a postulant in the other. Literature was a far greater gainer by his choice, than Law could have been a loser. For his capacity for the law he shared with thousands of able men, his capacity for literature with few or none. 269-71.] [Footnote 6: Lockhart's _Life of Scott_, i. 206.] [Footnote 7: Lockhart's _Life of Scott_, ix. |