He may do so after experience with something of certainty.

But fancy is a gift which the owner of it cannot measure, and the power of which, when he is using it, he cannot himself understand.
There is the same lambent flame flickering over everything he did, even the dinner-cards and the picture pantomimes.

He did not in the least know what he put into those things.

So it was with his verses.

It was only by degrees, when he was told of it by others, that he found that they too were of infinite value to him in his profession.
The _Irish Sketch Book_ came out in 1843, in which he used, but only half used, the name of Michael Angelo Titmarsh.