But altogether the elegance and composure of style are such as one would not have expected from this vehement and ill-fated young man.

He had a stronger desire for literary fame burning in his heart, than even that which occasionally flashed up in his sisters'.

He tried various outlets for his talents.

He wrote and sent poems to Wordsworth and Coleridge, who both expressed kind and laudatory opinions, and he frequently contributed verses to the _Leeds Mercury_.

In 1840, he was living at home, employing himself in occasional composition of various kinds, and waiting till some occupation, for which he might be fitted without any expensive course of preliminary training, should turn up; waiting, not impatiently; for he saw society of one kind (probably what he called "life") at the Black Bull; and at home he was as yet the cherished favourite.
Miss Branwell was unaware of the fermentation of unoccupied talent going on around her.