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Excerpt from Devereux
My Dear Auldjo,
Permit me, as a memento of the pleasant hours we passed together, and the intimacy we formed, by the winding shores and the rosy seas of the old Parthenope, to dedicate to you this romance. - It was written in, perhaps, the happiest period of my literary life - when success began to brighten upon my labours, and it seemed to me a fine thing to make a name. Reputation, like all possessions, fairer in the hope than the reality, shone before me, in the gloss of novelty - and I had neither felt the envy it excites, the weariness it occasions, nor (worse than all) that coarse and painful notoriety, that something between the gossip and the slander, which attends every man whose writings become known - surrendering the grateful privacies of life to
The gaudy, babbling, and remorseless day.
In short - yet almost a boy - (for, in years at least, I was little more, when "Pelham" and "The Disowned" were conceived and composed, ) and full of the sanguine arrogance of hope, I pictured to myself far greater triumphs than it will ever be mine to achieve: and never did architect of dreams build his pyramid upon (alas!) a narrower base, or a more crumbling soil!
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