New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-12-07
LITERARY ASPIRATION.
Try UEsRY GILES.

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necay dark in tie streets of Brooklyn Tor except IN IN,
treets leading directly to the Ferries not hghted lamp
,xss 10 he seen Notwithstanding this, however COR
Siderable audience assembled at the Brooklyn Institute
listen to Mr. CHESS lecture in continuation OF ~,
course the subject chosen being Literary Aspiration
After some Introductory ard humorous remarks IN waca
lie trred to the prevalence Of young authors IN 's
country ihe lecturer spoke to the following effect .
LITERARY aspiration is generous impulse, Da' u
does rot necessarily inclRde literary ability Eye1
ability does not always attain success, and the loiest
literary Is in itself guarantee for happiness No
feeling is more natural 10 cultivated youth tan ma, OF
literary sspiration He reads with enthusiasm, and the
autLos heekes into bis sympaihes he glorhes worsn
and longs be they were According to Ms DAY aaa
bis gifts he desires 10 gain place in the hsne estimates
of II is low and gross estimate Of your, 20 A rs
distinction In the The thoroughly developer yeuih
is not sensus but ideal and hopeful The general lie OF
youth not positive but in the conceivable ana Tor al ais
udefped sensitive activity the ordinary world has no
sphere-no vocabulary. lie has need OF higher world
than the practical and this he discovers in literature II
IT, therefore, in the ordinary experience oil !oss ~
pose essays, romsnces and poems ana not 70 coos'
Them only but also to think them worthy OF nu6icst9n
The eve of young writer cannot see that what burned ~
brain may be cold on paper that what s"eiied ms
heart almost 10 breaking may be 20 the ridiculous
than TO the pathetic He thinks he has only to utter VII
he thinks and feels in order 10 affect the minds of others
bis has been affected He has not learned yet tn 1t a
cuace is still creation As age and experience come on,
however the radcalsn of youth declines and every ten
years after forty, we would roll history oacS n
Asrirations give place to just appreciation o. tue
world as it IT, and in well cultivated minds the desire Tor
fame and the love Of glory gives place to the more humble
and less selfish desires Of the phanthr0pist ana mo
Christian II as many could write successfully as aspire TO
there would be distinction for and authorship Woul
DESTROY itself Strength faby does not always correspond
TO strench Of desire II is not IN literature in virtue the
POWER does not come by wishing for Il such power does
not even come by exoTtng for il. No diligence viii ac
que that speciality Of soul which Is necessary TO the ora
tor or the poet He who distinguishes himself mast be
largely gifted The measure of force ia not Whist man
can acquire but what given to him He may improve,
it true he may pervert the faculties Tih when no Is
endowed but he has them Independent OF his own ageney
they are from 10 merit OF his own. To comprehend the
proportions of colossal mind need the experience ct
q thousand years. They not manifest when they
develop themselves thought when seen in act and IN
gre achievements but they none the less certain IN
their effect upon the world The English speech Is rich
in the grand and varied emanai0ns of the choicest minds
Ever since became civilized tongue has had in every
style Of lis growth such minds to use H. When yet but
young it had the genial ChaUcer rejoicing in all the wo
Of usture living worship and while was still 1g in
the times ofEzabeth and James, avdt musical jubilee of
song ont Of that great assembly Of tbs poets fhat
reriod of which Shskspere end LORD Bacon formed the
brightest umnaries We have next English speech,
used in the glorious v;gor of the commonwealth Milton
spoke il with solemn greatness. With it he viGdi-
Gated the rights of freedom and il IA this speech
he sang tho hymn which has eternity for its theme,
the weTd for its fame and the universe for is pur
pore. In this language Locke wrote his philosophy,
and all the other English writers, among whom must
forget Goldsmith wrote their varied historical poetica
and fictitious literature The lecturer continued at con
siderable length to show the manifold beauties of the Eag
ih language the power of the press and the popularity
OF the powerful minds In time being willing TO
devote their talents TO The Of the passing hour in
the form of newspaper writing Fame less object
OF ambition than present utility The past and especially
the fiction of the past becoming less and less the OBJ
eot Of regard and the present becoming the all absorb
ing theme.
The lecturer concluded with eloquent peroraton on
the durability of truth Fame consists only of the breath
of man must die, but truth endures with the dara
blity of God