পাতা:মাইকেল মধুসূদন দত্তের জীবন-চরিত - যোগীন্দ্রনাথ বসু.pdf/২১২

SV জীবন-চরিত । Tell master Bysack to send a copy of the 'Captive” to Ram Chundra Mittra. and another to Mr. Bethune, - if he thinks it proper, and let him write to him and send me his reply, provided he sends any. M. D. 凶夺甘而阿列西 1 হরকবাব সমালোচনা সম্বন্ধে । MADRAS, 5th June, 1849. My DEAR GOUR, I find that your 'Hurkara' has been somewhat sewere with me. Curse the rascal; his article reached me like a shaft which has spent its force in its progress. Know, O thou noble youth, that I have girt my loins to do battle mainfully, even as a gallant knight, who seeks the loftiest guerdon on this earth-the Poet's crown of laurel-leaf Methinks, that after the praise, I have received from some whose claims to bestow them are indubitable, I can afford to stand a little abuse. I am anxious to know how my friends like the book. I will not do them the injustice to suppose that the critique of the 'Hurkara" has, in any way, prejudiced them against me. It is an unpleasant thing, Deat Gour, to have any thing to do with the “many-headed”, especially, in the way of literature. Remember that no man is willing to allow the palm of superiority to another, unless actually forced to do so. Anything like an acknow