"Velitation" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a mighty and unexpected rival was advancing on the stage—a rival not in poetical powers only, but in that art of attracting popularity, in which the present writer had hitherto preceded better men than himself. The reader will easily see that Byron is here meant, who, after a little velitation of no great promise, now appeared as a serious candidate, in the first two cantos ...
— The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals, Volume 2. • Lord Byron |
