"Under that notion, Madam," he wrote, "of an aspirer to a more transcendent Majestie I present your Religious Mind these entertainments: which will be the less unmannerly the greater privacie and retreat they intrude themselves upon; and truly, as your life stands now dispos'd the greater part of your time is favourable for such admissions.
"Henrietta Maria"
Henrietta Haynes
No; the aspirer was forgotten in the valetudinarian.
"Ernest Maltravers, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
He had seen enough of authors, and of the thorns that beset the paths of literature, to experience none of those delusions which cheat the blinded aspirer into the wilderness of publication-that mode of obtaining fame and hatred to which those who feel unfitted for more bustling concerns are impelled.
"Godolphin, Volume 2."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton