text:  When we allow therefore the existence of this influence nay more when we endeavour to appreciate and measure the extent of that influence; when we essay to express the degree of _aberration_ (to use the language of the astronomer) produced in the orbit of the great poetic planet of the North by the approach in the literary hemisphere of the yet greater luminary of England--we give the strongest possible denial to a fallacious opinion useless to the glory of one great man and injurious to the just fame of the other viz