profligate sinner
, in short, a "
young Moore
,"
by — — — , your — — friend. I believe, in general, they have been favourably received, and surely the age of their author will preclude
severe
criticism. The adventures of my life from sixteen to nineteen, and the dissipation into which I have been thrown in London, have given a voluptuous tint to my ideas; but the occasions which called forth my muse could hardly admit any other colouring. This volume is
vastly
correct and miraculously chaste. Apropos, talking of love, ...