profligate sinner

, in short, a "

young Moore

,"

[2]

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, ...