criticism: it can, therefore, hardly be expected the effusions of a boy (and most of these pieces have been produced at an early period) can derive much merit either from the subject or composition. Many of them were written under great depression of spirits, and during severe indisposition:— hence the gloomy turn of the ideas. We coincide in opinion that the "
poësies érotiques
" are the most exceptionable; they were, however, grateful to the
deities
, on whose altars they were offered — more I seek not.
portrait of Pomposus
was drawn at Harrow, after a
long sitting