"It is no slight consolation to us, while suffering under alternate reproaches for ill-timed severity, and injudicious praise, to reflect that no very mischievous effects have as yet resulted to the literature of the country, from this imputed misbehaviour on our part. Powerful genius, we are persuaded, will not be repressed even by unjust castigation; nor will the most excessive praise that can be lavished by sincere admiration ever abate the efforts that are fitted to attain to excellence. Our alleged severity upon a youthful production has not prevented the noble author from becoming the first poet of his time."

Edinburgh Review

, vol. xxii. p. 416.

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[Footnote 6:]

Mackintosh wrote

  1. a History of England for Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia (1830);
  2. a History of the Revolution in England (1834).

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[Footnote 7:]

Afterwards fifth, and last, Duke of Gordon. He died in May, 1836.