A fellow that makes no figure in company, and has a mind as narrow as the neck of a vinegar-cruet.
Tour to the Hebrides. Sept. 30, 1773.
The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.[376:1]
Pitt's Reply to Walpole. Speech, March 6, 1741.
Towering in the confidence of twenty-one.
Letter to Bennet Langton. Jan. 9, 1758.
Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.
Letter to Boswell. Dec. 8, 1763.
Wharton quotes Johnson as saying of Dr. Campbell, "He is the richest author that ever grazed the common of literature."