[769] ’After having been detained by storms many days at Sky we left it, as we thought, with a fair wind; but a violent gust, which Bos had a great mind to call a tempest, forced us into Col.’ Piozzi Letters, i. 167.  ’The wind blew against us in a short time with such violence, that we, being no seasoned sailors, were willing to call it a tempest...  The master knew not well whither to go; and our difficulties might, perhaps, have filled a very pathetick page, had not Mr. Maclean of Col... piloted us safe into his own harbour.’  Johnson’s Works, ix. 117.  Sir Walter Scott says, ’Their risque, in a sea full of islands, was very considerable.  Indeed, the whole expedition was highly perilous, considering the season of the year, the precarious chance of getting sea-worthy boats, and the ignorance of the Hebrideans, who, notwithstanding the opportunities, I may say the necessities, of their situation, are very careless and unskilful sailors.’  Croker’s Boswell, p. 362.

[770] For as the tempest drives, I shape my way.  FRANCIS. [Horace, Epistles, i. 1. 15.] BOSWELL.

[771]

     ’Imberbus juvenis, tandem custode remoto,
      Gaudet equis canibusque, et aprici gramine campi.’ 
     ’The youth, whose will no froward tutor bounds,
      Joys in the sunny field, his horse and hounds.’

FRANCIS.  Horace, Ars Poet. 1. 161.

[772] Henry VI, act i. sc. 2.

[773] See ante, i. 468, and iii. 306.

[774] Johnson describes him as ’a gentleman who has lived some time in the East Indies, but, having dethroned no nabob, is not too rich to settle in his own country.’  Johnson’s Works, ix. 117.

[775] This curious exhibition may perhaps remind some of my readers of the ludicrous lines, made, during Sir Robert Walpole’s administration, on Mr. George (afterwards Lord) Lyttelton, though the figures of the two personages must be allowed to be very different:—­

     ’But who is this astride the pony;
      So long, so lean, so lank, so bony? 
      Dat be de great orator, Littletony.’

BOSWELL.

These lines were beneath a caricature called The Motion, described by Horace Walpole in his letter of March 25, 1741, and said by Mr. Cunningham to be ’the earliest good political caricature that we possess.’  Walpole’s Letters, i. 66.  Mr. Croker says that ’the exact words are:—­

     bony?  O he be de great orator Little-Tony.’

[776] See ante, ii. 213.

[777] In 1673 Burnet, who was then Professor of Theology in Glasgow, dedicated to Lauderdale A Vindication of the Authority, &c., of the Church and State of Scotland.  In it he writes of the Duke’s ’noble character, and more lasting and inward characters of his princely mind.’

[778] See ante, i. 450.

[779] See ante, p. 250.