..." My reading was enlarged with the very important addition of Thomson's and Shenstone's works. ... I had met with a collection of letters by the wits of Queen Anne's reign, and I poured over them devoutly. The addition of two more authors to my library gave me great pleasure ;...

...years old, engaged several of his school fellows to keep up a literary correspondence with him. He had met with a collection of letters by the wits of Queen Anne's reign and he pored over them most devoutly. "I kept copies of any of my own letters that pleased me," he says,...