"And burns Lorenzo still for the sublime
Of life? to hang his airy nest on high?"

Is this a picture of the son of the Rector of Welwyn? "Eighth
Night:"--

"In foreign realms (for thou hast travelled far)"--

which even now does not apply to his son. In "Night Five:"--

"So wept Lorenzo fair Clarissa's fate,
Who gave that angel-boy on whom he dotes,
And died to give him, orphaned in his birth!"

At the beginning of the "Fifth Night" we find:--

"Lorenzo, to recriminate is just,
I grant the man is vain who writes for praise."

But, to cut short all inquiry; if any one of these passages, if any
passage in the poems, be applicable, my friend shall pass for
Lorenzo. The son of the author of the "Night Thoughts" was not old
enough, when they were written, to recriminate or to be a father.
The "Night Thoughts" were begun immediately after the mournful event
of 1741. The first "Nights" appear, in the books of the Company of
Stationers, as the property of Robert Dodsley, in 1742. The Preface
to "Night Seven" is dated July 7th, 1744. The marriage, in
consequence of which the supposed Lorenzo was born, happened in May,
1731. Young's child was not born till June, 1733. In 1741, this