(Thomas), an author both in poetry and prose, the friend of Johnson, and well known to most of the eminent characters of the present time, was a student of the Temple in 1753. His father intended him for the law, but the young man it seems penned a sonnet when he should enrols. He was accomplished, but not a profound man; and had taste and elegan... gance of mind, slightly tinged with gleams of genius. He wrote some pictorials and political tracts, which probably will not survive the partiality of his particular friends.