LORD WOODHOUSELEE. 525 
Apercromere (late Lord Axercromste), of Writram Crarc 
(late Lord Craic), of Arran Maconocute (late Lord Mea- 
powzank), of Wittram Apa (now Lord Chief-Commissioner), 
of Rosert Lasron, of ANprew Dawzet, of Wittram Rosgert- 
son (now Lord Rozertson), of Joun Prayrarr, of Dr Gre- 
cory, and of Duéatp Srewart,—men, whom in this place it 
would ill become me to insult with praise, but from whose 
friendship, I may be permitted to say, there is no name so il- 
lustrious that would not derive distinction. 
If the seasons of academical ‘study were thus happily and 
usefully employed by Mr Tyrter, the seasons of the summer 
vacation were not less so. Upon these occasions, he retired 
to Woodhouselee, the beautiful seat of his father, near Edin- 
burgh, a scene endeared to him by the remembrances of in- 
fancy,—by all the ties of domestic affection,—by the improve- 
ments which his father was then annually adding to it,—and, 
perhaps, by those anticipations of greater embellishment which 
it was afterwards to receive from his own hands. Amid the 
solitude and quiet of this romantic residence, and at a distance 
from the prescribed routine of academical labour, he felt all the: 
happiness that arises from the freedom of study, and was at 
liberty to follow out, without interruption, those literary pur- 
suits to which inclination and taste most strongly inclined him. 
The character of his age, and of his mind, led him naturally to. 
those compositions which, as addressed to: the imagination and. 
the heart, constitute the polite literature of every country. 
His knowledge, both of the ancient and the modern languages,, 
enabled him to indulge this desire; and in the course ‘of 
* successive summers, he seems to have formed and to have exe- 
cuted,-with this view, a plan both of comprehensive and of 
systematic study. 
