But the new luminary never shone again with its first brilliance.

He sought Burke out on the strength of the success of the _Vindication of Natural Society_, and he seems to have had a taste for good company.

Horace Walpole describes a dinner at his house in the summer of 1761.

"There were Garrick," he says, "and a young Mr.Burke, who wrote a book in the style of Lord Bolingbroke, that is much admired.

He is a sensible man, but has not worn off his authorism yet, and thinks there is nothing so charming as writers, and to be one.