The utmost that can be said of the letters is that they are the letters of a cleverish man; and there are not many which are entitled even to that praise.

I think he would have stood higher if we had been left to judge of his powers,--as we judge of those of Chatham, Mansfield, Charles Townshend, and many others,--only by tradition, and by fragments of speeches preserved in Parliamentary reports.
I said nothing about Lord Byron's criticism on Walpole, because I thought it, like most of his Lordship's criticism, below refutation.

On the drama Lord Byron wrote more nonsense than on any subject.

He wanted to have restored the unities.

His practice proved as unsuccessful as his theory was absurd.