His disappointment in this attempt, coupled, probably, with remorse for the follies and vices of a misspent youth, seems to have soured Young, and ripened him to the point when satire becomes the unavoidable expression of the irritated yet unsubdued spirit. In 1725 appeared the first part of his "Universal Passion;" the rest came out in successive satires between that and 1728, when they were collected and published, along with a somewhat querulous preface, in which he hints that he had not found poetry very favourable to preferment. He gained, however, L3000 by these poems, of which, according to Spence, L2000 was contributed by the Duke of Grafton, who did not, however, regret the price. His inscriptions of the several satires were, as usual at the time, stuffed with fulsome praise of such men as Dorset, Dodington, Campton, and Sir Robert Walpole, all of whom appreciated and rewarded the compliments. We reserve our criticism on these remarkable productions till afterwards, noticing only at present, that they were published _before_ the satires of Pope, and that they became instantly popular. As if to propitiate the Nemesis, who always stands behind the chariot of the popular writer, Young next issued two of the poorest of all his unequal productions. The first of these, entitled "The Instalment," was addressed to Sir Robert Walpole, and is, perhaps, although the word be a wide one, the most nonsensical and trashy _lie in verse_ ever addressed to a prime minister. The second is an "Ode to Ocean," a compound of doggrel and stilted dulness--which, indeed, any sailor of education might have composed, if "half-seas-over."