TASTE.
Some say, compared to Bononcini,
That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny;
Others aver,—that he to Handel
Is scarcely fit to hold a candle:
Strange all this difference should be,
'Twixt tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee!
On the Feuds between Handel and Bononcini. J. BYROM.
What's one man's poison, signor,
Is another's meat or drink.
Love's Cure, Act iii. Sc. 2. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.
Different minds
Incline to different objects: one pursues
The vast alone, the wonderful, the wild;
Another sighs for harmony, and grace,
And gentlest beauty.
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Such and so various are the tastes of men. Pleasures of the Imagination, Bk. III. M. AKENSIDE.