THOUGHTS ON TASTE
[450]. ‘He had found a few pearls,’ etc. Œuvres, L. 58. July 19, 1776. ‘Rich as the oozy bottom,’ etc. Henry V., Act I. Sc. 2. ‘Or like a gate of steel,’ etc. Troilus and Cressida, Act III. Sc. 3. [451]. ‘Damns [condemns] him,’ etc. Much Ado About Nothing, Act IV. Sc. 3. ‘Lay their choppy fingers,’ etc. Macbeth, Act I. Sc. 3. [452]. ‘Have built high towers,’ etc. Paradise Lost, I. 749. ‘Majestic though in ruin.’ Paradise Lost, II. 305. Innocence ‘likest heaven.’ ‘O innocence deserving Paradise.’ Ibid., V. 445–6. ‘In tones,’ etc. Paradise Regained, IV. 255. The author of the ‘Friend,’ etc. Coleridge may have said this to Hazlitt himself. He described Pope’s writings as ‘a conjunction disjunctive of epigrams’ (Biographia Literaria, chap. I.). For his views on French Tragedy, see ibid., Satyrane’s Letters, Letter II. The author of the ‘Excursion,’ etc. See The Excursion, II. 484. Cf. vol. I. (The Round Table), p. 116 and note. Note. Non satis est, etc. Horace, Ars Poetica, 99. [453]. ‘Not to admire,’ etc. ‘Not to admire is all the art I know,’ quoted by Pope from Creech’s translation of Horace. See Imitations of Horace, Book I. Epistle vi. I.