"My temper, Sir, inclines not me t' extol
Or to depreciate much, or much admire,—
Full well I recollect thee as thou wert."
[68] First part of Shakspeare's "King Henry the Fourth," Act 3rd.
[69] These statues, which have been named Castor and Pollux by some, (and by an absurd anachronism, Alexander, by others,) were considered by Fuseli to be the work of Phidias, and designed for a monument. He was of opinion that they are duplicate figures; and the subject, "Achilles curbing and addressing his steed, and astonished at the answer of his prophetic courser."
[70] This picture is lost: his celebrated work of "Sin pursued by Death," being painted over it. On this canvass there are no less than three finished pictures.
[71] Darwin.
[72] See Pilkington's Dictionary, by Fuseli, second edition, page 191.
[73] They are now the property of the Countess of Guilford.
[74] This character of Fuseli was written a short time previously to his death.
[75] Dante.
[76] Ibid.