[44] Taken from the Opera “La Somnambula.”
“Nature provides man with hair and beard,
But I cut them both.”
“I devote my razors to all faces,
And defy the criticism of faithful mirrors.”
[47] A sort of pun, “la belle occasion” implying the same idea that our shopkeepers express by their “Now is your time,” and similar puffs.
[48] Similar instances may also be occasionally met with in London; for instance, the Corsican Brothers, (Coffee-house, Fulham Road.)
[49] Two or three good examples are to be seen in the South Kensington Museum.
[50] Edwards’s Anecdotes of Painters, 1808, p. 117.
[51] J. T. Smith’s Nollekens and his Times, vol. i. p. 25.