Or you had been immortal, and a pattern,
When Heaven would work for ostentation sake,
To copy out again."—"All for Love."
Banks prefers the works of Michael Angelo to that of the gods:
"A pattern for the gods to make a man by,
Or Michael Angelo to form a statue."
[87] It is impossible, says Mr. W——, sufficiently to admire this natural easy line.
[88] This tragedy, which in most points resembles the ancients, differs from them in this—that it assigns the same honour to lowness of stature which they did to height. The gods and heroes in Homer and Virgil are continually described higher by the head than their followers, the contrary of which is observed by our author. In short, to exceed on either side is equally admirable; and a man of three foot is as wonderful a sight as a man of nine.
"My blood leaks fast, and the great heavy lading