Let observation, with extensive view,
Survey mankind, from China to Peru.
Dr. Johnson: Vanity of Human Wishes, 1749.
Shakspeare’s dreamy Dane says,—
Man delights not me, nor woman neither.
A sentiment very nearly expressed in Horace’s Ode to Venus:—
Me nec femina, nec puer,
Jam nec spes animi credula mutui.
Nec certare juvat mero, &c.—Lib. IV.