Coin his smile for drachmas. ‘I had rather coin my heart, and drop my blood for drachmas.’ Julius Cæsar, IV. 3.
ESSAY IX. ON THE OLD AGE OF ARTISTS
From The New Monthly Magazine, No. 33, Vol. VIII., 1823, ‘Table Talk, VIII.’
[88]. Mr. Nollekens. Joseph Nollekens, died in 1823.
‘A man’s a man for a’ that.’ Burns, ‘Is there for honest poverty.’
[89]. Chantry. Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey (1781–1841). The wealth he accumulated by means of his art was given to the Royal Academy for the purchase of works of art executed in Great Britain.
Have wrought himself to stone. Cf. ‘I have not yet forgot myself to stone.’ Pope, Eloisa to Abelard, 24.
As when a vulture on Imaus bred. Paradise Lost, III. 431.
[89]. Bernini. Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680), painter, sculptor and architect. He was called the Michael Angelo of his times.
Roubilliac. Louis Francis Roubilliac, French sculptor (d. 1762). He executed the statue of Sir Isaac Newton, Trinity College, Cambridge. The monument to the Duke of Argyle, in Westminster Abbey, is his.