P.S.--At p. 123. of Vol. vi. are inserted some other parallels, noted by me
in the course of my reading. For one of these so inserted, that relating
{152} to Sylla, I was taken to task (see Vol. vi., p. 208.) by P. C. S. S.
Now, the parallel between the two passages ("_Parallel_, resemblance,
conformity continued through many particulars, likeness," Johnson's
_Dictionary_) is this: Both verses endeavour to picture the mingled red and
white of the "human face divine" (one satirically, the other
eulogistically), by comparing their combined effect to that of the red hue
of fruit seen through a partially superfused white medium--meal over
mulberries, cream over strawberries. If there is not sufficient
"resemblance" or "likeness" in the two (in the opinion of P. C. S. S.) to
justify me in placing them _alongside of one another_ ([Greek: parallêla]),
I really cannot help it.