When I look at the articles on Handel, on Dr. Arnold, or indeed on almost
any one whom I know anything about, I feel that such a work as the
_Dictionary of National Biography_ adds more terror to death than death
of itself could inspire. That is one reason why I let myself go so
unreservedly in these notes. If the colours in which I paint myself fail
to please, at any rate I shall have had the laying them on myself.