NO DEGREE OF UGLINESS REALLY UNFORTUNATE.—FIDUS CORNELIUS COMPARED TO
A PLUCKED OSTRICH.—WILKES' CLAIM TO UGLINESS CONSIDERED AND NEGATIVED
BY DR. JOHNSON, NOTWITHSTANDING HOGARTH'S PORTRAIT.—CAST OF THE EYE À
LA MONTMORENCY.—ST. EVREMOND AND TURENNE.—WILLIAM BLAKE THE PAINTER,
AND THE WELSH TRIADS.—CURIOUS EXTRACT FROM THAT VERY CURIOUS AND RARE
BOOK, THE DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF HIS OWN PICTURES,—AND A PAINFUL ONE
FROM HIS POETICAL SKETCHES.
“_If thou beest not so handsome as thou wouldest have been thank God
thou art not more unhandsome than thou art._ 'Tis His mercy thou art
not the mark for passenger's fingers to point at, an Heteroclite in
nature, with some member defective or redundant. Be glad that thy clay
cottage hath all the necessary forms thereto belonging, though the
outside be not so fairly plaistered as some others.”
FULLER'S HOLY STATE, B. iii. C. 15.