Fuseli once repeated half-a-dozen sonorous and well sounding lines in
Greek, to Prof. Porson, and said,--
"With all your learning now, you cannot tell me who wrote that."
The Professor, "much renowned in Greek," confessed his ignorance, and
said, "I don't know him."
"How the devil should you know him?" chuckled Fuseli, "I made them this
moment."