. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. d by the nose (not my own, but that of theother party)—in my pn possessions. My curiosity docs not object to the disproportionate number of por-traits in the annual exhibition.—nor grudge the expense of engrav-ing a gentlemans head and shoulders. Like Judith, and the daughterof Herodias, 1 have a taste for a head in a plate, and accede cheerfullyto the charge of the charger. A book without a portrait of the authoris worse than anonymous. As in a churchyard, you may look on ^v number of ribs and shin-bones as so many sticks merely, withoutr
. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. d by the nose (not my own, but that of theother party)—in my pn possessions. My curiosity docs not object to the disproportionate number of por-traits in the annual exhibition.—nor grudge the expense of engrav-ing a gentlemans head and shoulders. Like Judith, and the daughterof Herodias, 1 have a taste for a head in a plate, and accede cheerfullyto the charge of the charger. A book without a portrait of the authoris worse than anonymous. As in a churchyard, you may look on ^v number of ribs and shin-bones as so many sticks merely, withoutrest; but if there should chance to be a skull near hand, it claims M 178 FANCY PORTRAITS. the relics at once,—so it is with the authors headpiece in front of hispages. _ The portrait claims the work. The Arcadia, for instance, Iknow is none of mine—it be]onj,s to that young fair gentleman inarmour with a ruff ! So necessary it is for me to have an outward visible sign of theinward spiritual poet or philosopher, that in default of an authentic. Mr Bowles. resemblnnce, I cannot help forging for him an effigy in my mindseye,—a Fancy Portrait. A few examples of contemporaries I havesketched down, but my collection is far from complete. How have I longed to glimpse, in fancy, the Great Unknown !—the Roc of Literature !—but he keeps his head, like Ben Lomond,enveloped in a cloud. How have I sighed for a beau ideal of theauthor of Christabel and the Ancient Mnrinere !^but I have beenmocked with a dozen images confusing each other, and indistinct as
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