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. Sect. 4, Memb. 2, Subsect. 3._
FOOTNOTES:
[185-2] See Fletcher, page 184.
There 's not a string attuned to mirth But has its chord in melancholy.
HOOD: _Ode to Melancholy._
[185-3] Dr. Johnson said Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy" was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise. And Byron said, "If the reader has patience to go through his volumes, he will be more improved for literary conversation than by the perusal of any twenty other works with which I am acquainted."--_Works, vol. i. p. 144._
[185-4] A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.--GARRICK: _Prologue on quitting the stage._
Non ignara mali, miseris succurrere disco (Being not unacquainted with woe, I learn to help the unfortunate).--VIRGIL: _Æneid, lib. i. 630._
[185-5] See Shakespeare, page 84.
[185-6] Nihil dictum quod non dictum prius (There is nothing said which has not been said before).--TERENCE: _Eunuchus. Prol. 10._
[185-7] A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees farther of the two.--HERBERT: _Jacula Prudentum._
A dwarf sees farther than the giant when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.--COLERIDGE: _The Friend, sect. i. essay viii._
Pigmæi gigantum humeris impositi plusquam ipsi gigantes vident (Pigmies placed on the shoulders of giants see more than the giants themselves).--_Didacus Stella in Lucan, 10, tom. ii._
[186-1] Le style est l'homme même (The style is the man himself).--BUFFON: _Discours de Réception_ (_Recueil de l'Académie_, 1750).
[186-2] Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are formed and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing, as bears leisurely lick their cubs into form.--MONTAIGNE: _Apology for Raimond Sebond,