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'Lulli being the first modern composer who caught the French ear, was the means, to a great extent, of forming the modern French taste. No. 30. Wednesday, April 4, 1711. Steele. 'Si, Mimnermus uti censet, sine amore Focisque Nil est Jucundum; vivas in amore Jocisque. Hor. One common Calamity makes Men extremely affect each other, tho' they differ in every other Particular.
In truth, in all things, if nature do not help a little, it is very hard for art and industry to perform anything to purpose. I am in my own nature not melancholic, but meditative; and there is nothing I have more continually entertained myself withal than imaginations of death, even in the most wanton time of my age: "Jucundum quum aetas florida ver ageret."
So that of Good there be three kinds; Good in the Promise, that is Pulchrum; Good in Effect, as the end desired, which is called Jucundum, Delightfull; and Good as the Means, which is called Utile, Profitable; and as many of evill: For evill, in Promise, is that they call Turpe; evill in Effect, and End, is Molestum, Unpleasant, Troublesome; and evill in the Means, Inutile, Unprofitable, Hurtfull.
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