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Contempt is to me a luxury. I would not lose the privilege of loathing for all the objects which fools ever admired. What does old Persius say on the subject? "'Hoc ridere meum, tam nil, nulla tibi vendo Iliade."* * "This privilege of mine, to laugh, such a nothing as it seems, I would not barter to thee for an Iliad."
Correggio's angels are grand and lovely, but they are like children enlarged and sublimated, not like spirits taking the form of children; where they smile it is truly as Annibal Caracci expresses it con una naturalezza et simplicita che innamora e sforza a ridere con loro: but the smile in many of Correggio's angel heads has something sublime and spiritual, as well as simple and natural.
"E poi, che commedia vederli arrabiarsi! Che ridere!" That is the Venetian notion of fun, and no doubt the scene is amusing. I was curious to see Sior Antonio, because a comic journal bearing his name had been published during the time of the Republic of 1848, and from the fact that he was then a sort of Venetian Pasquino.
He was a dark Egyptian, speaking only the lingua franca of the East, and asked me, as he took the money and departed on his mission, whether he should get hasheesh "per ridere, a per dormire?" "Oh, per ridere, of course," I answered; "and see that it be strong and fresh."
Persius 1, 9 istud vivere; 1, 122 hoc ridere meum. SI: 'even if', 'granting that'. BONA AETAS: 'the good time of life', i.e. youth. Tischer qu. Varro de Re Rustica 2, 6, 2 mares feminaeque bona aetate = 'young'. For bona aetas = homines bona aetate cf. n. on 26 senectus. UT DIXIMUS: not expressly, but the opinion is implied in 44, 45.
Contempt is to me a luxury. I would not lose the privilege of loathing for all the objects which fools ever admired. What does old Persius say on the subject? "'Hoc ridere meum, tam nil, nulla tibi vendo Iliade."* * "This privilege of mine, to laugh, such a nothing as it seems, I would not barter to thee for an Iliad."
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