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This, instead of making a Play delightful, renders it ridiculous. "Quodeunque ostendis mihi sic, incredulus odi. "Another thing, in which the French differ from us and from the Spaniards, is that they do not embarrass or cumber themselves with too much Plot. They only represent so much of a Story as will constitute One whole and great Action sufficient for a Play.
BOSWELL. Johnson's Works, vi. 42. See post, Oct. 10, 1779. 'Quodcunque ostendis mihi sic incredulus odi. 'For while upon such monstrous scenes we gaze, They shock our faith, our indignation raise. FRANCIS. Horace, Ars Poet. 1. 188. Johnson speaks of 'the natural desire of man to propagate a wonder. Works, vii. 2. 'Wonders, he says, 'are willingly told, and willingly heard. Ib. viii. 292.
"Ah! say not so, father." "But the worst is, this humour of showing them up on a shelf, and half in the dark, and by snatches, and with the poor mountebank trick of a drawn curtain. 'Quodcunque ostendis mihi sic incredulus odi. Enough; the men of this day are not the men of old.
INCREDULUS ODI. To select a singular event, and swell it to a giant's bulk by fabulous appendages of spectres and predictions, has little difficulty; for he that forsakes the probable may always find the marvellous. And it has little use; we are affected only as we believe; we are improved only as we find something to be imitated or declined.
Nec pueros coram populo Medea trucidet; Aut humana palam coquat exta nefarius Atreus; Aut in avem Progne vertatur, Cadmus in anguem, Quodcunque ostendis mihi sic, incredulus odi. Hor. Medea must not draw her murth'ring Knife, Nor Atreus there his horrid Feast prepare.
Eleven thousand Christian virgins in a little, wee, Paynim city! 'Quod cunque ostendis mihi sic incredulus odi. The simple sooth is this. The martyrs were two: the Breton princess herself, falsely called British, and her maid, Onesimilla, which is a Greek name, Onesima, diminished.
Even a railroad generation, that should have faith in the miracles of velocity, lifts up its hands with an 'Incredulus odi! we know that Dr. Nichol speaks the truth; but he seems to speak falsehood.
Piozzi have related concerning himself, how much would he have found his observation illustrated. He was indeed so much impressed with the prevalence of falsehood, voluntary or unintentional, that I never knew any person who upon hearing an extraordinary circumstance told, discovered more of the incredulus odi . He would say, with a significant look and decisive tone, 'It is not so.
"Nec pueros coram populo Medea trucidet: Aut humana palam coquat exta nefarius Atreus; Aut in avem Progne vertatur, Cadmus in anguem. Quodcunque ostendis mihi sic, incredulus odi." HOR. ARS. POET. ver. 185.
'This part of Scythia, in its whole Northern extent, I take to have been the vast Hive out of which issued so many mighty swarms of barbarous nations, &c. No. 22. Monday, March 26, 1711. Steele. 'Quodcunque ostendis mihi sic incredulus odi. Hor.
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