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Updated: May 23, 2025
I proposed that he should be brought on to speak a Prologue upon the occasion; and I began to mutter fragments of what it might be: as, that when now grown old, he was obliged to cry, 'Poor Tom's a-cold ; that he owned he had been driven from the stage by a Churchill, but that this was no disgrace, for a Churchill had beat the French; that he had been satyrised as 'mouthing a sentence as curs mouth a bone, but he was now glad of a bone to pick.
Johnson expressed his disapprobation of ornamental architecture, such as magnificent columns supporting a portico, or expensive pilasters supporting merely their own capitals, 'because it consumes labour disproportionate to its utility. For the same reason he satyrised statuary. The value of statuary is owing to its difficulty. You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot.
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