As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes.

A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.

Pity melts the mind to love.

The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme, The young men's vision, and the old men's dream!

Imitation pleases, because it affords matter for inquiring into the truth or falsehood of imitation, by comparing its likeness or unlikeness with the original.

For my part, I can compare her (a gossip) to nothing but the sun; for, like him, she knows no rest, nor ever sets in one place but to rise in another.

So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.