raw myself into the visionary worlds of art; where I meet with
shining landscapes, gilded triumphs, beautiful faces, and all those
other objects that fill the mind with gay ideas, &c. ADDISON.

It is remarkable that Antony, in his adversity, passed some time in a
small but splendid retreat, which he called his Timonium, and from
which might originate the idea of the Parisian Boudoir, that
favourite apartment, _ou I'on se retire pour etre seul, mais ou l'on
ne boude point_. STRABO, 1. xvii. PLUT, in Vit. Anton.

NOTE e.

_At GUIDO'S call, &c_.

Alluding to his celebrated fresco in the Rospigliosi Palace at Rome.

NOTE f.

_And still the Few best lov'd and most rever'd_

The dining-room is dedicated to Conviviality; or, as Cicero somewhere
expresses it, "Communitati vitae atque victus." There we wish most for
the society of our friends; and, perhaps, in their absence, most
require their portraits.

The moral advantages of this furniture may be illustrated by the
pretty story of an Athenian courtezan, "who, in the midst of a
riotous banquet with her lovers, accidentally cast her eye on the
portrait of a philosopher, that hung opposite to her seat: the happy
character of temperance and virtue struck her with so lively an image
of her own unworthiness, that she instantly quitted the room; and,
retiring home, became ever after an example of temperance, as she had
been before of debauchery."

NOTE g.

_Read antient looks, or woo inspiring dreams_;

The reader will here remember that passage of Horace, _Nunc
veterum libris, nunc somno, &c_ which was inscribed by Lord
Chesterfield on the frieze of his library.

NOTE h.

_And, when a sage's lust arrests then there_,

Siquidem non solum ex auro argentove, aut certe ex aere in
bibliothecis dicantur illi, quorum immortales animae in iisdem locis
ibi loquuntur: quinimo etiam quae non sunt, finguntur, pariuntque
desideria non traditi vultus, sicut in Homero evenit. Quo majus (ut
equidem arbitror) nullum est felicitatis specimen, quam semper omnes
scire cupere, qualis fuerit aliquis. PLIN. Nat. Hist.

Cicero speaks with pleasure of a little seat under Aristotle in the
library of Atticus. "Literis sustentor et recreor; maloque in illa
tua sedecula, quam habes sub imagine Aristotelis, sedere, quam in
istorum sella curuli!" Ep. ad Att. iv. 10.

Nor should we forget that Dryden drew inspiration from the "majestic
face" of Shakespeare; and that a portrait of Newton