the Influence of Tafle on Morals. 235 
«* The bailiffs come, rude men, profanely bold, 
And bid him turn his Venus into gold. 
No Sirs 1 ” he cries, “ I’ll fooner rot in jail ! 
Shall Grecian arts be truck’d for Englilh bail ? 
Such heads might make their very buftos laugh: 
His daughter ftarves: but Cleopatra’s fafe.” * 
Another is betrayed into a condud equally 
ridiculous and fatal, by a take for the elegances 
of life, and domeftic refinements. Fancy is 
ever ready to fugged fome new plan to be 
executed, or improvement to be made. The 
houfe is capable of dill higher embellifhments; 
and the garden may be laid out, in a manner 
more beautiful. He complies with the fuggedions 
of his refined tade—involves himfelf in diffi¬ 
culties—and is at length ruined. 
The malady of a third is, an exceffive and fickly 
kind of delicacy. His feelings are fo nice, and 
his ideas fo refined, that he is irritated and vexed 
with every trifle. lie is not only affeded 
- ----- - - - “ with quick difguft. 
From things deform’d, or (Jffarranged, or grofs 
In fpecies.” j- 
Even thofe objeds, which to others afford very 
confiderable pleafure, are feen by him, with a 
joylefs indifference. But, indeed, almod every 
avenue to enjoyment is ffrnt up, by this unhappy 
* Young’s Satires. 
f Akenfide’s Pleafures of Imagination. 
difeafe. 
