Comments. on Sterne. 71 
crouded, than the vidiims of the African Slave-trade 
have often been, on the middle paffage.] ‘+ Cum 
certum fit, inquit, fatta fubduétione, non futuros centies 
mille milliones damnandorum.* 
Again, at the end of the fame Chapter in Trif- 
tram Shandy; “ but where am I? and into what a 
‘* delicious riot of thingsam I rufhing? I—I who 
* muft be cut fhort in the midft of my days,” &c. 
Burton concludes his Chapter ‘‘on Maids’, Nunns’, 
‘*« and Widows Melancholy,” in the fame manner. 
** But where am I? into what fubjedt have I rufhed? 
What have Ito do?’*— &c. . 
_ I thall juft obferve by the way, that a pretty 
paffage in the Story of the King of .Bohemia and his 
even. cafiles; — ‘* Movesty {carce touches with a 
“* finger what Liseratity offers her with both hands 
** open”—alludes to a picture of Guido's, the defgn 
of which it defcribes tolerably well. 
Retournons a nos moutons, as Rabelais would fay; 
in matters of painting, it is dangerous for a man to 
truft his own eyes, till he has taken his degree of 
Connoiffeur. aN 
It confirms me ftrongly in the belief that the 
character of Mr. Shandy is a perfonification of the 
authorfhip of Burton, when I find fuch a paffage as 
the following in Sterne. ‘‘ There is a Philippic in 
** verfe on fomebody’s eye or other, that for two 
ac or 
* Anat, of Melanch, p. 156. 
+ Page 124. 
