ijo THE RURAL SOCRATESc 



* one vvh9 was fo Readily, certainly, evidently, purefy, 

 ' incQrriiptibly, fubilantialJy, all by himfelf ; wasabfo- 

 ^ hitcly nothing but wliat he is, and defigned to be ; in 

 ' iliort was fo lingular in his kind, as this manj who is in 

 ' truth to me incomparable. 



' I have this moment read the new edition of his life ; 



* and could not but finile at the palTagcs where the Xe- 

 ' nophon^ of our Socrates has CKprefled a feariof being 

 ' miflcd by an exceflive chthufiafm, in his defcription of 

 ^ fome of thofe fine fituations in which he has feen him. 

 t — Gan there be need of excufe infpeaking with warmth 



* of fuch a man ? None of all thofe w^ho know Kliyogg, 



* can venture to affirm that too much has bv::en faid of 



* him ; and I fiiall be pardoned by thofe who know him, 



* for aflerting that it is as difficult to defcribe K4iyogg. 

 ^ with the "^^n^ as it is to re^i:c,%r>fe-his^nturci with the- 

 ^pencil. _ . -;: •*' ' '" 



' How often have I not perruadcd him to fit for mc 

 ^ to be painted I Three of ihe bell: portrait drawers and 

 ^ the moil: happy in their likeneffes, have tried their ta- 

 *- lents upon him, I have \:x^c<^ every effort to have him 

 ^ properly exhibited and taken. All the fl^etchcs were 



* eafily known, but not one was a perfe<ft refemblance* 

 ' All appeared- to msraorc or lefs Vv^antingin eKpreflioit 

 ' and mind ; fothat I have at length ablblutely rcnoun- 

 ' ced all hope of feeing this Inblime countenance rep- 

 ' relented, and handed down ilsch as it really is to the 

 ^ univerfe and to poilerity. 



*■ What is thus faid of the portrait-painters of KH- 



* yogg, raufl equally happen to thofe who iinder- 



* take to trace his chara(f^er. Whatever Mr, Hirzel 



* has faid is exacflly true ; this and the other feparate 



* feature ftand covreclly ; but for the whole of the pic- 



* tupe, it is only Kliyogg when it is not placed near 

 } hiTS>* Upon the comparifon, who mufl not have been 

 ' '■"-::^d to acknowledge, tltat Kliyogg Ir.s c''r"',"d eve- 



u;a-o 



•fthc rfa! f^ocrarei?. 



