Note 15 — BRAMSTON'S "MAN OF TASTE"
Reading edition
"But the science of gaming is that which above all others employs their thoughts [i.e. the thoughts of the 'young gentlemen of our times']. These are the studies of their graver hours, while for their amusements they have the vast circle of connoisseurship, painting, music, statuary, and natural philosophy, or rather unnatural, which deals in the wonderful, and knows nothing of nature, except her monsters and imperfections" (ch. v.). [16] Table Talk of Samuel Rogers [by Dyce], 1856, p. 73.