Note 74 — Chapter V
Reading edition
In the little memorandum book from which I extracted this, Hogarth has inserted the following note (without the translation) from Horace. I do not produce it as a proof that he was a Latin scholar, but suppose that the lines were pointed out by some literary friend, and he thus applied them:—
"Segnius irritant animos dimissa per aures, Quam quæ sunt oculis commissa fidelibus."
"What we hear, With weaker passion will affect the ear, Than when the faithful eye beholds the part." —Francis.