"For to return to our Statue in the Block of Marble, we see it sometimes only begun to be chipped, sometimes rough-hewn and but just sketched into an human Figure, sometimes we see the Man appearing distinctly in all his Limbs and Features, sometimes we find the Figure wrought up to a great Elegancy, but seldom meet with any to which the Hand of aPhidias or aPraxiteles could not give several nice touches and Finishings. "
Spectator, No. 215
See Donald Bond's edition: <u>The Spectator</u>, 3 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965), ii, 338-341.<br>
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Reading originally in <u>Cato: A Tragedy and Selected Essays</u>, ed. by Christine Dunn Henderson and Mark E. Yellin, with a Foreword by Forrest McDonald (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2004).