“If a painter chooseand, be proceeds to say, should add other limbs from different animals.
To place a man's head on a horse's neck,
”
[60]
A similar fault is
found amongst ourselves, consisting in the indiscriminate mixture of grand words with mean, old
with new, and poetic with colloquial, the result
being a monstrous medley like that described by
Horace in the opening portion of his Ars poetica,1
1 A. P. I.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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