[T]he realms of nature and of art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace.
The only people in jeans, apart from me, were the cattlegirls whose job it was to spray the calves with water and then dry them with a hair-dryer so that they ended up looking like fluffy toys.
We have seen syllogisms, crocodiles, enthymemas, sorites, &c. explained and tried upon a boy of nine or ten years old in playful conversation […]
You ſhow us, Rome was glorious, not profuſe, / And pompous Buildings once were things of uſe. / Yet ſhall (my Lord) your juſt, your noble Rules / Fill half the land with Imitating Fools: / … / Conſcious they act a true Palladian part, / And if they ſtarve, they ſtarve by the Rules of Art.
Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington (1694–1753), is noted for bringing Palladian architecture to Britain and Ireland.
