[38] "What Caricatura is in painting," says _Fielding_, "Burlesque is in writing; and in the same manner the comic writer and painter correlate to each other. And here I shall observe, that as in the former the painter seems to have the advantage; so it is in the latter infinitely on the side of the writer: for the Monstrous is much easier to paint than describe, and the Ridiculous to describe than paint. And though perhaps this latter species doth not in either science so strongly affect and agitate the muscles as the other; yet it will be owned, I believe, that a more rational and useful pleasure arises to us from it." [39] This idea originally occurred in _Colley Cibber's Apology_. From thence it was transplanted by _Lloyd_ into his celebrated poem intituled _The Actor_. Lying thus in the way of _Garrick_, he took it up for the use of the _prologue_ already quoted. Lastly, Mr. _Sheridan_, in his beautiful _Monody_, condescended to borrow it, only because it spared him the labour of unlocking the richer storehouse of his own imagination. I may however remark that _Cibber_, when he suggested this mortifying reflection, had more reason on his side than some of his successors who have indulged themselves in the same dolorous strain of complaint. To whatever oblivion the celebrated actors of the last age have been resigned, the pencil of _Hogarth, Dance, Zoffani,_ and _Reynolds_, had left Mr. _Garrick_ not the slightest reason to be apprehensive that, in his own particular case, the art and the artist would alike be forgotten. Meanwhile, let our heroes of the stage be taught to moderate their anxiety for posthumous renown, by a recollection that their peculiar modes of excellence will, at least, be as well preserved to futurity as those of the lords _Chatham_ and _Mansfield_, whose talents, perhaps, might support an equal claim to perpetuation. [40] Dr. _M._ once observed to _J. N._ in a letter on this subject, "In the 13th chapter I was somewhat puzzled with the _flat_ and _round_, or the _concave_ and _convex_, appearing the reverse; till the sun happily shining in upon the cornice, I had a fair example of what he intended to express. The next chapter, with regard to _colouring_, did not go on quite so smooth; for, if I satisfied _him_, I was not satisfied _myself_ with his peculiar principles; nor could I relish his laying the blame on the _colourmen_, &c."