Pliny, he ridiculed the proportions of the temple of Rome and Venus, which had been built from Adrian's designs, saying that "if the goddesses who were placed in it should be disposed to stand up, they would be in danger of breaking their heads against the roof, or if they should wish to go out, they could not," which so incensed the Emperor, that he banished the architect, and had him put to death. Another account is, that as Trajan was conversing about some of the buildings, Adrian, who was present, made some remarks, on which the architect said, "Go and paint pumpkins, for you know nothing about these matters," an affront which Adrian never forgot, and avenged by the death of the architect when he became Emperor. What a return to the architect of Trajan's Column!
HOGARTH.
The talents of this eccentric genius were preëminent
in burlesque and satire. He therefore chiefly
devoted himself to delineate the calamities and
crimes of private life, and the vices and follies of the
age. He portrayed vice as leading to disgrace and
misery, while he represented virtue as conducting
to happiness and honor. His series of the "Harlot's
Progress," the "Rake's Progress," "Marriage
à la Mode," gained him great reputation; and
the prints which he engraved and published from
them, although rude specimens of the art, met with an
enormous sale, greatly to his own emolument. Lord
