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Imagine to yourself a little squat, uncourtly figure of a Doctor Slop, of about four feet and a half perpendicular height, with a breadth of back, and a sesquipedality of belly, which might have done honour to a serjeant in the horse-guards.
Such were the outlines of Dr. Slop's figure, which, -- if you have read Hogarth's analysis of beauty, and if you have not, I wish you would; -- -- -you must know, may as certainly be caricatured, and conveyed to the mind by three strokes as three hundred.