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De." "You do intrude," said Fuseli, in a surly tone. "Do I?" said the
visitor; "then, sir, I will come to-morrow, if you please." "No, sir,"
replied he, "don't come to-morrow, for then you will intrude a second
time: tell me your business now!" A man of some station in society, and
who considered himself a powerful patron in art, said at a public
dinner, where he was charmed with Fuseli's conversation, "If you ever
come my way, Fuseli, I shall be happy to see you." The painter instantly
caught the patronizing, self-important spirit of the invitation. "I
thank you," retorted he, "but I never go your way--I never even go down
your street, although I often pass by the end of it!" FUSELI'S
SUGGESTION OF AN EMBLEM OF ETERNITY Looking upon a serpent with its tail
in its mouth, carved upon an exhibited monument as an emblem of
Eternity, and a very commonplace one, he said to the sculptor, "It won't
do, I tell you; you must have something new." The _something new_
startled a man whose imagination was none of the brightest, and he said,
"How shall I find something new?" "O, nothing so easy," said Fuseli,
"I'll help you to it. When I went away to Rome I left two fat men
cutting fat bacon in St. Martin's Lane; in ten years' time I returned,
and found the two fat men cutting fat bacon still; twenty years more
have passed, and there the two fat fellows cut the fat flitches the same
as ever. Carve them! if they look not like an image of eternity, I wot
not what does." FUSELI'S REPORT IN MR. COUTTS' BANKING HOUSE. During the
exhibition of his Milton pictures, he called at the banking house of Mr.
Coutts, saying he was going out of town for a few days, and wished to
have some money in his pocket. "How much?" said one of the firm. "How
much!" said Fuseli, "why, as much as twenty pounds; and as it is a large
sum, and I don't wish to take your establishment by surprise, I have
called to give you a day's notice of it!" "I thank you, sir," said th