To Joseph Hill, Esq.
Weston, March 10, 1791.
Give my affectionate remembrances to your sisters, and tell them I am impatient to entertain them with my old story new dressed.
I have two French prints hanging in my study, both on Iliad subjects; and I have an English one in the parlour, on a subject from the same poem. In one of the former, Agamemnon addresses Achilles exactly in the attitude of a dancing-master turning miss in a minuet: in the latter, the figures are plain, and the attitudes plain also. This is, in some considerable measure, I believe, the difference between my translation and Pope's; and will serve as an exemplification of what I am going to lay before you and the public.
W. C.