Criticising A Statue
SOON after Canning's statue was put up in Palace Yard, in all its
verdant freshness, the carbonate of copper not yet blackened by the
smoke of London, Mr. Justice Gazelee was walking away from Westminster
Hall with a friend, when the judge, looking at the statue (which is
colossal), said, I don't think this is very like Canning; he was not so
large a man.--No, my lord, replied his companion, nor so green.