In the picture of Lessing, he has a Toupee Periwig, which enormously injured the effect of his Physiognomy. - Klopstock wore the same powdered &c - / it had an ugly look. - Honor to Poets & great men. You think of them as part of Nature / & any thing of Trick & Fashion wounds you as if you were to see epaulettes dangling from an Orange Tree. -

Coleridge's Notebooks - A selection, s. 12-13.