In proportion as multitudes are touched, there must be merit.

As in music a simple heart-melody is often more effective than any triumph over difficulties or bravura of manner, so in engraving, the sense of the beautiful may prevail over all else; and this is the case with the Pomponne, although…

And who is this handsome man to whom the engraver has given a lease of fame?

He could not abide beauty of intelligence without goodness of soul; and he preferred always the poor, having for them not only compassion, but a sort of reverence.

He knew that the way to take the poison from riches was to let the poor taste of them.

The work which goes most to my blood, and of which Edelinck himself was justly proud, is the portrait of Champagne.

I shall die before I cease often to contemplate it with ever new wonder.

He was eminently a portrait engraver, which I must insist is the highest form of the art, as the human face is the most important object for its exercise.

Less clear and simple than Nanteuil, and less severe than Edelinck, he gave to the face individuality of character, and made his works conspicuous in Art.

Art in all its forms had become florid, if not meretricious; and Drevet was a representative of his age.

The portrait of Bossuet has everything to attract and charm.

There stands the powerful defender of the Catholic Church, master of French style, and most renowned pulpit orator of France, in episcopal robes, with abundant lace, which is the perpetual envy of the fair who look at this transcendent…

At her death the actress could not be buried in consecrated ground; but through Art she has the perpetual companionship of the greatest bishop of France.

With the younger Drevet closed the classical period of portraits in engraving, as just before had closed the Augustan age of French literature.

Louis the Fourteenth decreed engraving a Fine Art, and established an Academy for its cultivation.

Pride and ostentation in the king and the great aristocracy created a demand, which the genius of the age supplied.

Under his influence the art assumed new life, so that he became father of the modern school.

But none of his portraits is calculated to give greater pleasure than that of Leonardo da Vinci, which may vie in beauty even with the famous Pomponne.

Looking at that tranquil countenance, it is easy to imagine the large and various capacities which made him not only painter, but sculptor, architect, musician, poet, discoverer, philosopher, even predecessor of Galileo and Bacon.

Such a character deserves the immortality of Art.

There is also a new and kindred art, infinite in value, where the Sun himself becomes artist, with works which mark an epoch.

Brave Theseus, they were MEN like all before, And human souls in human frames they bore, With you to take their parts in earthly feasts, With you to climb one heaven and sit immortal guests.

I was fully convinced, that, whatever difference there is between the Negro and European in the conformation of the nose and the color of the skin, there is none in the genuine sympathies and characteristic feelings of our common…

Sumner proceeded to explain the bill, which he insisted was in conformity with the Declaration of Independence, and with the National Constitution, neither of which knows anything of the word “white.” Then, announcing that he should do…

They may take that responsibility; but I shall take mine, God willing.