Kate Newell Doggett Grammar of Painting and Engraving

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. For what delights can equal those That stir the spirit's inner deeps, When one who loves but knows not, reaps A truth from one who loves and knows. That Charles Blanc knows Of what he writes, no one will doubt who follows his eloquent pages in the original. The translator hopes that faithful study and an honest endeavor to preserve the inexorable clear ness Of the French idiom, will not so far have failed as to make him unwelcome in an English dress.