The Grammar of Painting and Engraving - Translated From the French of Blanc's Grammaire Des Arts Du Dessin #227632

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.