Blanc, Charles, 1813-1882 · New York : Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge [Mass.] : Riverside Press · leaf 266
owing us ideal forms and colors, makes usfor a moment believe, by force of the truth in hisfalsehoods, that these regions are those in which wehave always lived, these palaces belong to us, thesemountains looked down upon our birth; that thislanguage is ours, and these forms, these colors, cre-ated… … To engrave, is to draw by in-cision upon a hard body, stone,wood, or metal. This kind ofdrawing is very ancient; wefind many examples of it inEgyptian hieroglyphics, not tospeak of the seals that the citi-zens of Babylon carried upon their persons, and thering of Ulysses, upon which a dolphin was…
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