But this gentleman's manner was very intelligent; it was pleasant, quiet, assured, and very convincing.

Had the reader or I been there, he would have carried us with him, as he did his hearers; and as his successors carry the public with them now.
"Your brush is by no means destitute of talent, Mr.Triplet," said Mr.Snarl.

"But you are somewhat deficient, at present, in the great principles of your art; the first of which is a loyal adherence to truth.

Beauty itself is but one of the forms of truth, and nature is our finite exponent of infinite truth." His auditors gave him a marked attention.

They could not but acknowledge that men who go to the bottom of things like this should be the best instructors.
"Now, in nature, a woman's face at this distance--ay, even at this short distance--melts into the air.