They were perfect in their art and unalike in their art.

No comparison between them can be justly drawn.

I was witness to the rise of all three of them, and have followed them in their greatest parts throughout their most brilliant and eminent and successful careers, and can say of each as of Mr.Jefferson: _More than King can no man be--Whether he rule in Cyprus or in Dreams._ There shall be Kings of Thule after kings are gone.

The actor dies and leaves no copy; his deeds are writ in water, only his name survives upon tradition's tongue, and yet, from Betterton and Garrick to Irving, from Macklin and Quin to Wyndham and Jefferson, how few!.