Word: earliest
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Loose thinking upon many subjects is one of the earliest symptoms of Sir Galahad's fall. So many of his boyish beliefs in things both natural and spiritual have to be abandoned as no longer tenable in the clear light of reason, that our knight gets very dainty about defending anything old at all. The argument of a laugh is not easily answerable in college society. It is, moreover, easier to profess pity for blind bigotry than to reason honestly. And students are proverbially lazy...
...northward, where the earliest rays...
...meagre description of the collection would be a fruitless task; every one who is interested in art ought to examine it for himself and pass judgment upon it; still, we may mention here two gems of the collection. One is an engraving by Baccio Baldini, one of the very earliest Italian engravers, born in 1437. It is a unique impression of a circular silver plate about four inches in diameter; one of a set of twenty-four, described in books as bought in Florence over a hundred years ago, and which were for many years the glory of the Otto...
...other is a fine specimen of the skill of "The Master E. S., 1466," the earliest-known German engraver. Hardly known either, for it is uncertain what his family name was, and it is only supposed that he was the first to use a rolling press and make copper-plate engraving his occupation...
...these are only two of the very earliest, while every school and age has some representatives in the collection. As Mr. Gray was particularly interested in those painters who engraved their own works, the collection is particularly rich in the works of Albrecht Durer, Rembrandt, and other peintres-graveurs. There are also impressions of all the finest of Raphael's drawings, done on copper by Raimondi, and under Raphael's own supervision...