原文 (英语)

EDWARD BULWER LYTTON (PLATE: “Thou art good and fair,” said Viola. Drawn by P. Kauffmann, etched by Deblois.) DEDICATORY EPISTLE First prefixed to the Edition of 1845 TO JOHN GIBSON, R.A., SCULPTOR. In looking round the wide and luminous circle of our great living Englishmen, to select one to whom I might fitly dedicate this work,—one who, in his life as in his genius, might illustrate the principle I have sought t