text:  A man of genius who calls up princes and heroes from the dust into which they have crumbled may delight us with a more admirable representation than our own minds could have furnished of some one whose name we have long known and of whose personal bearing and habits and daily thoughts we had but a vague and misty idea; and acknowledging the fidelity of the portrait we may adopt it; and then this historical person becomes to us what the imagination of genius not what history has made him and yet the portrait is probably one in which no contemporary could have recognized any resemblance to the original