30 Metaphors for copies

Many verses were published to celebrate her memory, amongst which a copy written by Mrs. Elizabeth Carter are the best.

We doubt if even Michel Angelo's copy of Dante was so great a loss as has sometimes been thought.

See ante, ii.82, note 2. Copy is manuscript for printing.

As I told Hephzibah, the little copy of La Rochefoucauld and the miniature of Ambrosine Eustasie are the only things of minemy ownthat are here, besides all my new books, of course.

A copy of the 1814 (quarto) edition of 'The Excursion', now in the possession of a grandson of the poet, the Rev. John Wordsworth, Gosforth Rectory, Cumberlandwhich was the copy Wordsworth kept at Rydal Mount for annotation and correction, much in the same way as he kept the edition of 1836-7has also been kindly sent to me by its present owner, for examination and use in this edition; and, in it, I have found some additional readings.

" This precious copy of the edition of 1836-7 is now the property of Lady Coleridge.

His copies of the Portland vase are miracles of skill; and the other specimens of similar works may give some idea of the many beautiful works that were produced in his manufactory.

Ptolemy very naturally thought that a copy of these sacred books would be a great acquisition to his library.

This copy of the rules, however, is the most complete, with the fullest explanations.

This copy, and another in the Chetham Library at Manchester, are the only ones known with the following {39} imprint: 'Copland in Fletestrete, at the signe of the Rose Garland.'

It may be an error to fancy that the copy of Cartwright now in my hands, containing the cancelled and uncancelled leaves, is a rarity; but although in my time I have inspected at least thirty copies of his Comedies, Tragi-Comedies, with other Poems, I certainly never met with one before with this peculiarity.

Jack seemed to know his "Cyrano" so well that a copy could be only a prompt.

Instead of going out of our own complectional Nature into that of others, twere a better and more laudable Industry to improve our own, and instead of a miserable Copy become a good Original; for there is no Temper, no Disposition so rude and untractable, but may in its own peculiar Cast and Turn be brought to some agreeable Use in Conversation, or in the Affairs of Life.

But it is impossible to enumerate, in this hasty notice, all the arduous undertakings of the students: suffice it to say, that they have gained another step towards pictorial fame, and that their copies, from the works of Rubens, Wouvermans, Murillo, Canaletti, Titian, &c., are honourable testimonies of their exertion to excel.

Occasionally a second Life is found differing essentially from the first, but, as a rule, the different copies are only recensions of a single original.

Scott dashed off some of his long romances in six weeks; while Stevenson said that his printer's copy was sometimes the result of ten times that amount of writing.

The goldsmith naturally wanted to take the measurements of our fingers, but this Uncle John would not hear of; the rings were to be exact copies, and an exact copy must be the same size as the original.

Lamb's copy was a folio, 1617, 12, 17, 13.

A copy of the Magna Charta, a suit of mediaeval armour, several rusty helmets (Cromwellian and otherwise), antlers of several kinds of deer, and a variety of old swords, pistols, and guns were the objects that chiefly attracted my attention.

A notice, a copy of which is hereto attached, has been served on the said Margaret Burnham, warning her that application will be made to the Orphans' Court, on this day, at this hour, for the appointment of a guardian for the boy Ralph.

"Yes," the Frenchman said at last, "the copy they have in Athens is exactword for word.

My copy is from the same source as the Latin version by Lloyd: "Il Bronzo vespertin con flebil rombo.

A Copy of Verses written by Mr. John Tateham is the Introduction to the Mask, at the Entry whereof the Reader will find an Explanation of the Design alluding to the Four Seasons of the Year.

G. Brown's copy is a "complete edition," printed partly in 1517, and partly in 1518.

A copy of Keats which I have by me as I write is a memorial of one of the pretty loves typical of that period.

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