43 Metaphors for originals

The original is in "Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia," vol. iii.

The original is, "jis Ki itni ta'rif aur ishtiyak zahir kiya," where the word kiya agrees with ishtiyak only, being the noun nearest.

The great original of all this work is that colossal last unfinished book of Flaubert, "Bouvard et Pécuchet."

The original of this character was Munro, who wrote an account of the campaigns of that band of Scotch and English auxiliaries in the island of Swinemünde, in 1630.

The originals number ten: there is also a cast of the equestrian statue of Gattemalata at Padua, which is, I suppose, next to Verrocchio's Bartolommeo Colleoni at Venice, the finest equestrian statue that exists; heads from various collections, including M. Dreyfus' in Paris, although Dr. Bode now gives that charming example to Donatello's pupil Desiderio; and various other masterpieces elsewhere.

Before I quote it, perhaps I may remind the ladies that the original is an epigram in the Greek Anthology, and that it was written by the great Alexandrian poet Callimachus on hearing the news that his dear friend, the poet Heraclitusnot to be confounded with the philosopherwas dead.

The original of this country village, which is given over to spinsters, is undoubtedly Knutsford, in Cheshire, where Mrs. Gaskell had spent her childhood.

Most original of all is Mäzli, probably not over six, as she is too young to go to school.

The original of this rambling talker was Gahagan, whose method of conversation is thus burlesqued: Aircastle: "Did I not tell you what parson Prunello said?

"No mechanical copying of Greek statues, however skilful the copyist, can ever secure for modern sculpture the same noble and effective character it possessed among the Greeks, for the simple reason that the imitation, close as may be the resemblance, is but the result of the eye and hand, while the original is the expression of a true and deeply felt sentiment.

The first Original of the Drama was a Religious Worship consisting only of a Chorus, which was nothing else but an Hymn to a Deity.

The original is a MS.

The great original of this school of fiction was Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto, 1765; an absurd tale of secret trap-doors, subterranean vaults, apparitions of monstrous mailed figures and colossal helmets, pictures that descend from their frames, and hollow voices that proclaim the ruin of ancient families.

The original is, "Quì vive la pietà quand' è ben morta.

The original of this character was the Earl of RochesterG. Etherege, The Man of Mode or Sir Fopling Flutter (1676).

The original of all the cabbage tribe is the wild plant sea-colewort, which is to be found wasting whatever sweetness it may have on the desert air, on many of the cliffs of the south coast of England.

But the original is the thing.

I cannot cast you a flywheel for a factory engine; so will try at something smaller, and will reproduce a medallion portrait of Her Majesty, in cast iron, the original of which is silver, commonly valued at half a crown.

The original was Theodosia, the daughter of Aaron Burr.

On the other hand, if we are to take the Lucan form as nearer to the original, that original must have been a singular agglomeration of fragments which it is difficult to piece together.

The original is n'ayant pas le pié marin, not having a sailors foot.

It seemed to my imagination as if the portrait had grown womanly, and the original had remained a child.

They said, moreover, that he had made many pilgrims princes, though by nature they were beggars born, and their original had been the dunghill.

The original of this character was Hewson, a one-eyed cobbler and preacher, who was also a colonel in the Rump army.

The original and predominant errour of his commentary is acquiescence in his first thoughts; that precipitation which is produced by consciousness of quick discernment; and that confidence which presumes to do, by surveying the surface, what labour only can perform, by penetrating the bottom.

43 Metaphors for  originals