I had leave to copy a picture in his gallery.

Learn hence for ancient rules a just esteem; To copy nature is to copy them.

Can you wonder that Tommy understood, and, understanding, copied this example?

Al Hakem, Caliph of Cordova, famous as a patron of literature and learning, and who is said to have collected a library of 600,000 volumes, employs agents in Africa and Arabia to purchase or copy manuscripts.

Orm generally doubled the consonant after a short vowel, and insisted that any one who copied his work should be careful to do the same.

"Phil blasphemed like a Levant skipper when he copied those Italian words!" laughed Chater.

So we'll accept, won't we, Hylton?" "Certainly," replied the other; and then we began chatting about the peril of the previous night, Hornby telling me how he had copied the two letters of thanks in Italian and sent them to their respective addresses.

There was a red haze of horror and confusion in front of her eyes, and yet she was able to smile while she copied the note for Joe Rix.

Do what he will, he cannot escape from the infirmities of his own mind: the affectation, arrogance, ostentation, hesitation, native in the man will taint his style, no matter how closely he may copy the manner of another.

[Illustration: {Silkworm on mulberry leaf}] 2. Copy this little drawing of the silkworm and the mulberry leaf.

Indeed, it is in proportion as we accurately copy the faultless models of the age of Pericles that excellence with us is attained and recognized; when we differ from them we furnish grounds of just criticism.

I know he regarded it as miserably inefficient; but as it does actually indicate some of the more individual side of his experience, and is, moreover, characteristic in its style, I shall copy a few passages from it here: 'To some person or persons unknown exceeding gratitude for the suggestion, in some dim talk, antenatal it would almost seem, that Roman Catholics might, after all, be "saved."

There are always artists copying parts of it, particularly one group, where a lovely, fair-haired woman is falling out of a litter backward.

At that time I was making my living by copying law papers.

In the Appendix I have copied this act correctly from the original in the possession of Thomas Lloyd, Esq.

He has also copied the character of my Mignon in one of his romances; but whether with equal judgment, is another question.

"It's this," she said in an uncertain voice: "sometimes wewegirls here in Niggertown copy the wrong thing first.

Let Johnson teach me how to place In fairest light each borrowed grace, From him I'll learn to write; free and easy Copy his clear and easy style, clear And from the roughness of his file, familiar like Grow as himselfpolite.'

if, after so many lessons from proficients in the art, who drive the business by wholesale, they should not occasionally copy their betters, fall into the fashion, and try their hand in a small way, at a practice which is the only permanent and universal business carried on around them!

" I have copied this account of Paddy Flynn, with a few verbal alterations, from a note-book which I almost filled with his tales and sayings, shortly after seeing him.

He was taught to read by an aunt; and learned to write, without a master, by copying printed books.

When they agreed with respect to the laws, and differed only in regard to the proposer, ambassadors were sent to Athens, Spurius Postumius Albus, Aulus Manlius, Publius Sulpicius Camerinus, who were ordered to copy out the celebrated laws of Solon, and to make themselves acquainted with the institutions, customs, and laws of the other states of Greece.

The clerk began copying his records.

They even copy lines almost word for word from their great master.

I don't half know my geometry and I shall have to copy my composition in school.