It deserves especial praise for its accurate copying of nature, the varied beauty of its coloring, and the deep longing of the heartthe hunger of the soulwhich must have inspired the fair artist.

I go at 12, and find men at the room copying from my big papers: I lecture from 1 to 2, and stop till after 3, and through the last hour some men are talking to me and others are copying from the papers; and I usually leave some men still at work.

In one of those quaint antique towers of Normandy, Coutances, it was first fully developed; and it is curious to see how in this instance its roof-origin was still remembered: for it has tall, gabled garret-windows rising from its base, connected by rude cross-bars to the slope of the spire; and it has a kind of scaly mail, Ruskin says, which is nothing more than the copying in stone of the common wooden shingles of the house-roof.

He uses good language or bad according to the examples heard; in fact, nearly everything a child does is the result of copying after others.

He ran a day and night line, copying by sun-light and by candle-light.

Would you like to re-engage in copying for some one?"

" The days following his return to Rome were employed chiefly in copying at the Colonna Palace.

That he read much, we know, the Bible and Dante being constant companions; and we know also that in addition to modelling and copying under Bertoldo, he was assiduous in studying Masaccio's frescoes at the church of the Carmine across the river, which had become a school of painting.