This practice of copying the latest accessible edition has been adopted by editors down to a very late period.
While the copying is full of blunders, this quarto is considered important, as indicating that the play was acted at first in a much shorter and less artistic version than the one which we now read.
Copying on the title-page the original date of 1600, however.
In Babylonia every great city had its collection of books, and scribes were kept constantly employed in it, copying and re-editing the older literature, or providing new works for readers.
Hence the copying of a text was often undertaken as a pious work, which brought down upon the scribe the blessing of heaven and even the remission of his sins.
He finished copying the parts, which must be learned and rehearsed, so that the play might be produced tomorrow night.
Standing on a ledge scarcely six inches wide, overlooking a giddy depth, and in a constrained and painful position, I had some difficulty in copying them.
I remained a week at Wan, chiefly engaged in copying the cuneiform inscriptions, and in examining its numerous remarkable monuments of antiquity.
I consider general copying a delusive kind of industry.
Her father, John Kaufmann, had been a sort of travelling painter, mending a picture here, copying one there, and painting signs for the public houses in the neighbourhood.
Still she went on, learning, copying the Old Masters' pictures, and teaching herself the old Italian art.
No one, not even a little child, would make such a botch of copying the alphabet as that," Cleek said, as he took the letter up and opened it.
I spent several days in the hermits' caves and in the ruined monasteries, copying such frescoes as were distinguishable, and reading the various titles above them.
On the other hand, we lament as a grievous failing his inability to draw real men and women, or indeed to differentiate his characters at all except by gross caricature or the copyingof traditional eccentricities.
Feargus, scribe and anchorite of Ross-ailithir, showing that the work of copying manuscripts was still continued in its schools.
Then he came down the hill and went straight to his cell, and sat there copying the psaltery.
The warlike Felim Mac Criffan retired to a hermitage a short time before his death to do penance for his many crimes; and he seems to have employed his leisure in copying MSS.
The work of copying in great part was certainly executed by Finn Mac Gorman, who was Bishop of Kildare from A.
He draws another when he says that the only remarkable thing he saw in this temple was one Plagius hard at work copying an eloquent passage from Tillotson's works to embellish his own.
The Devil on Cramond Sands l | (needs copyingabout half).
Ben leaned on the counter, copying the familiar manner he had noted in hotel guests.
But let him write them in copying ink and have the copies kept in different places.
Signora Carletti was copying parts of it in needlework, nor can I think that the original was ever better than the parts which she had already done.
Jerry had sat down beside a boy who was copying something which Jerry seemed to be reading to him, and various groups stood about, chatting.
A small circular revolving desk, at the left-hand corner of the larger desk, holds the work he is copying or referring to.
This is the very tower they are copying for the Provincetown monument.
The young people admired some of the old frescoes by Fra Angelico and Signorelli, and watched the priest copying the head of Virgil, one of several poets of the future life chosen to decorate one chapel.
There are always many peoplecopying in the galleries, especially in the Uffizi, and the other day we saw two sisters in their convent dress at work at easels.
I should write you a longer letter but I am very busy to-day copying and cannot spare the time so you must excuse it and all mistakes.
Melville’s sister Augusta seems to have been exhaustless in copying manuscript.
But she had succeeded in making it a matter of course that she should take her place at an early hour in the library and have work either of reading aloud or copying assigned her.
They were in animated discussion on some subject which was dropped when he entered, and Mary was copying the labels from a heap of shallow cabinet drawers, in a minute handwriting which she was skilled in.
He's quite new to this sort of work, you see, and I told him when he came the other day to begin copying the Peasant.
And then suddenly despair benumbed his fingers: it would be a profanity, were it not so grotesque to think of copying such a wonder.
I see you have got a sense of the importance of copying method," he said, "and I feel sure you will be able to produce an adequate copy of the Reynolds I have in mind.
His only doubt was whether it was not mere waste of time to give this youth more copying work to do.
And in none was there any sign of impatience: the Argus of eyes was drawn for a purpose; and till that purpose was achieved, it was evident that the artist was prepared to go on copying eyes until his own were dim.
None of all those who must have seen himcopying in the National Gallery had seen what those eyes of Philip IV.
He had lost his last pupil, a fat, unintelligent girl of thirteen, the daughter of a local chemist, and no one had sent him any copying work for a week.
Scribes were kept constantly at work there copying and re-editing old texts, and sometimes writing new ones.
I told him yes; so he put me to copyingsome documents, which I did to his satisfaction.
Next day I called at his quarters, and he put me to copying some documents and reports, which I did to his satisfaction.
