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At the outset, it must be confessed that while the fathers understood well the principles of architecture and created a natural, spontaneous style, meeting all obstacles of time and place which presented themselves, they showed little skill in matters of interior decoration, possessing neither originality in design, the taste which would have enabled them to become good copyists, nor yet the slightest appreciation of color-harmony.
'There, at least, lies one who was logical and brave, continued Sandoz; 'he confessed his powerlessness and killed himself. 'That's true, said Bongrand; 'if we didn't care so much for our skins we should all do as he has done, eh? 'Well, yes; since we cannot create anything, since we are but feeble copyists, we might as well put an end to ourselves at once.
As for the Racine school of writers, they were not out of the leading-strings of imitation cold copyists of a pseudo-classic, in which they saw the form, and never caught the spirit. What so little Roman, Greek, Hebrew, as their Roman, Greek, and Hebrew dramas?
I try to copy very exactly, but there are, unquestionably, now and then such slips as these in my quotations. And such mistakes were made by the copyists of the Old Scriptures. There are some instances of intentional changes.
Caesar and his copyists are silent as to the crossing of the river, because this would place in too clear a light the eagerness for battle of the Pompeians apparent otherwise from the whole narrative, and they are also silent as to the conditions of retreat favourable for these. III. VIII. Battle of Cynoscephalae
He also undertook the publishing of books, buying slaves who were skilled copyists; and in this, as in so many other ways, his friendship was of infinite value to Cicero.
The thought filled me with a rapture I cannot describe, and you witnessed my excitement. But, at all events, I saw that this was a truly tremendous departure from Greek art and thought, to which in general the copyists seemed to cling so religiously. There must therefore be a reason, a strong reason, for vandalism such as this.
When Abou Nokta plundered the harbours of Yemen, he carried off a great number of books, and sent them to Derayeh. There are at Cairo, at this time, not more than three professed copyists, who write a good hand, or who possess sufficient knowledge to enable them to avoid the grossest At Mekka, there was a man of Lahor, who wrote Arabic most beautifully, though he spoke it very indifferently.
Yet your deeds are such as cannot be concealed from the blind or the deaf. I may tell you at once, as you seem not to know it, that a man's hopes of the Imperial favour depend not on his book-bills, but on his character and daily life. Are you counting upon Atticus and Callinus, the copyists, to put in a good word for you?
It was devoted, like one or two others near it, to a line of famous paintings at once the hope and despair of young girl copyists.
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