C. S. Lewis first made kiddie lit a respectable field of study.
The repliche in a modern sculptor’s studio are scarcely to be distinguished from each other, and there would have been no difficulty in doing the same thing in an ancient sculptor’s studio. What is the fact known? So far from this being the case, not only are there comparatively very few repliche even of the most famous statues for which there would necessarily be a great demand, but even in the various repliche which we have there are not only no two which approach to identity either in attitude or size, but one can scarcely say in any one of them that the artist had more at best than a vivid recollection of the original or of some other replica, much less that he had it before him to copy even by eye.[…]Look for instance at the Venus of the Capitol and the Venus de Medici and the St. Petersburg Venus,—they are all repliche of the renowned statue by Praxiteles; but beyond the general attitude there is no resemblance, not so much as any clever artist of to-day could make from mere recollection.[…]Again, why should not the great artists themselves, or their scholars, have made repliche of their famous statues?
Art. 24—To see what action the town will take in relation to breaking out highways and what portion of the road money, if any, shall be reserved for this purpose.
This employment was very irksome to him in every respect, […] Mr. Hector recollects his writing 'that the poet had described the dull sameness of his existence in these words, Vitam continet una dies (one day contains the whole of my life); that it was unvaried as the note of the cuckow; and that he did not know whether it was more disagreeable for him to teach, or the boys to learn, the grammar rules.'
