Word: workmanship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with straight lines and equal spacings, the truth of the imagination far surpassing the truth of reality; and a play of Sophocles or an ode of Pindar is a literary structure to which the same painstaking care has been given. But in translation the effect of all this delicate workmanship is irretrievably lost. He who is content to study the classics in translation alone will be content to regard as Doric temples the post-office buildings, with column drums slushed in mortar, which the Government has recently been depositing throughout this country. Again he who is content to study...
Christopher Plantain was born in a village near Tours in 1514. He settled in Antwerp in 1549. Tradition affirms that he was first interested in typography as a result of a wounded arm. His workmanship earned for him a reputation as the best printer of his time. In 1562, while Plantain himself was absent, his workmen printed an heretical pamphlet, as a result of which his movable equipment was seized and sold. He succeeded in establishing a new press which was later destroyed by the Spaniards who plundered the town...