So are many people mere unthinking imitators, blind to facts and opportunities about them.

The poor are not quite such servile imitators as they take them for.

To any one observing us at this time it would have seemed that I was but a hanger-on, and a feeble imitator of Marshall.

Unquestionably he is the greatest of Shakespeare's successors in the romantic drama, perhaps his only direct imitator.

He had taken particular pains to notice just how old Jesse Wilcox did this sort of thing, and, being a clever imitator, he managed to succeed after a fashion.

Whoever he was, he shows more disposition than most of his fellow imitators to preserve Spenser's archaisms.

Her example has been followed by numberless imitators, and now, instead of presuming (as was the habit formerly) that those only receive who are rich enough to do so, it is constantly inquired, when any one in Paris opens his or her house, whether he or she is ruined, and whether the soirées given are meant merely to throw dust into people's eyes.

He was not only a professed imitator of HORACE, but a learned plagiary of all the others.

Like all "natural geniuses" Goethe begins as an imitator, dependent upon others; for the poet also must first learn to speak and to walk.

And then if, after a long time, the new comer really succeeds, by a hard struggle, in vindicating his place for himself and winning reputation, he will soon encounter fresh difficulty from some affected, dull, awkward imitator, whom people drag in, with the object of calmly setting him up on the altar beside the genius; not seeing the difference and really thinking that here they have to do with another great man.

Boswell, the faithful imitator of his master in this respect, delighted in taking up the parable.

At the same time that Jesus Christ, in the sacrament of His body, repeats His holy passion in a manner altogether mysterious, men, the false imitators, or rather base corrupters of the works of God, have found means to renew this same passion, not only in a profane, but in a criminal, sacrilegious, and horrible manner!

They became again like the ancient Romans, gigantic imitators and clever copyists, instead of inspired kings and priests of a national development.

but she was so loud in his praise for covering her gross imitators with confusion, that Bachaumont and Chapelle, two of her intimate friends, ventured to introduce the young dramatist into her society.

Who, as he was a happie imitator of Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it.

The three eclogues at any rate bear evidence of coming from the same pen, and the following lines show that the writer was no incompetent imitator, and at the same time argue some genuine feeling:

But he spoilt his vehicle by a careless diffuseness, by a violent categorical tendency, and by other faults which may be called faults of breeding rather than faults of arta ghastly volubility, an indiscretion, a lust for description rather than suggestion; and thus he has numbered no followers, and only a few inconsiderable imitators.

Sprat, and an host of inferior imitators, marched for a time in the footsteps of Cowley; delighted, probably, to discover in Pindaric writing, as it was called, a species of poetry which required neither sound nor sense, provided only there was a sufficient stock of florid and extravagant thoughts, expressed in harsh and bombastic language.

The great masters had innumerable imitators, not merely in the representation of man but of animals.

All is spontaneous; the spirit is not that of a laborious imitator, painfully seeking "effects" from another's inspiration; sincerity and naïveté are too apparent for this to be the work of any but a quite young artist, and one whose style is so thoroughly "Giorgionesque" as to be none other than the young Giorgione himself.

The ludicrous imitators of Johnson's style are innumerable.

Correggio, again, though he can hardly be said to have founded a school, was destined to exercise wide and perilous influence over a host of manneristic imitators.

Perhaps he wouldn't have done anything at all; he might have become, at best, a mediocre imitator of the great masters in what they have already done to a finish, or one of the modern innovators who strive after originality by seeing how cleverly they can dodge about through the rules of harmony and at the same time avoid melody.

The most noted imitator of this class was Micheli of Florence.

Birds imitate the songs of their parents, and sometimes of other birds; and parrots are notorious imitators of any sound which they often hear.