The greatest charm of conversation is the mimetic part of it,the character that is manifested, be it never so little.

A peculiar skill seems to have been developed among writers during the last twenty yearsthat of writing in the manner of some master, not merely with mimetic cleverness, but with genuine creative power.

In the same place, however, we found a striking example of genuine protective or mimetic coloration and shape.

For the drama had developed out of the lyric ode, and retained throughout what was at first its only element, the dance and song of a mimetic chorus.

" To this account of the sepulchre I may add, that one principal part of the solemn rites referred to above consisted in depositing a consecrated wafer or, as at Durham Cathedral, a crucifix within its recessa symbol of the entombment of our blessed Lordand removing it with great pomp, accompanied sometimes with a mimetic representation of the visit of the Marys to the tomb, on the morning of Easter Sunday.

Delsarte, who from the laws of mimetics deduced for painters means of expressing correctly every impression and emotion which man can feel, taught nothing in regard to this special field of the landscape artist, who is not subject to the conditions of the actor, sculptor or orator.

I left the museum, then, where I had nothing more to learn; and, to observe living mimetics of the thumb, I went out on the promenade of the Tuileries thronged by aristocratic people.

In this case, the higher the voice rises the softer it must become; for there cannot be more than one culminating point in a musical phrase any more than in a logical or mimetic phrase.

Ah! wait a moment: I'll this mystery explore; It shall worry me no more!" Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a smirk and flutter, In there popped a perky Jackdaw, yapping, miauling as before (Queer mimetic noises made he), for no introduction stayed he,