All the while he was himself writing prose and verse, in grasp if not in vigour as far beyond the stretch of Pope, as Pope is in "worth and wit and sense" removed above his mimics.

And Echo in the rocks laments that thou art silent, and no more she mimics thy voice.

Touched later by the black magic of development, bringing brick buildings, prohibition, picture shows, real-estate boosters, speculation and attendant evils or benefits as one chooses to classify them, they became neither elemental nor ethicalmere gawky mimics of both.

But yet, by this applause, we find These emulators of our kind Discern our worth, our parts regard, Who our mean mimics thus reward.'

which mimics reason's lore And oft transcends: heaven-taught, the roe-buck swift Loiters at ease before the driving pack And mocks their vain pursuit, nor far he flies But checks his ardour, till the steaming scent That freshens on the blade, provokes their rage.

But the sargasso itself is a curious instance of the fashion in which one form so often mimics another of a quite different family.

Thus military bodies have been ruined by mimicry of foreign arrangements quite inapplicable to the conditions of the mimics' country.

Jugglers and itinerary showmen.'Bara Roopes,' or actors and mimics.

Miss Gray, with her kitten eyes, is an actress, though she shows it not at all, and pupil to the former, whose gestures she mimics in comedy to the disparagement of her own natural manner, which is agreeable.

Being excellent mimics, they could imitate the howling of wolves, the neighing of horses, and the cries of birds, by which means they could approach travellers, rob them, and then fly to their rocky fastnesses in the mountains, where pursuit was vain.

Its humblest practitioners were the mimics or grimacers, in many-coloured garments, and brazen-faced mountebanks, who provoked laughter at the expense of decency.

He mimics her, pressing his hands to his sides and groaning.

" His light, agreeable, polished style pierces through the body of the courthits off the faded graces of "an Adonis of fifty", weighs the vanity of fashion in tremulous scales, mimics the grimace of affectation and folly, shews up the littleness of the great, and spears a phalanx of statesmen with its glittering point as with a diamond broach.

They were found to be great mimics, both in gesture and sound, and would repeat any word of our language, with great correctness of pronunciation.

[Mimics her while making a courtesy, and makes faces.

And it is needful to distinguish the fervid and strong spirits with whom the revival began from the mimics of our later day.

How he was to be found, neither the master nor his still angrier and more impatient mimics could ever tell us.

Vasari's and Cellini's criticisms of a master they both honestly revered, may suffice to illustrate the false method adopted by these mimics of Michael Angelo's ideal.

Of all that act, the hardest task is theirs, Who, bred no Players, play at being Players; Copy the shrugin Kemble once approved; Mere mimics' mimicsnature twice removed.

"To mimick, to imitate or ape for sport; a mimic, one who imitates or mimics."Ib.

* Which reminds one that more than a baker's dozen of modern comedians, so called, are nothing less than mimics.

The comedy was admirably acted throughout, Wilks, Cibber, and that prince of mimics, Dick Estcourt, being in the cast, and the seal of popular approval was quickly put upon the production.

There is a little simple farce at Drury Lane, called "Miss Lucy in Town," in which Mrs. Clive mimics the Muscovita admirably, and Beard, Amorevoli tolerably.

He asserts himself by enslaving others, and mimics Divinity on the stilts of diabolism.

The bold buffoon, whene'er they tread the green, Their motion mimics, but with jest obscene; Loose language oft he utters; but ere long A bark in filmy net-work binds his tongue; Thus changed, a base wild olive he remains; The shrub the coarseness of the clown retains.