Imitator

Examples

• First, he says that the poet or painter is an imitator, and in the third degree removed from the truth. Plato. The Republic.
• And the tragic poet is an imitator, and therefore, like all other imitators, he is thrice removed from the king and from the truth? Plato. The Republic.
• I think, he said, that we may fairly designate him as the imitator of that which the others make. Plato. The Republic.
• Louis XV was the great-grandson of Louis XIV, and an incompetent imitator of his predecessor's magnificence. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I should prefer only to admit the pure imitator of virtue. Plato. The Republic.
• But will the imitator have either? Plato. The Republic.
• Suppose now that by the light of the examples just offered we enquire who this imitator is? Plato. The Republic.
• And the tragic poet is an imitator, and, like every other imitator, is thrice removed from the king and from the truth. Plato. The Republic.
• Thus far then we are pretty well agreed that the imitator has no knowledge worth mentioning of what he imitates. Plato. The Republic.
• That was the scheme of one man, an imitator without genius or merit. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The mockers and mocked always inhabit the same region; we never find an imitator living remote from the form which it imitates. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Good, I said; then you call him who is third in the descent from nature an imitator? Plato. The Republic.
• Then about the imitator we are agreed. Plato. The Republic.
• His new imitator would come back from Egypt and India--Egypt and India were to be his Gaul. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Once more, the imitator has no knowledge of reality, but only of appearance. Plato. The Republic.
• And the tragic poet is an imitator, and therefore, like all other imitators, he is thrice removed from the king and from the truth? Plato. The Republic.
• But they did not; and therefore we may infer that Homer and all the poets are only imitators, who do but imitate the appearances of things. Plato. The Republic.
• Imitation is only a kind of play or sport, and the tragic poets, whether they write in Iambic or in Heroic verse, are imitators in the highest degree? Plato. The Republic.
• Imitation, then, is devoid of knowledge, being only a kind of play or sport, and the tragic and epic poets are imitators in the highest degree. Plato. The Republic.

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