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These poems show a careful and minute observation of nature, but their versification still reminding us of the imitators of Pope has little originality or charm. They attracted the admiration of Coleridge, but had no further success.
In point of architectural style the Romans of this date who in artistic matters were but imitators of the Greeks and far less certain in taste than their masters affected the Corinthian, as being the most florid. Even this they could not leave in its native purity, but for the most part converted it into Graeco-Roman or composite varieties.
He was a man we, indeed, deserve to be despised, who hate the author of the actions, but uphold the actions themselves. XXXVIII. Why need I mention the countless mass of papers, the innumerable autographs which have been brought forward? writings of which there are imitators who sell their forgeries as openly as if they were gladiators' playbills.
This evil, we believe, is to be directly ascribed to the influence of the historians whom we have mentioned, and their modern imitators. Livy had some faults in common with these writers. But on the whole he must be considered as forming a class by himself: no historian with whom we are acquainted has shown so complete an indifference to truth.
No tale produced during the present century has probably had so extensive a circulation; and the leading character in it has found admirers everywhere and at times imitators. Of this latter statement a striking illustration is given in the memoirs of Gisquet, a prefect of the French police under Louis Philippe.
You can always see him behind his stolen mask. The actress takes a different rank. This one does, anyway." "You're mixing her up with the apes and the monkeys," remarked Surgeon-Major Livingstone. "Mere imitators!" cried Mrs. Barberry. Alicia did not allow the argument to pursue her. She smiled upon their energy and, so to speak, disappeared.
This severe satire, together with the good sense of the nation, corrected, after some time, the extravagancies of the fashionable wit; but the productions of literature still wanted much of that correctness and delicacy which we so much admire in the ancients, and in the French writers, their judicious imitators.
It is the way of imitators to appropriate the faults of their model sooner and easier than its excellences, since the former offer handles and tokens more easily grasped; and thus we see that imitators of Nature in this sense have imitated oftener, and even more affectionately, the ugly than the beautiful.
For my own part, when I speak of the Venetian painters, I wish to be understood to mean Paulo Veronese and Tintoret, to the exclusion of Titian; for though his style is not so pure as that of many other of the Italian schools, yet there is a sort of senatorial dignity about him, which, however awkward in his imitators, seems to become him exceedingly.
These two great writers had numerous followers and imitators in all countries, and every nation can point out some more or less successful writer in that field, but who never attained the great success of Sienkiewicz, whose works are translated into many languages, even into Russian, where the antipathy for the Polish superior degree of civilization is still very eager.
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