imitations

Ballantyne is severely critical on what he calls imitations of Mrs. Radcliffe in _Woodstock_.

The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford Walter Scott 1801

I know a lot of people have noticed that I've toned down my imitations from a couple of years ago.

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Spaniards have evolved these very national little pieces, and little has been lost in the non-existence of an indefinite number of imitations from the French.

The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia 1919

The poems of West, indeed, had the merit of chaste and manly diction, but they were cold, and, if I may so express it, only dead-coloured; while in the best of Warton's, there is a stiffness which too often gives them the appearance of imitations from the Greek.

A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886

Amsterdam, the only one of the country, continued to confine itself to translations or imitations from the French.

Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Anne C. Lynch Botta 1853

It contains no trace of the earliest poetry of the country, but the spirit of the troubadours is everywhere present; the occasional imitations from the Italian are more apparent than successful, and in general it is wearisome and monotonous, overstrained, formal, and cold.

Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Anne C. Lynch Botta 1853

The poems of West, indeed, had the merit of chaste and manly diction; but they were cold, and, if I may so express it, only dead-coloured; while in the best of Warton's there is a stiffness, which too often gives them the appearance of imitations from the Greek.

Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

My able assistant, Miss Emma, will now favor us with her bird-call imitations.

Caddie Woodlawn’s Family Carol Ryrie Brink 2000

My able assistant, Miss Emma, will now favor us with her bird-call imitations.

Caddie Woodlawn’s Family Carol Ryrie Brink 2000

Though his imitations are the cause of his notoriety, they are not the utterances upon which his true merit is based.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Various