Art imitates by producing obscure and feeble imitations of nature's works, toys without value or merit; and besides, art makes use of a great battery of apparatus to produce these images.
We shall insist that there is a single Intelligence that is identical, and immutable, which imitates its Father so far as it can.
He that imitates by his hand a motion which he describes, explains it by natural similitude; he that lays his hand on his breast, when he expresses pity, enforces his words by a customary allusion.
VI Of the poetry which imitates in hexameter verse, and of Comedy, we will speak hereafter.
It clearly follows that the poet or 'maker' should be the maker of plots rather than of verses; since he is a poet because he imitates, and what he imitates are actions.
If the more refined art is the higher, and the more refined in every case is that which appeals to the better sort of audience, the art which imitates anything and everything is manifestly most unrefined.
Desor[54] has remarked that no animal voluntarily imitates an action performed by man, until in the ascending scale we come to monkeys, which are well-known to be ridiculous mockers.
In fine, you are the depositary of an art, which not only imitates the thunder, but is also much more terrible.
That there are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, a third which imitates them?
He will not bear with one who imitates the Women, even in sacrificing the Time, in order to acquire the Title of Modern.
He imitates Nature not as a whole, but as she presents herself to his eyes.
Art imitates Nature," says Aristotle, in a phrase that has been much misunderstood.
As for the poetry which merely narrates, or imitates by means of versified language (without action), it is evident that it has several points in common with Tragedy.
To say that tragedy 'imitates good men' while comedy 'imitates bad men' strikes a modern reader as almost meaningless.
We maintain that Tragedy is primarily an imitation of action, and that it is mainly for the sake of the action that it imitates the personal agents.
There is further an art which imitates by language alone, without harmony, in prose or in verse, and if in verse, either in some one or in a plurality of metres.
But has your rash objector ever lighted upon that rare larva which lives among the periwinkles, and exactlyimitates a periwinkle petal?
He goes on improving, if he can, what he imitatesin the way of style, and choosing from his own interpretation of the things around him what constitutes material.
Guilpin imitates one of Donne's Satyres, which may imply acquaintance.
Merry-Andrew imitates the Mountebank: He's like the Zani to a tumbler That tries tricks after him to make men laugh.
But the passage in Dante which Chaucer here especially imitates is that in Inf.
Gawain Douglas imitates this passage in his Palice of Honour; see his Works, ed.
Marcia is Dante's Marsia, mentioned in the very passage which Chaucer partly imitates in ll.
MOCK'ING-BIRD, a bird of North America, of the thrush family, which mocks orimitates the notes of birds and other sounds.
Perhaps Lucretius imitates in his work the poem of Empedocles, which bore the same title.
In form it is an imitation of Cicero's famous dialogue De Oratore, and the style also imitatesthat of Cicero.
He evidently imitates the style of Thucydides, and, like him, he introduces speeches and letters composed to suit the occasion on which they are supposed to have been delivered or written.
In telling of Medea's love for Jason, Ovid imitates to some extent the portrayal of her mental torments given by Apollonius of Rhodes,[83] and at the same time displays his own liking for rhetorical argument.
As the curtain rises, she imitates Trumpet Signal No.
She imitates the motions of a soldier on horseback, stepping down to rock at side of post; thence to ground and about stage, with the various curvettings of a spirited horse.
Like man he imitates each fashion, And malice is his ruling passion; But both in malice and grimaces, A courtier any ape surpasses.
The prince who imitates their conduct should be warned by their example, and, while he plumes himself upon the security of his title to the crown, should remember that, as it was acquired by one revolution, it may be lost by another.
He imitates nature, in dance, song, or in plastic art, for a definite practical purpose.
In mentioning the Snakes, the hand imitates the crawling motion of the serpent, and the fingers pointed up behind the ear denote the Wolves.
As Spiritualism more closely imitates the nominal Christianity of the day, it has greater power to deceive and ensnare.
The more nearly the Christian imitates the divine Pattern, the more surely will he make himself a mark for the attacks of Satan.
In this a politician imitates the devil, as the devil imitates a canon; wheresoever he comes to do mischief, he comes with his backside towards you.
One variety imitates amethystine quartz, but here, as elsewhere, rich combinations of colour, which can have no prototype among natural stones, are often introduced.
The mowing-machine repeats and imitates these sounds.
The schoolboy, wandering through the wood To pull the primrose gay, Starts, the new voice of spring to hear, And imitates thy lay.
The ancients were wont to say that he who cultivates music imitates the divinity, and St. Augustine tells us that it was the sweet sound of psalmody which made the lives of the monks of old so beautiful and harmonious.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "imitates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
