Read full poem →out. The verses tell us that he acknowledged all he had to be owing to Jonson, there is no
doubt therefore of his imitating Jonson*s manner in these comedi(fS. Shirley in the first folio»
and the publisher of the second folio, both agree in making the Nice Valour one of these
Dictionary Entry
To follow as a model or a pattern; to make a copy, counterpart or semblance of.
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Common Phrases
. imitating
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Poetry examples for “imitating”
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Read full poem →And daily strut the street with bows and scrapes,
Who would be men by imitating apes.
I beg your pardon, reader, for the oath
Read full poem →makes game of the rest. The short story has become vapid because sixty
thousand story writers have all set themselves to imitating De
Maupassant, perhaps a thousand from the original.
Read full poem →And all the sparkling stones of various hue;
And parrots, imitating human tongue,[28]
And singing-birds in silver cages hung;
Read full poem →from the blighting yoke of a husband whose life consisted
in imitating defunct mediaeval customs. An old gipsy is
the agency that awakens her to the joy and freedom of