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  • Tantum fremitum edebat, ut tonitru fragorem imitari videretur, tantamque,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Tantum quisque laudat, quantum se posse sperat imitari — a man will praise a thing only so far as he hopes to be able to imitate it himself.

    The Art of Literature 2004

  • Whereupon Strabo affirmeth this most truely to be spoken of them: Mortales tum demum Deum imitari, cum benefici fuerint.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • The translator of Averroës in 1481 used the word assimilatio; G. Fracastoro wrote in 1555 that it is irrelevant sive imitari, sive representare dicamus.

    MIMESIS W. TATARKIEWICZ 1968

  • Videas aliquando hominem aperto ore quasi intercluso habitu expirare, non cantare, ac ridiculosa quadam vocis interceptione quasi minitari silentium; nunc agones morientium, vel extasim patientium imitari.

    A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

  • Arma atque tela militaria ab Samnitibus, insignia magistratuum ab Tuscis pleraque [269] sumpserunt: postremo quod ubique apud socios aut hostes idoneum videbatur, cum summo studio domi exequebantur, imitari quam invidere bonis malebant.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • O Iane, a tergo quem nulla ciconia pinsit, nec manus auriculas imitari mobilis albas, nec linguae, quantum sitiat canis Apula, tantae.

    Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

  • [66] This passage is not in St. Paul, but it occurs in an old Church prayer which runs thus: Deus celsitudo humilium et fortitudo rectorum, qui per unigenitum Filium tuum ita mundum erudire dignatus es, ut omnis illius actio nostra, fieret instructio, excita in nobis Spiritus Tui fervorem, ut quod ille verbo et exemplo salubriter docuit nos efficaciter imitari valeamus.

    The Following of Christ. c. 1300-1361 1910

  • * Volunt omnes te (Jesu) frui at non ita et imitari; regnare cupiunt sed non compati.

    The Following of Christ. c. 1300-1361 1910

  • [67] Volunt omnes te (Jesu) frui at non ita et imitari; regnare cupiunt sed non compati.

    The Following of Christ. c. 1300-1361 1910

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