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In an advertisement prefixed to some verses which he calls Imitations of Shakspeare, he informs the reader that the first of them was just finished when Thomson's Winter made its appearance.
Lives of the English Poets Cary, Henry F 1846
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Part of Coleridge's contribution would come from his proposed Imitations from the Modern Latin Poets, which never materialized although advertisements would find their way into Benjamin Flower's The
Introduction 2007
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And in the Number for May following are "Imitations from the Greek" and Italian, all under this same signature.
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Imitations from the modern Latin Poets, with a critical and biographical Essay on the Restoration of Literature: a work in which we most heartily wish him success.
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Robert Allen’s poem was possibly going to be included in Coleridge’s unrealised ‘Imitations from the Modern Latin Poets’, advertised in 1794.
Letter 96 1794
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Coleridge’s projected — but unrealised — subscription volume, ‘Imitations from the Modern Latin Poets’, which had been advertised in the Cambridge Intelligencer on 14 June 1794.
Letter 94 1794
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We have the Imitations, which is a fabulous local dance band.
WWAY NewsChannel 3 - Local News, Weather and Sports for Wilmington, NC and the Cape Fear Region 2008
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Preferable to both, no doubt, are the "Imitations" of Pope, which do not aim at literal transference, but work, as does his yet more famous
Horace William Tuckwell 1874
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But this tendency to a strict adherence to the laws of Israel disappeared early in the provincial period, under the operation of the same causes which led to the abandonment of those rugged metaphrases of the Psalms of David, and of the song of Deborah and Barak, &c., contained in the Bay Psalm-Book, for the smoother though less literal version of Tate and Brady and the presumptuous "Imitations" of Dr. Watts.
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University's control -- and, hiring lodgings there for myself and wife, finish my great work of "Imitations" in two volumes.
Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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