Dialogue

1 Repub|   you not just now call them imitations? ~Yes, I did; and you are
2 Repub|     all these things are but imitations. ~They are so. ~And human
3 Repub|     the actions of which the imitations are copies. ~Quite true,
4 Repub|    Did you never observe how imitations, beginning in early youth
5 Repub| lives they are severally the imitations I am unable to say. ~Then,
6 Repub|    to you, that all poetical imitations are ruinous to the understanding
7 Repub|    works that these were but imitations thrice removed from the
8 Repub|      in realities and not in imitations; and would desire to leave
9 Repub|   goodness or badness of his imitations? ~I suppose not. ~The imitative