Copyism

Russian workmen, however, are employed as mechanics or machines, partly because in copyism and mechanism Russian artisans cannot throughout ❋ Various (N/A)

College and Hall: every 'Oxford man,' to adopt the well-known name, is subdued into sameness within and without, controlled as it were into copyism and mediocrity by the smoothing-iron of the nineteenth century. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

For that which is prepared for private persons, to be kept under cover, will, of necessity, degenerate into the copyism of past work, or merely sensational and sensual forms of present life, unless there be a governing school addressing the populace, for their instruction, on the outside of buildings. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)

When we begin to teach children writing, we force them to absolute copyism, and require absolute accuracy in the formation of the letters; as they obtain command of the received modes of literal expression, we cannot prevent their falling into such variations as are consistent with their feeling, their circumstances, or their characters. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)

Such fall is the inherent and inevitable penalty on all absolute copyism; and wherever the copy is made with sincerity, the fall must be endured with patience. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)

Apply it to modern Greek architecture, and that architecture must cease to exist; for it depends absolutely on copyism. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)

I certainly never intended to copy him; but, if there be any copyism, it must be in the two poems, where the same versification is adopted. ❋ Thomas Moore (1815)