Meanings of mere copyist in English

I always kept a secretary to do whatever I considered mere copyist's work.

Even so, he was never a mere copyist.

He must not be a mere copyist.

Here was no mere copyist's work.

The faithful copyist, who is still a mere copyist, will give nine details of dull uninteresting colour and one of interesting.

Whether the city would afford me employment, as a mere copyist, sufficiently lucrative, was a point on which I possessed no means of information.

Some subsequent artists-merecopyists-havesought to consign this black hero to oblivion, but 'tis vain.

But these bands are not mere copyists.

Perhaps, as mere copyists, they escape the jealousy that might spring up between rival painters attempting to develop original ideas.

By some they are held to be mere copyists or translators of Greek books, and in no sense original investigators in medicine.

Mere copyist's painting, realistic reproduction, pure imitation, leave us cold because their author is a machine, a mirror, an iodized plate, and not a soul.