1
He reaped the advantage of having played "the sedulous ape" to his patrons of the studios.
2
I have thus played the sedulous ape to Hazlitt, to Lamb, to Wordsworth, to Sir Thomas Browne, to Defoe, to Hawthorne, to Montaigne.
3
Take Stevenson, for instance: he says he "played the sedulous ape." He studied the masterpieces of literature, and tried to imitate them.
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Some of them may have been millionaires; others were certainly no more than their sedulous apes.
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"The sedulous ape," he murmured.
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[Footnote 17: We know, at least, that he taught himself to write on the " sedulous ape" system, by imitating Bossuet and Fénelon.