Crossword-Solution: COPIERS 7 letters, 18 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

When an original man or woman appears and all the strenuous effort to suppress him or her fails, straightway spring up a thousand imitators and copiers, and the individuality is lost in the school, the fashion, the craze.

The writings seemed to have a life of their own, independent of the scribes, who were believed to be only copiers of everlasting messages entrusted to them.

The indefatigable readers of books are like the everlasting copiers of pictures, who, when they attempt to do anything of their own, find they want an eye quick enough, a hand steady enough, and colours bright enough, to trace the living forms of nature.

Being not ignorant of Greek, and finding nothing in the word _eclogue_ of rural meaning, he supposed it to be corrupted by the copiers, and therefore called his own productions _Æglogues_, by which he meant to express the talk of goat-herds, though it will mean only the talk of goats.

The stile of Shakespeare was in itself ungrammatical, perplexed and obscure; his works were transcribed for the players by those who may be supposed to have seldom understood them; they were transmitted by copiers equally unskilful, who still multiplied errours; they were perhaps sometimes mutilated by the actors, for the sake of shortening the speeches; and were at last printed without correction of the press.