plagiary

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In fact, like Sir Fretful Plagiary in the Critic, Bozzy was so covetous of popularity that he would rather be abused than be not mentioned at all.

From James Boswell Famous Scots Series by Leask, W. Keith (William Keith)

If ever an Author was a Plagiary, he was.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

To which is added, An Advertisement about the late Irregular Reviving of this Tragedy; with a Copy of Verses to the Plagiary.

From A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 1 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe by Various

Sheridan caricatured him as Sir Fretful Plagiary, in the "Critic."

From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1 by Burney, Fanny

Like Sir Fretful Plagiary, Herrick had not skill to steal with taste.—R.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham