plagiary

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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

Nature seem’d here to have play’d the Plagiary, and to have molded into Substance the most refined Thoughts of inspired Poets. 

From Incognita; or, Love and Duty Reconcil'd by Congreve, William

A Whimsical View of Plagiary I do not think this sort of thing is peculiar to Stockton's work.

From Recollections of a Varied Life by Eggleston, George Cary

He has therefore no reason to complain, and I dare say that, like Sir Fretful Plagiary, he is rather 'pleased' than otherwise.

From Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

The uneasy self-absorption which Sheridan immortalized in the character of Sir Fretful Plagiary in The Critic is apparent enough in this autobiography, but presents itself there in no offensive form.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various