Like many contemporaries he was reading old authors and turned them to account in a way which exposed him to the charge of plagiarism.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
If there were no question of morals involved, plagiarism is nevertheless most perilous.
"Around The Tea-Table"
T. De Witt Talmage
It was the fashion when Punch was young for the comic papers to indulge in fierce recrimination and bitter charge and counter-charge of plagiarism.
"The History of "Punch""
M. H. Spielmann