Such of his fellow-students as envied him the success of this discourse, and the admiration it procured him, employed their industry to trace him as a Plagiary; for they could not be persuaded that a youth seemingly so much removed from the appearance of genius, could compose a declamation, in which learning, genius, and judgment had a very great share.
"The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753),Vol. V."
Theophilus Cibber
144. The Reviewer does not in reality employ his pen for writing; but he burns it, to awaken weak people from their swoons with the smell; he tickles with it the throat of the Plagiary, to make him render back; and he picks with it his own teeth.
"The Campaner Thal and Other Writings"
Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
In this manner, from the humble beginnings of three volumes, in which the Plagiary much more than the contributor was visible, eight were at length built up with more durable materials, and which claim the attention and the gratitude of the student.
"Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3)"
Isaac Disraeli