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Now and then it takes a more violent form and becomes a real mania, as when the plagiarist openly claims and urges his right to a well-known piece of literary property. When Mr. William Allen Butler's famous poem of "Nothing to Wear" achieved its extraordinary popularity, a young girl declared and apparently quite believed that she had written it and lost the MS. in an omnibus.
The humour of the new composers is melancholy in its originality, but Gauguin has said that in art one must be either a plagiarist or a revolutionist. Satie is hardly a plagiarist, though the value of his revolution is doubtful.
Not mine, as were the ballads and the love-ode he chanted to the King last night! ... O Destiny! ... inscrutable, pitiless Destiny! ... rescue my tortured soul from chaos! ... declare unto me who, WHO is the plagiarist and thief of Song.. MYSELF or SAH-LUMA?"
"Faith," said this unconscious plagiarist of Tertullian, "is the power of saying you believe things which are incredible."
Suddenly there was a scuffle hard by me, and, turning round, I saw a powerful gentlemanly man wrestling with two others in livery, who were evidently intent on arresting him. These men, I at once perceived, belonged to the detective force of the Incorporated Society of Authors, and were engaged in the capture of a notorious plagiarist. I knew the prisoner well.
They may have gone to Hindoo philosophy, or rather, to second and third hand traditions thereof, for corroborations of the belief; but be sure, it must have existed in their own hearts first, or they would never have gone thither. Believe it; be sure of it. No earnest thinker is a plagiarist pure and simple.
Fine chaps; splendidly educated and perfect gentlemen when sober I quote from an uncredited quotation from a copy of an imitation of a celebrated plagiarist. Would go back there and stay and stay, only for the lady mother. She's used to the city.... By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept." "Hi!" said Ferdie. "Party yellin' at you from the road. Come out of your trance."
This ass had been reading the 'Jibbenainosay, no doubt, and had had his poor romantic head turned by it; but as I had not yet seen the book then, I took his inventions for truth, and did not suspect that he was a plagiarist. However, we had a Lynch living in the town; and the more I reflected upon his impending doom, the more I could not sleep.
"Not this time, however, friend Michael," observed M'Nicholl. "Oh! I'm a plagiarist, am I?" asked the Frenchman, pretending to be irritated. "Well, something very like it," observed M'Nicholl quietly.
"I've heard it said by the uncharitable that ye were a lackey before ye became a plagiarist. 'Tis a rumor I shall contradict in future; 'tis plainly a lie, for your voice betrays you to have been a chairman." "Sir sir " spluttered the poetaster, crimson with anger and mortification. "Is this is this seemly between gentlemen?" "Between gentlemen it would not be seemly," Mr. Caryll agreed. Mr.
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