PLAGIARISM PLAGIARISM
Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerent. Perish those who said our good things before we did. Aelius Donatus, according to St. Jerome—Commentary on Ecclesiastes. Ch. I. Referring to the words of Terence.
When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies, Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life." Emerson—Letters and Social Aims. Quotation and Originality. </poem>
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It has come to be practically a sort of rule in
literature, that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.
Emerson—Shakespeare.
He that readeth good writers and pickes out
their flowres for his own nose, is lyke a foole.
Stephen Gosson—In the School of Abuse.
Loyterers.
When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre,
He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea;
An' what he thought 'e might require,
'E went an' took—the same as me.
Ktpijng—Barrack-Room Ballads. Iniroducj
turn.
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| text = <poem>My books need no one to accuse or judge you:
the page which is yours stands up against you
and says, "You are a thief."
Martial—Epigrams. Bk. I. Ep. 53.
Why, simpleton, do you mix your verses with
mine? What have you to do, foolish man, with
writings that convict you of theft? Why do you
attempt to associate foxes with lions, and make
owls pass for eagles? Though you had one of
Ladas's legs, you would not be able, blockhead,
to run with the other leg of wood.
Martial—Epigrams. Bk. X. Ep. 100.
For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not
bettered by the borrower, among good authors is
accounted plagiary.
Mn/roN—Iconoclastes. XXIII.
Je reprends mon bien ou je le trouve.
I recover my property wherever I find it.
Moltere. Cyrano de BERGERAC*incorporated a scene confidentially communicated to
him by Moliere, in his Pedant Jour. II . 4 .
Moliere taking possession, used it in his
Les Fourberies de Scapin. Emerson—Letters and Social Aims, attributes the mot to
Marmontel.
Les abeilles pillotent deea dela les fleurs; mais
elles en font aprez le miel, qui est tout leur; ce
n'est plus thym, ny marjolaine: ainsi les pieces
empruntees d'aultruy, il les transformera et confondra pour en faire un ouvrage tout sien.
The bees pillage the flowers here and there
but they make honey of them which is all
their own; it is no longer thyme or marjolaine:
so the pieces borrowed from others he will
transform and mix up into a work all his own.
Montaigne—Essays. Bk. I. Ch. XXV.
Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad
if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for
some new service.
Montaigne—Essays. Of Physiognomy.
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| text = <poem>He liked those literary cooks
Who skim the cream of others' books;
And ruin half an author's graces
By plucking bon-mots from their places.
Hannah More—Florio, the Bos Blue.
Take the whole range of imaginative literature,
and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every
matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty
or form, we are borrowers.
Wendell Phillips—Lecture. The Lost Arts.
Leurs ecrits sont des vois qu'ils nous ont faits
d'avance.
Their writings are thoughts stolen from us
by anticipation.
Piron—La MMromanie. III. 6.
Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll,
In pleasing memory of afl he stole;
How here he sipp'd, how there he plunder'd snug,
And suck'd all o'er like an industrious bug.
| author = Pope
| work = Dunciad.
| place = Bk. I. L. 127.
With him most authors steal their works, or buy;
Garth did not write his own Dispensary.
| author = Pope
| work = Essay on Criticism. L. 618.
The seed ye sow, another reaps; v
The wealth ye find, another keeps:
The robes ye weave, another wears:
The arms ye forge another bears.
Shelley—To the Men of England.
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| text = <poem>Steal!—to be sure they may; and egad, serve
your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,
disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.
R. B. Sheridan—The Critic. Act I. Sc. 1.
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| text = <poem>Libertas et natale solum.
Fine words! I wonder where you stole 'em.
Swift. Upon Chief Justice Whitshed's
Motto for his coach. (1724)
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| text = <poem>Nullum est jam dictum quod non dictum sit
primus.
Nothing is said nowadays that has not been
said before.
Terence—Eunuchus. Prologue. XLI. As
quoted by Donatus. See Warton—E
on Pope. Note I. P. 88. Ed. 1806.
| seealso = (See also Donatus)
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{{Hoyt quote
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| text = <poem>Hos ego versiculos feci, tulit alter honores
Sic vos non vobis nidificatis aves:
Sic vos non vobis vellera fertis oves:
Sic vos non vobis melhficatis apes:
Sic vos non vobis fertis aratra boves.
