Weber heard it and used it in his "Freischuetz", without caring about the danger of being described as a plagiarist and a thief.
After that anyone who treated the author of "Tartufe" and "Le Misanthrope" as a plagiarist would have been very badly received.
It is in no wise to be a plagiarist to enrich one's language with the beauties of a foreign language.
The Court will not encourage a plagiaristor one who has made an illiberal use of another's work, even although he has not actually committed a piracy.
Sidenote: A Peculiar Case of Plagiary] Sometimes the plagiarist is far more daring in his thefts, taking as his own much greater things and more easily recognized ones than scrapbooks are apt to hold.
I was perhaps a little severe in my judgments of such things in those days, and when the plagiarist came back to learn the fate of his manuscript my language was of a kind that might have been regarded as severe.
