Who hath seduced thee to this foul revolt } Milton Par. Lost. Bk. I
From the pure well of Beauty undefiled? } Somebody
So banished from true wisdom to prefer } Cowper’s Task, Book I
Such squalid wit to honourable rhyme?
To write? To scribble? Nonsense and no more? } Shakespeare
I will not write upon this argument } do.Troilus & Cressida
To write is human — not to write divine. } Pope Essay on Man
