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
Such squalid wit to honourable rhyme? (Cowper's Task, Book I)
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 pine. (Pope Essay on Man)
(1827)