He treads in a rule, and one hand scans verses, and the other holds his sceptre. He dare not think a thought, that the nominative case governs not the verb; and he never had meaning in his life, for he travelled only for words. His ambition is criticism, and his example Tully. He values phrases, and elects them by sound, and the eight parts of speech are his servants. To be brief, he is the heteroclite for he wants the plural number, having only the single quality of words.
- Sir Thomas Overbury
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