Olivarii Goldsmith, Poetae, Physici, Historici Qui nullum fere scribendi genus Non tetigit, Nullum quod tetigit non ornavit: Seu risus essent movendi, Sive lacrymae, Affectuum potens at lenis dominator: Ingenio sublimis, vividus, versatilis, Oratione grandis, nitidus, venustus: Hoc monumento memoriam coluit Sodalium amor, Amicorum fides, Lectorum veneratio.

Idcirco vt et alijs, qui vel antè me in partibus illis steterunt, vel ituri sunt, maneat locus narrandi siue scribendi, modum huius pono tractatus, potius decurtans

[Byron]; scribendi recte sapere et principium et fons [Lat.]

Phr. furor scribendi [Lat.].

Phr. furor scribendi [Lat.].

All the arts and tricks I have been mentioning are rendered superfluous if the author really has any brains; for that allows him to show himself as he is, and confirms to all time Horace's maxim that good sense is the source and origin of good style: Scribendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.

'Tis most true, tenet insanabile multos scribendi cacoethes, and "there is no end of writing of books," as the wiseman found of old, in this scribbling age, especially wherein "the number of books is without number," (as a worthy man saith,) "presses be oppressed," and out of an itching humour that every man hath to show himself, desirous of fame and honour (scribimus indocti doctique)

ad Petas. in regno Franciae omnibus scribendi datur libertas, paucis facultas.

Principibus et doctoribus deliberandum relinquo, ut arguantur auctorum furta et milies repetita tollantur, et temere scribendi libido coerceatur, aliter in infinitum progressura.

Legendi cupidiores, quam ego scribendi, saith Lucian. 4438.

It seems more than mere carelessness, or the occasional 'infausta tempora scribendi', can account for.

OLIVARII GOLDSMITH, Poetae, Physici, Historici, Qui nullum fere scribendi genus Non tetigit, Nullum quod tetigit non ornavit: Sive risus essent movendi, Sive lacrimae, Affectuum potens, at lenis, dominator: Ingenio sublimis, vividus, versatilis, Oratione grandis, nitidus, venustus: Hoc monumento memoriam coluit Sodalium amor, Amicorum fides, Lectorum veneratio.

This cacoethes scribendi is the pest of every local curiosity or public watering-place.

In these relations, grammar is an art; and as such, has long been defined, "ars rectè scribendi, rectèque loquendi" the art of writing and speaking correctly.

6. Lily says, "Grammatica est rectè scribendi atque loquendi ars;" that is, "Grammar is the art of writing and speaking correctly."

7. Melancthon says, "Grammatica est certa loquendi ac scribendi ratio, Latinis Latinè."

Vossius, "Ars benè loquendi eóque et scribendi, atque id Latinis Latinè."

Dr. Prat, "Grammatica est rectè loquendi atque scribendi ars."

ars rectè scribendi rectèque loquendi; poetarum enarrationem continens; omnium Scientiarum fons uberrimus.

All the arts I have cited above are superfluous if the writer really possesses any intellect, for it allows a man to show himself as he is and verifies for all time what Horace said: Scribendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.

'Scribendi rectè sapere est et principium et fons.' Hor.

Wednesday, August 18, 1714. 'Tenet insanabile multos Scribendi Cacoethes' Juv.