I need not continue to give analyses of the Greek "poetes," the Latin "vates," or the Arabian "shair," for it has been usually conceded that these words all refer in their primary significance to the imaginative work, or ecstatic state of the author, and not to the mere dabbler in verse forms.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
Like Hughie, in a humbler sphere, he was a dabbler in many things,-lawyer, novelist, poet, trader, inventor, what not?
"Adrift in the Ice-Fields"
Charles W. Hall
She was little, a very little blue, rather a dabbler in the "ologies," than a real disciple.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)