Had any Roman Grammatist thus profited by the name of Varro or Quintilian, he would have been filled with constant dread of somewhere meeting the injured author's frowning shade!
"The Grammar of English Grammars"
Goold Brown
Thus every new Grammatist, has some grand absurdity or other, peculiar to himself; and what can be more gross, than to talk of English infinitives and participles as being in the possessive case?
"The Grammar of English Grammars"
Goold Brown
But he forgets two important circumstances: First, that I was quoting, not the bard, but the Grammatist; Second, that a writer uses brackets, to distinguish his own amendments of what he quotes, and not those of an other man.
"The Grammar of English Grammars"
Goold Brown