It is true that Homer is sometimes found nodding, and the right-hand of the greatest master may forget its cunning, but would George Eliot in her most abject moments have been capable of penning such a sentence as this in connection with Goethe?
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind
The process of the lover writing a letter involves the same imaginative function as of the poet penning a love poem.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
The refutation of these paltry objections is so simple, that any little child could give it, and none but an infidel would need to hear it, we therefore refrain from penning it.
"Theological Essays"
Charles Bradlaugh