Citations:calamist


 * 1799, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Letter the Second", in The Life of S.T. Coleridge: The Early Years, by Lawrence Hanson, page 504:
 * Most exquisite Benefactor!—I will speak dirt & daggers of the Wretch who shall deny thee to be the most heaven-inspired, munificent Penmaker that these latter Times, these superficial, weak, and evirtuate ages have produced—to redeem themselves from ignominy! And may he, great Calamist! who shall vilipend or derogate from thy penmaking merits, do penance & suffer penitential penalty, penn'd up in some penurious peninsular of penal Fire & penetrant Fire, pensive and pendulous, pending a huge slice of Eternity!—Were I to write till Pentecost, filling a whole Pentateuchs, my grateful expressions would still remain merely a Penumbra of my Debt of Gratitude.