pen-pricking

Updated: June 3, 2025

But amateur theatricals stand for heart-burnings and jealousy. The German poets were scored, other writers ridiculed, and big scientists came in for their share of pen-pricking. Voltaire corrected the King's manuscript and taught him the secret of literary style.

Elbert Hubbard - Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8