We should soon have no language at all if the unscrupulous coinage of the present day were allowed to pass, and become a precedent for the future.

One of the first duties of a Writer is to ask himself whether his thought, feeling, or image cannot be expressed by existing words or phrases, before he goes about creating new terms, even when they are justified by the analogies of the language.

'The cataract's steep flow' is both harsh and inaccurate: 'thou hast seen me bend over the cataract' would express one idea in simplicity and all that was required.

Had it been necessary to be more particular, 'steep flow' are not the words that ought to have been used.
I remember Campbell says in a composition that is overrun with faulty language, 'And dark as winter was the _flow_ of Iser rolling rapidly;' that is, 'flowing rapidly.' The expression ought to have been 'stream' or 'current...' These may appear to you frigid criticisms, but depend upon it no writings will live in which these rules are disregarded....
Female authorship is to be shunned as bringing in its train more and heavier evils than have presented themselves to your sister's ingenuous mind.

No true friend I am sure will endeavour to shake her resolution to remain in her own quiet and healthful obscurity.