" No, not at all; but I shall be obliged, since you are up, if you will read me a few pages of Lowth" .
“不,一点也不;但是既然你起床了,我将不胜感激,如果你能给我读几页洛思的书的话。”
图解英语史(中)
Lowth was the main source of such " correct" grammar rules as a double negative always yields a positive, never end a sentence with a preposition and never split an infinitive.