Careful Words

incapable (adj.)

  Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony; but organically I am incapable of a tune.

Charles Lamb (1775-1834): A Chapter on Ears.

  The whole [Scotch] nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it.

Horace Walpole (1717-1797): Letter to Sir Horace Mann, 1778.

Th' ethereal mould

Incapable of stain would soon expel

Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire,

Victorious. Thus repuls'd, our final hope

Is flat despair.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 139.