There appears in it such a deadly spirit of revenge, such a savage fierceness and Fellness, and such a bloody designation of cruelty and mischief, as cannot agree either with the stile or characters of Comedy.
"Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare"
D. Nichol Smith
Walker, from whom Murray borrowed his rules for spelling, declares for an expulsion of the second l from traveller, gambolled, grovelling, equalling, cavilling, and all similar words; seems more willing to drop an l from illness, stillness, shrillness, Fellness, and drollness, than to retain both in smallness, tallness, chillness, dullness, and fullness; makes it one of his orthographical aphorisms, that, "Words taken into composition often drop those letters which were superfluous in their simples; as, Christmas, dunghil, handful;" and, at the same time, chooses rather to restore the silent e to the ten derivatives from move and prove, from which Johnson dropped it, than to drop it from the ten similar words in which that author retained it!
"The Grammar of English Grammars"
Goold Brown