A very learned Critick of our own Nation has declar’d, that a Sameness of Thought and Sameness of Expression too, in Two Writers of a different Age, can hardly happen, without a violent Suspicion of the Latter copying from his Predecessor.
That nice Critick Dionysius of Halicarnassus confesses, that he could not find those great Strokes, which he calls the terrible Graces, in any of the Historians, which he frequently met with in Homer.
But I have a Rigid Critick and a Severe Inquisitor to deal with--He will have a Satyr upon the true Deity, tho I intend nothing of it.
Let the nicest Critick examine the Story of Clarissa, and see if in any Point it fails of coming up exactly to the before-mentioned Rule.
The duty of a collator is indeed dull, yet, like other tedious tasks, is very necessary; but an emendatory critick would ill discharge his duty, without qualities very different from dulness.
Such is the triumphant language with which a critick exults over the misery of an irregular poet, and exults commonly without resistance or reply.
That a conjectural critick should often be mistaken, cannot be wonderful, either to others or himself, if it be considered that in his art there is no system, no principal and axiomatical truth that regulates subordinate positions.
But you think, Sir, that Warburton is a superiour critickto Theobald?
He was, indeed, a stern critick upon characters and manners.
Yet this Critick so sterne, But whom, none must discerne, Nor perfectly haue seeing, Strangely layes about him, As nothing without him Were worthy of being.
Accordingly, as the day began to decline, the Critick again appear'd; and opening his Book, pursued the Argument he had made some Progress in.
Yet if there is in nature a Method which pursued will be still more delightful, the Critick is to be observed who points out the Way thereto.
Suffer us, Sir, to recommend to your acquaintance, the famous Sir Tremendous, the greatest critick of our age.
If the learned Critick here means that "the general instruction of this part, viz.
Besides (continues the Critick in the true spirit of French gallantry) should we so heavily accuse the Poet for not having made an assembly of women keep a secret?
In this general summary, with which the Critick introduces his particular Commentary, a very material circumstance is acknowledged, which perhaps tends to render the system on which it proceeds extremely doubtful, if not wholly untenable.
In a long controversial note on this passage, the learned Critick abovementioned also explains the text thus.
The learned Critick seems here to believe, and the plays under the name of Seneca in some measure warrant the conclusion, that the Chorus of the Roman Stage was not calculated to answer the ends of its institution.
Aristotle indeed does not name Thespis, but we cannot but include his improvements among the changes, to which the Critick refers, before Tragedy acquired a permanent form under AEschylus.
De Nores has a comment on this passage; but the ambiguity of the Latin relative renders it uncertain, how far the Critick applies particularly to the Pisos, except by the Apostrophe taken notice of in the last note.
Just when I got in I tripped over some ribs of beef lying in the doorway, and before I had time to say I preferred my beef without any boot-blacking, I fell head-first against an immense sirloin on the parlour table.
Yet I cannot on the other side agree with Madam Dacier, who is at least even with Scaliger, by calling him the worst Critick in the World: Le plus mechant Critique du Monde, are the very Words she uses.
But waving That; Surely such an Account of Virgil's Fire was never given by any Critick before.
Swift, there is not much upon which the critick can exercise his powers.
They who lose their Hold do so from their own Want of Strength; but desiring to conceal their Weakness, they attribute the absence of Success to the first Critick that mentions them.
Te premet nox, fabulaeque manes"--Horace Of all the ghosts that have ever appeared on the stage, a very learned and judicious foreign critick gives the preference to this of our author.
I defy the sharpestcritick of them all to have known when any jokes of mine were coming.
For my own part I am so professed an Admirer of this antiquated Song, that I shall give my Reader a Critick upon it, without any further Apology for so doing.
He is likewise a wonderful Critick in Cambrick and Muslins, and will talk an Hour together upon a Sweet-meat.
The duty of a collator is indeed dull, yet, like other tedious tasks, is very necessary; but an emendatory critick would ill discharge his duty, without qualities very different from dullness.
He was a very distinguished scholar, long abroad, and during part of the time lived much with the learned Cuninghame, the opponent of Bentley as a critick upon Horace.
Your Prose so delicate, Your Verse so smooth and sweet, that they create A lovely Wonder in each Lover's Mind: The envious Critick dares not be unkind.
The essential problem of the Critick of the Practical Reason is almost diametrically different from that of the critick of the theoretical reason.
His critick of the arguments employed to prove the existence of a God, is essentially the following.
Since, then, freedom cannot be touched, a critick of the practical reason can only relate to these empirical motives, in the sense of divesting these from the claim of being exclusively the motives by which the will is determined.
The critick of the practical reason must, therefore, start from moral principles, and only after these are firmly fixed, may we inquire concerning the relation in which the practical reason stands to the sensory.
Such is the negative part of the Kantian philosophy; its positive complement is found in the "Critick of the Practical Reason.
The examination of the faculty of knowledge, which Kant attempts in his "Critick of Pure Reason," shows the following results.
Critick of practical reason, (3) Critick of the judgment.
Dogmatism had been critically annihilated by Kant; his Critick of pure Reason had for its result the theoretical indemonstrableness of the three ideas of the reason, God, freedom, and immortality.
Yet Jacobi essentially agrees with Kant's critick of the understanding.
No critick thwart, no mighty master teach; A Charm how mingled of the good and ill!
Dryden was much pleased with his own address in connecting the two plots of his Spanish Friar, which yet, I believe, the critick will find excelled by this play.
That a conjectural critick should often be mistaken, cannot be wonderful, either to others or himself, if it be considered, that in his art there is no system, no principal and axiomatical truth that regulates subordinate positions.
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