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... critic . He is to be guided by candour , modesty , sincerity , and good- breeding . The character of the impertinent critic and the good critic are drawn in succession , and the poem ends with a survey of the history of criticism and ...
... critic . He is to be guided by candour , modesty , sincerity , and good- breeding . The character of the impertinent critic and the good critic are drawn in succession , and the poem ends with a survey of the history of criticism and ...
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... critic and the angry author . Sydney Smith , well known for his remarkable wit and humour , was associated with Jeffreys in the work of The Edinburgh Review , for which he suggested the motto : “ We cultivate literature on a little ...
... critic and the angry author . Sydney Smith , well known for his remarkable wit and humour , was associated with Jeffreys in the work of The Edinburgh Review , for which he suggested the motto : “ We cultivate literature on a little ...
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... critic , singularly modest in pronouncing opinion in an age when nearly all prose - writers set up for authoritative critics in literary matters . Another essayist of the " Cockney School " was William Hazlitt . He wrote a large number ...
... critic , singularly modest in pronouncing opinion in an age when nearly all prose - writers set up for authoritative critics in literary matters . Another essayist of the " Cockney School " was William Hazlitt . He wrote a large number ...
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