criticks

[2] Dr. Johnson, I think, is a 'Thwackum' [3] amongst criticks; I allways look at him and his abilities with a mixture of reverence and anger. —

Letter 16 2009

In some other instances, the criticks have been equally wrong as to the true motive of my recording particulars, the objections to which I saw as clearly as they.

Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

I hope, however, the criticks will let me be at peace; for though I do not much fear their skill and strength, I am a little afraid of myself, and would not willingly feel so much ill-will in my bosom as literary quarrels are apt to excite.

Litblogging long before the internet Jenny Davidson 2006

But from the effect which a perusal of the tragedy here condemned had upon myself, and from the opinions of some eminent criticks.

Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

The criticks on ancient authours have, in the exercise of their sagacity, many assistances, which the editor of Shakespeare is condemned to want.

Preface to Shakespeare 2004

These elevations and depressions of renown, and the contradictions to which all improvers of knowledge must for ever be exposed, since they are not escaped by the highest and brightest of mankind, may surely be endured with patience by criticks and annotators, who can rank themselves but as the satellites of their authours.

Preface to Shakespeare 2004

We may reasonably suppose, that, when he rose to notice, he did not want the counsels and admonitions of scholars and criticks, and that he at last deliberately persisted in a practice, which he might have begun by chance.

Preface to Shakespeare 2004

It will be thought strange, that, in enumerating the defects of this writer, I have not yet mentioned his neglect of the unities; his violation of those laws which have been instituted and established by the joint authority of poets and of criticks.

Preface to Shakespeare 2004

His adherence to general nature has exposed him to the censure of criticks, who form their judgments upon narrower principles.

Preface to Shakespeare 2004

And Lipsius could complain, that criticks were making faults, by trying to remove them, Ut olim vitiis, ita nunc remediis laboratur.

Preface to Shakespeare 2004