The great German dramatic critic, Schlegel, once sneered at the brothers Jacob and William Grimm, for what he styled their "meditation on the insignificant."

The interpretation of the critical terms used by the literary critics of the English renaissance must depend largely on the classical tradition.

In that prolific year, when week by week, almost day by day, fresh poems were thrown off with marvellous facilityas we see from his sister's Journalhe had become a severe, if not a fastidious, critic of his own earlier work.

The theorist must come forward with an affectation of modesty, as into the presence of competent critics; he must only expose his wares, win for himself a hearing, and then humbly wait for the placet of the sovereign people.

My friend A. Probably William Ayrton (1777-1818), the musical critic, one of the Burneys' whist-playing set, and a friend and correspondent of Lamb's. See the musical rhyming letter to him from Lamb, May 17, 1817.

" The eminent critic frowned grimly and took a fourth cream biscuit without noticing it.

I remember a friendly critic from Canada who, some five or six years ago, expressed to me, with much disquiet, his opinion that there was something very far wrong with the old country; that we had gone soft.

Some able critics, even among Europeans, had declared that Diaz, "the grand old man," was the greatest leader of the past century.

Many foreign critics, with minds blankly ignorant of nearly all the facts, seemed to think that the whole business could be accounted for by a few glib phrases about German and Socialist propaganda, or the supposed lack of fighting qualities in the Italian race.

Indeed, during the entire English renaissance there was no professional critic.

This is an unusual triumph for a contemporary critic, sitting in judgment on an author of an entirely new school and rendering a decision in opposition to that of the majority, who, he says, "have made it a business to attack and ridicule Mr. Wordsworth...

The agitation thus originated ended in the rupture of a blood-vessel in the lungs; a rapid consumption ensued; and the succeeding acknowledgments, from more candid critics, of the true greatness of his powers, were ineffectual to heal the wound thus wantonly inflicted.

"His poetry," says a distinguished critic who is neither Irish nor Catholic, "is soulful and sweet, and sings itself into the heart of anyone who has a bit of sentiment in his make-up."

Their army, like every impartial critic, found it in 'the Commissioners and the smallpox'with the commissioners easily first.

With less philosophical basis these fundamental differences were maintained by nearly all the classical literary critics.

This discovery was reserved for the more acute critic of modern times, who, by a happiness of conjecture unknown to the ancients, and the assistance of a good index, can in a few days penetrate the meaning of the profoundest writer of antiquity, and bid defiance even to the decision of Longinus.

Many ardent Christians believe in its general principles to-day; but at first it was bitterly attacked by orthodox and conservative critics.

It has been found on inquiry, that the suggestion of this judicious critic is fully confirmed.

The justice of this naming has always been and still remains a matter of warm dispute among historical critics.

Perhaps they merited some censure, but surely they did not merit the censures heaped on them by hostile critics like Thiers, Henri Valois, and the Franciscan, Cavalli.

Thomas Bentley, the son of Richard Bentley, the celebrated critic, had written a play called 'The Wishes;' and during the summer of 1761 it was acted at Drury Lane, and met with the especial approbation of George III., who sent the author, through Lord Bute, a present of two hundred guineas as a tribute to the good sentiments of the production.

In that prolific year, when week by week, almost day by day, fresh poems were thrown off with marvellous facilityas we see from his sister's Journalhe had become a severe, if not a fastidious, critic of his own earlier work.

He had no sceptical or rationalistic tendencies, and therefore his Commentaries may not be admired by men of "advanced thought," but his annotations will live when those of Ewald shall be forgotten; they still hold their place in the libraries of biblical critics.

You mean that they have too many harsh TV critics?" "No.

However, keeping straight on, we came in view of the river's bank and to this we kept, recrossing by the railway bridge below, and then back by the fields home, completing a round none the less pleasant because a captious critic might have called it trespassing.