2 Metaphors for criticks

The critick is the only man whose triumph is without another's pain, and whose greatness does not rise upon another's ruin.

"Criticks! be dumb tonightno Skill display; A dangerous Woman-Poet wrote the Play: ... Measure her Force, by her known Novels, writ With manly Vigour, and with Woman's wit.

2 Metaphors for  criticks