450 Thus have I made my own opinions clear; Yet neither praise expect, nor censure fear: And this unpolish'd, rugged verse I chose, As fittest for discourse, and nearest prose: For while from sacred truth I do not swerve, Tom Sternhold's or Tom Shadwell's rhymes will serve.

I must add that Mrs. Browning's one bit of censure coincides as perfectly with my own judgment.

This is plainly slander, at least in degree, and according to the surplusage whereby the censure doth exceed the fault.

I resolved cooly to let the first gush of prepossession blow over, and the spring tide of censure exhaust itself.

Rochester so classed him: "I loathe the rabble: 'tis enough for me, If Sedley, Shadwell, Shephard, Wycherley, Godolphin, Butler, Buckhurst, Buckingham, And some few more, whom I omit to name, Approve my sense: I count their censure fame.

He says: "But this censure hath been long disused; and nothing of it appeareth in the laws of church or state since the reformation."

" "There are some nations," said Imlac, "that send few visitants to Palestine; for many numerous and learned sects in Europe concur to censure pilgrimage, as superstitious, or deride it as ridiculous.

None dare censure thee; God will accept thee.

The object of this novel is to satirize the state of literature in England, and to hold up to censure authors, editors, and publishers as profligate, selfish, and corrupt.

Shall not my fable censure vice, Because a knave is over-nice?