Reflexions sur la critique.

F.F. ou le critique.

It was noticed in the Quarterly for April 1818, the very same number which contained the sneering critique of Endymion.

'Tis true, I should be glad, if I could persuade him to continue his good offices, and write such another critique on any thing of mine; for I find by experience he has a great stroke with the reader, when he condemns any of my poems, to make the world have a better opinion of them.

The first of these demands a critique of revelation, the second defends the right of free investigation, the third declares the religion of Christ, which is merely a revived natural religion, to be the oldest religion, the fourth reduces it entirely to moral life.

In 1796 he handed in to his instructor Fichte a critique of two of Schelling's treatises, in which the youthful thinker already broke away from idealism.

After carrying the question of the possibility of synthetic judgments a priori from the knowledge of nature over to the knowledge of our duty, Kant raises it, in the third place, in regard to our judgment concerning the subjective and objective purposiveness of things, or concerning their beauty and their perfection, and adds to his critique of the intellect and the will a critique of the faculty of aesthetic and teleological judgment.

For all history provides the material, literature the critique, biology the inexorable logic of the case against human nature.

Very rarely, when he has read a critique of me, he has handed it to me, saying, "You must read this."

He showed me a short critique he had written on Byron's "Cain," which I read with much interest.

DÉGAGER, retirer, faire sortir d'une position critique.

I have forgotten to tell you that Gifford tells me that he would receive, with every disposition to favour it, any critique which you like to send of new Scottish works.

RETURNS XVIII.FOOLISH HABITS XIX.THE CANDLE XX.-JOAN XXI.THE SWIMMING OF THE SAVERACK XXII.-DREW SMILES XXIII.THE COMEDY SETTING XXIV.-"SAM'L HALL" XXV.HAIR LIKE THE SUNSHINE XXVI.-"THE CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON" XXVII.THE STAGE XXVIII.-SALLY BREAKS

For here was, as I had anticipated, a critique on my first volume of poems.

He succeeded Hazlitt, (which was no insignificant honor,) and for some time contributed the critiques upon the theatres, but ended by being the reporter of the state of the money-market.

That they were not blinded to the defects of others, by his own inefficiency in dramatic composition, is fully proved by his judicious remarks on Cato, which was constructed on a plan similar to Irene: and the strongest censure, ever passed on this tragedy, was conveyed in Garrick's application of Johnson's own severe, but correct critique, on the wits of Charles, in whose works "Declamation roar'd, while passion slept.