Critic continued.

CRITIC.

A critic is like an idler amusing himself with a spy-glass; he looks at the defects of a work through the end that magnifies, then inverts the instrument to discover the virtues.-E. P. DAY.

The theatre is like a Turkish seraglio: The critics are the eunuchs. FARQUHAR.

The critics. . . like Cerberus, are posted at all the avenues of literature, and who settle the merits of every performance. GOLDSMITH.

A critic should be a pair of snuffers. He is oftener an extinguisher; and not seldom a thief. JULIUS C. HARE.

Critics are a kind of freebooters in the republic of letters, who, like deer, goats, and divers other graminivorous animals, gain their subsistance by gorging upon buds and leaves of the young shrubs of the forest, thereby robbing them of verdure, and retarding their progress to maturity. - WASHINGTON IRVING.

But some will say, Criticks are a kind of Tinkers, that make more faults than they mend ordinarily. - BEN JONSON.

The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's. WALTER S. LANDOR.

Critics, like surgeons, blest with curi

ous art,

Should mark each passage to the human heart;

But not, unskillful, yet with lordly air, Read surgeon's lectures while they scalp and tear.

- ROBERT LLOYD.

Some critics are like chimneysweepers; they put out the fire below, and frighten the swallows from the nests above; they scrape a long time in the chimney, cover themselves with soot, and bring nothing away but a bag of cinders, and then sing out from

A critic is a legless man who teaches running. - CHANNING POLLOCK.

Critics, like weather-cocks, are not infallible. LEWIS ROSENTHAL.

The eye of the critic is often, like a microscope, made so very fine and nice that it discovers the atoms, grains, and minutest particles, without ever comprehending the whole, comparing the parts, or seeing at once the harmony. - SWIFT.

A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are fewest bones. IBID.

Critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes. - SIR HENRY WOTTON.