Singular specimens of the Edinburgh practice of criticism.

Date:
1851
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Credit: Singular specimens of the Edinburgh practice of criticism. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    21 A M SINGULAR SPECIMENS I ^ t OF THE EDINBURGH PRACTICE OF CRITICISM. BY I JOHN JOSEPH GRIFFIN. “ This discoui'se scarcely presumes to spealc of criticism, as it now lives and flourishes. Much, however, of the pleasure of literature arises out of its skilful exercise. If there he in it little of the splenetic heart of a former century, there is abundance of untimely fimit, and confident fore- heads. Its defects are twofold,—a want of Modesty, and a want op Knowledge. A remedy for the fbrmer is to be found in the removal of the latter. The truest critic, like the deepest phflosopher, will produce his opinions as doubts. Only t_; astrologer and the empyric never fail.”—Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature, by the Rev. R. A. Willmott. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY JOHN J. GEIFFIN AND COMPANY, 53 BAKER-STREET, PORTMAN SQUARE ■, AND RICHARD GRIFFIN & CO., GLASGOW. 1851.